Dr. Manoj Shah

This will be a journey from my first employment with Westinghouse Electric Company to RPI to GE retirement) to RPI to GE & FSU after having moved to Florida! I will show a variety of projects I have worked on during my industrial career as well as courses I taught in academia. I will be happy to keep some time for Q & A at the end.

Biography:

Prof. Shah is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He received B.Tech. (Honors) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and MS & Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He retired as a Principal Engineer from GE’s Global Research Center after 34 years (1982-2016). He mainly worked on electrical machines and their integration with systems. He has received 90 US and many foreign patents with several pending and authored/co-authored over 50 IEEE technical papers; a few have been prized papers. He became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

He has received the 2015 IEEE-IAS Kliman Innovation award, 2012 GE-GRC Coolidge Fellowship award (Highest companywide research award), 2012 IEEE Nikola Tesla award (Highest International award in Electric Power) and 1991 GEEnergy’s Most Outstanding Contribution award. He was a professor at RPI, Troy, NY where he taught Electric Power related courses from 2017 to 2021. He rejoined GE Research in 2021 as a consultant. After moving to Florida in mid-2022, he joined Florida State University as a Distinguished professor of engineering while continuing consulting for GE Research. He also consults for other industries as well and teaches a one-day session in electric machines within a weeklong Hybrid Vehicle Technology short course offered by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).