Shipboard Electrical Power Systems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367430351)

Mukund R. Patel, Ph.D., P.E., is a professor of engineering at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, USA, and has served as a 3M McKnight Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He has over 50 years of hands-on involvement in research, development, and design of the state-of-the-art electrical power equipment and systems. He has held positions as principal engineer at General Electric, fellow engineer at the Westinghouse Research & Development Center, senior staff engineer at Lockheed Martin Corporation, and development manager at Bharat Bijlee (Siemens) Limited. He has been teaching short courses in electrical power systems for American Society of Naval Engineers since 2012.

Dr. Patel obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electric Power Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, and his M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Pittsburgh. He also received an M.E. in Electrical Machine Design from Gujarat University, and a B.E. from Sardar University, India.

Tanuj Khandelwal, MSEE is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Principal Electrical Engineer at ETAP - Operation Technology, Inc. in Irvine, California, USA. He has about 20 years of involvement in engineering system analysis and design of ETAP state-of-the-art electrical power system analysis software. Mr. Khandelwal obtained his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach and his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bombay University, India.