PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:
- Electric Power Systems
- Theory and Applications of System Reliability
- Production Costing
- Power Quality
EXPERIENCE:
Educational
- Regents Professor, Irma Runyon Chair Professor, 2007-Present
- Regents Professor, J.W. Runyon Professor September 2005- Jan 2007
- Professor & Head, Electrical & Computer Engineering, May 1997- August 2005
- Professor & Director, Electric Power Institute, 1992-1997.
- Professor & Associate Head, Electrical Engineering, Texas A& M University, College Station, Texas, 1986-1992.
- Professor, Electrical Engineering, Texas A& M University, College Station, TX, September 1984 - 1986
- Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Texas A& M University, College Station, TX, September 1981 - September 1984
- Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 1978 - August 1981
Government
- Director, Power Systems Program at the National Science Foundation, 1995-1996. Managed a program of about four million dollars and designed and implemented a new initiative, “Innovative Power Education in a Changing Environment”.
Industrial
- Vice President, Associated Power Analysts, Inc., 1980-Present
- Senior Research Officer, Research & Development Division, Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communication, Canada, July 1973- September 1978
Consultant
- Central Electrical Agency, India
- Edmonton Power, Canada
- Electric Reliability Council of Texas
- Electric Power Research Institute
- Eletrobrass, Brazil
- ESKOM, South Africa
- General Electric Co.
- Houston Lighting & Power Co.
- Korea Electric Power Co.
- Korea Power Exchange
- Korea Power Systems Reliability Research Center
- Manitoba Hydro, Canada
- MCI Communications
- Mid Continent Area Power Pool
- Ministry of Transportation & Communications, Ontario, Canada
- Power Comp Associates Ltd, Saskatoon, Canada
- Sandia National Labs
- Saskatchewan Power Corporation, Regina, Canada
- SOHIO, ARCO & EXXON
- Stone and Webster
- Taiwan Power Corporation
- Texas Utilities
- Urban Transportation Development Corporation, Ltd., Kingston, Ontario, Canada
HONORS & AWARDS:
External Awards
- IEEE Power Engineering Society, “Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award”, 1998
- Doctor of Science, “For research contributions", by the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, May 1997
- IEEE/PES Outstanding Working Group Award – 1997
- IEEE/PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award for “Pooling Generating Unit Data for Improved Estimates of Performance Indices,” 1997
- Elected Fellow of IEEE for ``Contributions to Theory and Applications of Quantitative Reliability Methods in Electric Power Systems’’, 1991
- Ross Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada for the best Electrical Engineering paper for 1972, ``The Frequency and Duration Method of Generating Capacity Reliability Evaluation'', Transactions of EIC, Vol. 15, No. C-1, March 1972.
- Gold Medal of the Punjab University for being the overall top most student in all branches of engineering and in all affiliated colleges in the graduating class.
- Gold Medal of the Punjab Engineering College, for the top-most student in Electrical Engineering.
Internal Awards
- Distinguished Electrical Engineering Professor, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Student Chapter, 2004. I was told this was a special award by the student chapter given for the first time.
- Appointed to J.W. Runyon, jr. ’35 Professorship II
- Named Texas A&M System Regents Professor, Texas A&M System, December 2001.
- Awarded the Texas A&M Former Student’s Association, University Level Distinguished Award in Research (Highest university award in research), TAMU, 1997.
- Dresser Professorship, for excellence in research and education 1992-1993.
- Halliburton Professorship for excellence in research and education, 1986--1987.
- Senior TEES Fellow, for excellence in research 1989-present.
- TEES Fellow, for excellence in research 1987-89.
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES:
- Registered Professional Engineer, State of Texas
EDITORSHIP:
- Editorial Advisory Board, Microelectronics & Reliability, Pergamon Press Editorial Board (1978-1996)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Electric Machines and Power Systems
- Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (IJEEPS)
- Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
SIGNIFICANT FUNDED PROJECTS
PI/Co-PI of about 40 funded research projects.
Visit : http://www.ee.tamu.edu/People/bios/singh/index.htm
TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS:
Four books, three book chapters, more than 125 journal papers and about 150 conference papers and agency published reports.
Visit: http://www.ee.tamu.edu/People/bios/singh/index.htm
COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
- Developer of GRIP. This program has been used by major power utilities in USA and Canada.
- Developer of NARP. This program has been used by ERCOT and others. It is a multi-area Monte Carlo simulation program for reliability studies.
- Developer of EPRI sponsored software OPCON that explicitly recognizes unit duty cycle and operating considerations in generating capacity reliability studies.
- Developer of EPRI sponsored software OPRINS which explicitly recognizes operating considerations in multi-area reliability studies.
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