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The Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University is seeking applicants for the position of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Electrical Engineering. The Department has a particular interest in applicants with expertise in power electronics for the EE position. The Holcombe Department of ECE is one of the largest and most active departments in Clemson University, with 34 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, approximately 600 undergraduates and 190 graduate students. Annual research expenditures exceed $13 million.

Members of the faculty include five IEEE Fellows, four endowed chairs, and six named professors. The ECE department offers ABET-accredited B.S. programs in electrical engineering and computer engineering along with M.S. and Ph.D. programs in both disciplines. The College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences (CECAS) at Clemson University is continuing to build a strong international presence in the power and energy area. With significant laboratory facilities on the main Clemson campus, the ICAR campus in Greenville and the Clemson University Restoration Institute (CURI) campus in North Charleston, there are tremendous opportunities to advance research in the power and energy area.

Clemson University researchers in the power and energy area, in addition to having a diverse expertise in the focus area, have a strong presence in automotive, aerospace, maritime, and terrestrial applications and receive diversified funding from, DoE, DOD, NSF, NASA, industry and utilities. With respect to this position, Clemson University seeks a tenure track faculty member in the area of power electronics for its CURI campus. CURI houses a $98M power facility initiated in 2009 from a $45M Department of Energy grant. The facility includes the Dominion Energy Innovation Center which contains the world’s most-advanced wind-turbine drivetrain testing facility capable of full-scale highly accelerated mechanical and electrical testing of advanced drivetrain systems for wind turbines. The Dominion Energy Innovation Center also houses the Duke Energy Electrical Grid Research Innovation and Development (eGRID) Center, a facility with real-time simulation and 20MVA hardware-in-the-loop capability. The main campus includes state-of-the-art real-time simulation facilities for research in intelligent control of the: electric grid, maritime ship power systems, and automotive energy systems. Additionally, Clemson University has a thriving undergraduate and graduate emphasis in power and energy systems.

More information regarding the energy systems area can be found at: https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/ece/research/energy.html and for the CURI campus at: https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/charleston/about/index.html. Although all areas of applied power electronics (e.g., power electronic converters, devices and applications in power systems) will be considered, a verified focus on renewable energy integration is a plus. This position will be open to applicants at all ranks.