Anjan Bose
At Washington State University, Professor Anjan Bose holds the endowed Distinguished Professorship in Power Engineering, and is the Site Director of the NSF-sponsored Power System Engineering Research Center. From 1998 to 2005, he served as the Dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture, which has about 150 faculty, 75 staff members, and 2,500 students over four campuses. During that period, the college doubled its annual research expenditures and donations while the state and tuition budgets decreased. From 1993 to 1998, he was the Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which is the largest unit in the college. Bose is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and has served on several NAE/NRC Committees. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is active in several international professional societies. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award (1994), the Third Millennium Medal (2000), and the Herman Halperin Electric Transmission & Distribution Award (2006) from the IEEE. He has been recognized as a distinguished alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2005) and the College of Engineering at Iowa State University (1993).
