School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

WSU developing distributed apps for smart power grid

By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University is part of a $3.5 million U.S. Department of Energy project to create software applications for the smart electric power grid.

WSU, Zurich university launch double master’s degree

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Switzerland have launched an international, double master’s degree program designed to graduate globally educated professionals to assume leadership positions in technology-driven, multinational corporations.

Schweitzer gift in memory of powerful professor Flechsig

By Marissa Mararac, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – In honor of a fondly remembered professor, Edmund Schweitzer and Schweitzer Engineering Lab are making donations of $100,000 each to the Alfred and Nancy Flechsig Fund for Laboratory Improvement at Washington State University.

Engineering student places second in international competition

By Zahra Debbek, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University’s Pawan Agarwal recently received a second place award for his student paper from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Researchers receive grant to improve electric power grid

The electric power grid and electronic communications are increasingly intertwined and interconnected as part of our complex 21st century United State infrastructure. But, when an extreme event like a large snowstorm or hurricane brings down part of the network, it’s pretty clear what can happen: chaos.

Sankar Jayaram named a ‘Top Idea Innovator’

  Sankar Jayaram Uma Jayaram PULLMAN, Wash. – Sankar (Jay) Jayaram, professor in Washington State University’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and affiliate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been recognized as one of 15 “Top Idea Innovators’’ by Sports Business Journal, an influential national magazine for sports industry […]

WSU prof named fellow of Int’l Federation of Automatic Control

PULLMAN, Wash. – Electrical engineering professor Ali Saberi was recently elected as a fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control. According to the IFAC website, the Fellow Award is given to people who have made outstanding contributions to the automatic control field. Saberi was selected as a fellow for “fundamental contributions to robust control, […]

Graduate student receives top poster award

Chanda PULLMAN, Wash. – Sayonsom Chanda, a graduate student in Washington State University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded a prize in the July 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society’s student poster contest. With his poster, entitled ‘Modeling and Analysis of Campus Microgrid Distribution System, Chanda received […]

Grant aims to increase smart grid workforce

Chen-Ching Liu, left, with students in his lab. PULLMAN, Wash. – With a dramatic need for engineers to build a smart electric power grid, the National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Washington State University for scholarship support for undergraduate and master’s students in electric power engineering. The $640,000 grant will provide19 student scholarships […]

Research, students make a difference

Anjan Bose, a Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on safeguarding the security of the power grid. When a blackout occurred in the Northeast and portions of the Midwest in 2003, 50 million people were affected, economic losses were […]