Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Miroslav M. Begovic head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. The appointment is effective Jan. 5, 2015.
Begovic currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Electrical Energy Technical Interest Group at Georgia Institute of Technology and is an affiliated faculty member of the Brooks Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems and the University of Excellence on Photovoltaic Research.
Begovic received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1989.
Begovic’s research interests lie in wide area monitoring, protection and emergency control using smart grid apparatus; sustainable and resilient energy infrastructures; and managing large assets in energy infrastructure. He has participated in several collaborative research projects for the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, resulting in more than $10 million of funding in collaborative research over the last five years.
Begovic is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Power and Energy (PES), Computer, and Circuits and Systems Societies. In 2011 he was elected president of PES. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer and a member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi.
Begovic has published approximately 200 journal and conference papers and has presented nearly 100 keynote speeches, invited talks and presentations.