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JAMES E. VAN NESS
JAMES E. VAN NESS
Pages 326-329
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Professor Van Ness was inspired to pursue electrical engineering after serving in the US Navy, where he spent 2 years working with radar equipment on an aircraft carrier. When his service ended, he earned his BS at Iowa State University (1949)
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Van Ness's and Tinney's work completely changed the landscape of power system engineering software. Later, Brian Stott built on their work to produce a remarkable simplification of the entire problem as a fast decoupled load flow formulation; it is now the universally accepted method for solving load flow problems in most applications in the power industry.
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"He was very modest and down-to-earth in spite of his many accomplishments and distinctions." My (first author's) son Ajit attended Northwestern starting in 1989, and Jim and his wife Mary Ellen looked after him most kindly, including hosting him for meals at their home near campus. With the exception of brief stints as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jim spent his career at Northwestern.
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