I run a research center at Iowa State University in power engineering, focusing especially on renewable energy integration at all scales, from microgrids to North-American system wide planning. I would like to encourage your physics graduates to come to ISU and join the power program, initially for M.S. degrees, but encouraging them to pursue a PhD. We need more physics majors in power/energy systems engineering. The research we do here in the power/energy systems group really is changing the world, and I believe that physics students from strong liberal arts colleges would find a challenging and very rewarding path by doing graduate work in our program.
My daughter graduated with an undergrad degree in Physics, and I’ve seen her thrive in a graduate engineering program—actually it was easy after the rigors of physics training. This is partly why I really want to bring physics majors into power engineering.
With best wishes
Anne
Anne Kimber, P.E., Ph.D.,
Director, Electric Power Research Center
akimber@iastate.edu
Office phone: 515 294-7678
Mobile phone: 515 291-4378