Balda Named Head of Electrical Engineering
Juan Balda, University Professor of electrical engineering, has been named head of that department. Balda will serve in this position through June of 2017. Balda has served as interim department head from September 2009 to August 2012, and recently has been serving as interim department head since July 2013.
“I am so pleased that Dr. Balda has agreed to take on this position,” said John English, dean of the College of Engineering, “He has provided excellent leadership in electrical engineering over the past few years, and I have full confidence that he will lead the department to the next level.”
Balda received a bachelor’s degree from the Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahía Blanca, Argentina in 1979. He then worked for two and one-half years at Hidronor S.A., an electric utility in the Southwestern part of Argentina. He received a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa in 1986. He was then employed as a researcher and a part-time lecturer at the University of Natal. He then spent two years as a visiting assistant professor at Clemson University, South Carolina, before coming to the University of Arkansas in 1989.
Balda’s main research interests are power electronics, electric power distribution systems, motor drives and electric power quality. Balda focuses on renewable energy sources and ways to store these and integrate them into the power grid.
He is a senior member of the Institute of Electronical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the Power Electronics and Industry Applications Societies, and a member the honor society Eta Kappa Nu. He is a faculty advisor to the IEEE Power Electronics Society branch.
Contacts
Camilla Medders, director of communications
College of Engineering
479-575-5697,
camillam@uark.edu
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