Arun Phadke is a University Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

Virginia Tech The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States ...

. Along with fellow Virginia Tech professor

James Thorp James S. Thorp (February 7, 1937 – May 2, 2018) was the head of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He was the Hugh P. and Ethel C. Kelly Professor Emeritus & Research Professor. He received all of hi ...

, Phadke received

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's 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering for their contributions to the power industry, particularly microprocessor controllers and Phasor measurement unit (PMU) technology in electric power systems.

Selected publications

* Textbook:
Computer Relaying for Power Systems
' (Arun G. Phadke and J. S. Thorp (Research Studies Press)) *Research monograph : ''Synchronized Phasor Measurements and Their Applications'', (Arun G. Phadke and J.S. Thorp (Springer)) * Textbook: ''Handbook of Electrical Engineering Calculations'' (ed. Arun G. Phadke (Marcel Dekker)) * Textbook:

' (Arun G. Phadke and Stanley H. Horowitz (John Wiley & Sons))

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Phadke, Arun Virginia Tech faculty Living people Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering American academics of Indian descent Year of birth missing (living people) Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates