Grzybowski honored by technical society

A Mississippi State professor is being recognized with one of the leading honors of the world's largest technical society.

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Stanislaw "Stan" Grzybowski, director of the High Voltage Laboratory, will be inducted early next year as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

A member of the electrical and computer engineering faculty since 1987, he was selected on the basis of career-long contributions to research involving the insulation of electrical transmission and distribution lines.

IEEE, which has more than 320,000 members in 150 countries, bestows fellows designation on less than one percent of its membership each year. The organization is headquartered in Piscataway, N.J.

The high voltage lab that Grzybowski has led since 1993 is the largest of its type at an American university. It serves both as an academic teaching and research facility, and as a test facility for utility manufacturers and other commercial customers.

A native of Poland, Grzybowski holds master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University in Warsaw. He also received a doctor of science degree from the Technical University of Wroclaw.

He previously was a faculty member at the Technical University of Poznan, Poland, University of South Carolina and the University of Manitoba, Canada.