Monday, March 3, 2008

Scholarships in Electrical Power Engineering

Power and High Voltage Research Group in Electrical and Computer
Engineering (ECE) Department at Mississippi State University (MSU)
seeking research assistants with monthly stipends of $1350- $1900
starting in Summer 2008/August 2008/January 2009. Students with good
academic records and research interest are encouraged to apply for
Ph.D. and Masters degrees. Power, Control and High Voltage Research
Group at MSU are top 5 funded power program among land grant
universities in the USA according to the 2005-2006 IEEE Power
Engineering Society Committee report

(http://powerlearn.ee.iastate.edu/survey/pdf/resources05-06.pdf).

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is the largest
and one of the oldest academic units within the Bagley College of
Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU). Housed in the
95,000 square foot Simrall Building, the Department includes 28
faculty members, 12 administrative and research support staff
members, and typically 650 students. The power, control and high
voltage engineering group is one of the major emphasis areas within
the department including 5 faculty. Located in the Simrall Building,
the High Voltage Lab (HVL) is the largest independent high voltage
laboratory in the U.S.

The Ph.D. and Masters research work will be related to the one of
ongoing major project works related to i) Electric ship power
system, ii) Wide area monitoring of electric grid, iii) Integration
of distributed generation into the power grid. Send your resume and
statement of research with detailed academic background to Barbara
Matta (barbara@ece.msstate.edu) with cc to me. For further
information on admission to MSU please browse through
http://www.admissions.msstate.edu/ and
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/grad/. For information on research work,
go through http://www.ece.msstate.edu/research/eship and power
faculty webpage available at
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/people/listing.php.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
Anurag
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Dr. Anurag K Srivastava
Assistant Research Professor
412 Simrall Hall, 406 Hardy Road, P O Box 9571
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
srivastava@ece.msstate.edu
Phone: 662-325-3658
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~srivastava/