Eminent Faculty Award
Anjan Bose
Regents Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Eminent Faculty 2008
With more than 40 years of experience in industry and academia, Dr. Anjan Bose is widely respected as a technical leader in the power grid control industry, a researcher in electric power engineering, an educator in engineering, and an administrator in higher education.
Dr. Bose is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and received the IEEE 1994 Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, the 2000 Third Millenium Medal, and the 2006 Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award. He has been recognized as a distinguished alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology and of the College of Engineering at Iowa State University.
At Washington State University, Dr. Bose holds the endowed Distinguished Professorship in Power Engineering, and is the Site Director of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Power System Engineering Research Center. From 1998 to 2005, he served as dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture. During that period, the college doubled its annual research expenditures and donations while respective state and tuition budgets decreased.