Dr. Brandon Grainger is currently an Eaton faculty fellow, associate professor and Director of the Electric Power Technologies Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), Swanson School of Engineering. He is also the associate director of the Energy GRID Institute and Co-Director of Pitt AMPED. Dr. Grainger is one of the co-architects of the electric power program at Pitt that started in the fall of 2008.

Grainger holds a PhD in electrical engineering (with a specialization in power conversion), master’s degree in electrical engineering and bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (with minor in electrical engineering) all from Pitt. He was one of the first original R.K. Mellon graduate student fellows through the Center for Energy. He also obtained an executive education certificate from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business.

Dr. Grainger’s research interests are in electric power conversion, medium to high voltage power electronics (HVDC and STATCOM), general power electronic converter design (topology, controller design, magnetics), resonant converters and high power density design, power semiconductor evaluation (SiC and GaN), aerospace power conversion systems, EV motor drives, solid state transformer design, and optimized magnetic components.

Dr. Grainger has either worked or interned for ABB Corporate Research in Raleigh, NC; ANSYS Inc. in Southpointe, PA; Mitsubishi Electric in Warrendale, PA; Siemens Industry in New Kensington, PA; and has regularly volunteered at Eaton’s Power Systems Experience Center in Warrendale, PA designing electrical demonstrations. In his career thus far, he has contributed to 100+ articles in the general area of electric power conversion and all of which have been published through the IEEE, ASEE or ASNE. He also has one patent and edited one research textbook.

Dr. Grainger is a senior member of the IEEE and IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS). He has served as the IEEE Pittsburgh PELS Chapter Chair when the section has won numerous awards under his leadership. He has also served on various IEEE technical committees and was a technical program committee chair for IEEE ECCE in 2022.

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Power Electronics (MS - G), Renewable and Alternative Energy Power Conversion (MS - G), High Frequency Power Electronics (PhD - G), Power Quality (UG - Lab), Electric Circuits (UG), Electric Machines (UG), HVDC / FACTS Technologies (MS - G), Microelectronics (UG-Lab), Advanced Electric Machines and Drives (MS-G), Software Based Finite Element Analysis for Electrical Engineers (MS-G).