The Department of Electrical  and Computer Engineering is the largest and one of the oldest academic units within the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU). Housed in the 95,000 square foot Simrall Building, the Department includes 28 faculty members, 12 administrative and research support staff members, and typically 650 students. The electric power system, controls and high voltage engineering group is one of the major emphasis areas within the department including 6 faculty.  Located in the Simrall Building, High Voltage Lab (HVL) is the largest independent high voltage laboratory in the U.S.  MSU is in the top 5 funded power programs at land grant institutions within the U.S. The group has over 30 full time graduate students and approximately 10-15 part-time graduate students. 

     The Ph.D. and Masters research work will primarily be related to the power system operation and control, distributed generation, cyber-physical system as well as electric ship (e-ship) power system. Students with background in MATLAB/Simulink, C++, Labview, RSCAD, VTB, dSPACE, CAPE, or PSS/E will be preferred.  
     Send your resume and statement of research with detailed academic background to Barbara Matta (barbara@ece.msstate.edu).  For further information on admission to MSU please browse through (http://www.admissions.msstate.edu/ ) or (http://www.msstate.edu/dept/grad/ )