On April 20, NC State Global hosted its annual Global Engagement Exposition to celebrate finalists and recipients of the Outstanding Global Engagement Award, Jackson Rigney Service Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award. You can watch a recording of the awards ceremony here.
The Outstanding Global Engagement Award encourages and recognizes exceptional accomplishment in globally engaged teaching, research, extension, and/or engagement and economic development. Finalists have a well-established and ongoing record of international activities while working at NC State, going above and beyond regular job responsibilities. In 2022, 9 applications were received and 6 award recipients were selected.
Among the 6 award recipients is ECE Professor, Mo-Yuen Chow. Dr. Chow is a leader in the international engagement programs of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an internationally recognized researcher. Dr. Chow has been diligently and tirelessly engaging global communities to collaborate and share his passion for energy management technologies to provide reliable and sustainable energy systems in developing countries around the world. His energy-enhancing technologies are being put to practice here at home and in international companies such as Huawei, Total, and Samsung. Since 2008, Dr. Chow has been actively engaged in partnerships with Zhejiang University (ZJU) in Hangzhou, China where he was a visiting Chang Jiang Chair Professor from 2010 to 2013 and has been the visiting Qiushi Chair Professor since 2015. He often hosts visiting ZJU scholars and students here at NC State, and arranges for NC State students to visit ZJU to enrich international engagement. Dr. Chow has hosted more than 75 international visitors at NC State, and effective way to engage in firsthand collaborations.
Chow is the founder and the director of the Advanced Diagnosis, Automation and Control Laboratory at North Carolina State University. His recent research focuses on distributed control, and fault management with applications on smart grids, PHEVs, batteries, and mechatronics/robotics systems. He has served as a Principal Investigator in projects supported by various federal agencies and private companies. He has published one book, seven book chapters, and over two hundred journal and conference articles. Chow earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982 and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1983 and 1987, respectively.
Congratulations to Dr. Mo-Yuen Chow on all your work and for receiving the 2022 Outstanding Global Engagement Award!
Read more about this year’s Outstanding Global Engagement Award recipients here.