Scholarship graduate program at West Virginia University

Advanced Power and Electricity Research Center in Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University (WVU) is seeking research assistants with competitive monthly stipends starting in January 2010/August 2010. Students with good academic records and research interests matching the below listed broad areas in power systems are encouraged to apply for Ph.D. and Masters degrees.

1. Smart grids
2. FACTS
3. Power System Control
4. Power System Stability
5. Power System Optimization
6. Intelligent Applications in Power Systems

The Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering has 33 tenure-track faculty members, 420 undergraduates, and 300 graduate students. The department offers BS degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Biometric Systems; offers Masters degrees in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Electrical Engineering; and offers Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. The Department conducts approximately $5.5 million annually in externally sponsored research, with major research activities in the areas of biometric systems, bioengineering, information assurance, nanotechnology, power systems, software engineering, virtual environments, and wireless networks. The department is aggressively upgrading its laboratory facilities, including a recently completed 4000 square foot clean room facility. The Department is home to a university-wide interdisciplinary research center, the Advanced Power & Electricity Research Center (www.aperc.wvu.edu).

WVU is a comprehensive land grant institution of over 26,000 students with medical, law, and business schools. The University has Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive standing. The Department has a close working relationship with, and receives funding from, a growing list of government and industry sources such as DOE, DOD, NASA, NIOSH, and the FBI Fingerprint Identification Center .

WVU located in Morgantown is in close proximity to Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Washington DC, Columbus (Ohio), Richmond (Virginia), Raleigh (North Carolina), Knoxville (Tennessee) and within 400 miles of New York.

Send your resume and statement of research with detailed academic background (preferably by email) to:

Dr. Sarika Khushalani Solanki
Assistant Professor
Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
West Virginia University
835 ESB, P O Box 6109
Morgantown , WV 26506-6109
304-293-9142, 304-293-8602 (fax)
Sarika.Khushalani-Solanki@ mail.wvu.edu
http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~s khushalani-solanki/

For further information on admissions to WVU please browse through http://www.arc.wvu.edu/
http://www.admissions.wvu. edu/ and http://www.graduateeducati on.wvu.edu/

For information on research work, go through
http://www.aperc.wvu.edu/ and power faculty webpage available at http://www.lcsee.cemr.wvu. edu/faculty/index.php

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
Dr. Sarika Khushalani Solanki