Prof. Philip T. Krein, Executive Dean of ZJUI, holds the Grainger Endowed Emeritus Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics and is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics, UIUC. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He published an undergraduate textbook, Elements of Power Electronics (Oxford University Press, second edition 2015). In 2001, he helped initiate the International Future Energy Challenge, a major student competition involving fuel cell power conversion and energy efficiency. He holds 42 U.S. patents with additional patents pending.
Prof. Krein is a registered professional engineer in Illinois and in Oregon. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2003 received the IEEE William E. Newell Award in Power Electronics. He is a past President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and past Chair of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.