“A Career Path from 30,000 Feet Above”

A lecture by Manoj Shah, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric

In this seminar, we will consider: 

This presentation will be a “fly over” through Dr. Shah’s 34+ years of professional (technical and academic) journey. “I will highlight the variety of topics/subjects I dealt with as an electrical engineer and how one learns to work with a multidisciplinary mindset solving complex and challenging problems while learning key elements of other technical areas such as mechanical (structures & dynamics), material—metallic (magnetic & non-magnetic), & non-metallics—insulation and composites, thermal + fluid dynamics, system integration, customer specifications/constraints, applicable standards, and so on.”

About Dr. shah

Manoj R. Shah is a Life Fellow of IEEE (2016) and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2022). He received B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and MSEE & PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. He is presently a consultant to General Electric Aerospace Research (GEAR) in Advanced Electric Machines. He served as a Professor of Practice at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Troy, New York from 2017 to 2021. Prior to that he worked as Principal Engineer at General Electric Global Research Center (GE-GRC) from 1999 to 2016 until retiring and various GE businesses from 1981 to 1999. Before joining GE, he spent 16 months as a postdoctoral research fellow at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. After completing research work for his PhD, he worked for Westinghouse Electric Company, Pittsburgh, PA, from 1978 to 1980. He received the IEEE-IAS’s Gerald B. Kliman Innovation award (2015) & IEEE’s Nikola Tesla award (2012), GE-Research’s Coolidge Fellowship award (2012), and GE-Power’s Outstanding Achievement award (1991). He has authored or co-authored 90 US (mostly in the electric machines and systems area) and many foreign patents along with over 50 technical publications; some receiving prize paper awards.