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Regents Professor Anjan Bose has received a lifetime achievement award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Engineering Society (IEEE-PES). He was recognized for his pioneering contributions to automation and control of power grid operations, training, and education. The lifetime award recognizes power engineers who have made career-long contributions in the field.
Bose has been involved in research on the electric power grid for more than 50 years, first in industry as an engineer and then in academia. He has been a member of the Washington State University (WSU) faculty since 1993 where he is the Distinguished Professor of Electric Power Engineering.
“When one is recognized for the success of a long and varied career, I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the dozens of individuals who helped in making it possible and their caring and belief in me I can cherish all my life,” he said.
Bose developed training simulators and computational tools to improve the reliability of the power system, and his research in the operation and control of the power grid led to major breakthroughs in power system control technology that are used in the industry, including better computer controls of electric generation and transmission systems to avoid blackouts. The computer simulator that he developed is used to train power grid operators all over the world. He also has served on teams that studied large power outages on the East Coast and in the Midwest to prevent similar events in the future.
In addition to his research, Bose was the director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and then dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture from 1998 to 2005. He also served as a senior advisor in 2005 for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, providing expertise on market oversight and grid reliability, and as a senior advisor to the Undersecretary of Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy during the Obama administration in 2012.
He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian and the Chinese National Academy of Engineering. He was a founding member of the Washington Academy of Sciences and also received WSU’s Eminent Faculty Award, WSU’s highest faculty award, in 2008.
He has won numerous awards, including the Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, the Third Millenium Medal, and the Herman Halperin Electric Transmission & Distribution Award from the IEEE. He has also been named a distinguished alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the College of Engineering at Iowa State University.
“Anjan has done tremendous work over his long career to improve the reliability of the electric power grid, from helping to understand and prevent big outages to training grid operators in best practices,” said Partha Pande, dean of the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.
Bose will be recognized at the IEEE-PES annual meeting on July 29 in Austin, Texas.
