James S. Thorp, the Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering, has accepted reappointment as director of the School of Electrical Engineering for three years, beginning July 1. The reappointment was made by John Hopcroft, dean of the College of Engineering.
Thorp, who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1962, has been director of the school since 1994. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1996 and currently serves as an editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.
His current research concerns the protection and control of large-scale power systems, including algorithms for digital protection, adaptive relaying and real-time control of power systems using measurements obtained from microprocessor relays and global positioning systems. He also studies the complicated dynamical behavior of power systems, including the generation of fractals by such systems.
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