Lalit Kumar Goel (born 1960) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the

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, Singapore. He was named

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(IEEE) in 2013 ''for contributions to the development and application of reliability techniques in electric power systems''.

Education and career

Goel was born in

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, India. He got his BTech degree in

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from the

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, India in 1983. He then immigrated to Canada, where he attended

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, Canada from which he got his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the same field in 1988 and 1991 respectively. From 2005 to 2008, Goel served as the Head of the Division of Power Engineering and from July 2008 to June 2012 was Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid. He was appointed director of the Undergraduate Education in the President's Office, and served as such from 2013 to 2015.

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1960 births Living people Indian electrical engineers National Institutes of Technology alumni University of Saskatchewan alumni Academic staff of Nanyang Technological University Fellows of the IEEE Academics from New Delhi {{Engineer-stub