Pittsburgh Section

 

Dr. Gregory Reed is the newly appointed Director of the Power & Energy Initiative in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and an Associate Professor in the Swanson School’s Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.  As the first director of the new Power & Energy Initiative, Dr. Reed will provide the vision and leadership for the Swanson School of Engineering’s multidisciplinary activities for the initiative’s educational, research, and outreach components.  He will work closely with industry partners, federal and state agencies, foundations, and other constituents in collaboration with the Swanson School’s faculty and staff and the university’s Center for Energy on various funding and research oriented efforts.  Dr. Reed will also teach courses in the fields of power and energy engineering within the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.  His research interests include power transmission & distribution and energy systems; power electronics and control technologies and applications; energy storage technologies; and power generation and renewable energy resources.

 

Prior to his appointment at Pitt, Dr. Reed served as senior vice president of the Power System Planning and Management Group at KEMA, an international company providing power and energy consulting, technology implementation and market knowledge expertise.  He will continue to serve in an executive consultant role for KEMA.

Dr. Reed has 23 years of industry and academic experience in the power and energy arena. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 papers and technical articles in the areas of electric power system analysis and the applications of power systems technologies.  He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power & Energy Society, as well as a member of the American Society for Engineering Education. 

 

Dr. Reed earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering with a concentration in electric power from the University of Pittsburgh; his Masters of Engineering in electric power engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and his B.S. in electric power engineering from Gannon University.