Georgia Institute of Technology Electric Power Group Recruting

Dear prospective students:

I am a Tsinghua Alumna and graduated with my PhD degree from the Electric Power Group at Georgia Institute of Technology. Because of the continuous excellent performance of Chinese students in this group during recent years, our professors have showed great interests in recruiting students from Tsinghua University and other top Chinese universities. They have requested me to help them recruit top students targeting for Fall 2010.

Georgia Tech is one of the nation's toppest research univeristies, particularly engaged in advancing engineering and technology. The main campus is located in Atlanta, the heart of the southeast state with a large Chinese community. Three remote campus are in Savannah Georgia, Lorraine France, and Shanghai China. Georgia Tech's graduate engineering program ranks top 5 and with electrical engineering ranks no.5 by the US World Report. The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is the largest ECE department in the nation with 10 technical areas, more than 130 full-time professors, 5 NAE members, and 32 IEEE Fellows. The Electric Power Group is one of the best in the state with 7 professors, 6 being IEEE fellows. Their research areas span from traditional areas such as electrical machines, power electrics, power systems to emerging areas such as smart grid, renewable energy, etc.

This recruiting request is sent specially from the following two professors who work very closely together.

Dr. Ronald Harley, Professor, IEEE Fellow, http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/fac_profiles/bio.php?id=43
- Power system stability and control, including Flexible AC Systems (FACTS)devices
- Power electronics, motor drives and electric vehicles
- Neural networks applied to power electronics and electrical machines

Dr. Thomas Habetler, Professor, IEEE Fellow, http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/fac_profiles/bio.php?id=41

- Current-based condition monitoring of electric machines
- Control of electric machine drives
- Power electronics
- Design and protection of electric machines


Financial Assistantships: > $1,600/month for 12 months, > $1900/month for 12 months after PhD preliminary exam. Plus full tuition waiver.

Required and Preferred Background:
1) Must show STRONG interests in any of the above research areas and STRONGLY committed to completion of a PhD degree.
2) Must have proven excellent coursework record in power electronics, machines, power systems, and advanced mathematics (at least top 20% in the department).
3) Must have demonstrated excellent research and self-study ability through research-oriented projects. Publications in either English or Chinese are a big plus.
3) If target for Fall 2010, applicants must have already submitted complete application materials and met the school deadlines.
4) Must speak GOOD spoken English.
5) Must be familiar with Matlab/Simulink. Good experience in FEA, analog/digital circuit design, Labview/NI data acquisition tools, and strong programming skills are a plus.
6) Applicants with incoming MS degree are strongly preferred. However, undergraduates with exceptional coursework record and research experience are also encouraged.
7) A relatively diversified background in controls, signal processing, intelligent methods, sensors, or related area is a plus.
8) Previous research experience in neural networks (applied to electric systems), electric machines condition monitoring (diagnostics & prognostics), and renewable energy is a big plus.

If you are both interested and qualified, please send your most recent resume (with phone number), transcripts, and any other useful supporting materials to me DIRECTLY at Dr. Bin Lu ( binlu@ieee.org ). For the sake of the most responsive processing, please DO NOT send your materials directly to the professors. After reviewing the materials, selected candidates will be phone interviewed.

Best regards,

Bin Lu, Ph.D.
Eaton Innovation Center