Leszek Czarnecki      Alfredo M. Lopez Distinguished Professor Address:      Louisiana State University      Dept. of Elect. Computer Eng.      Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5901 Tel:      225-578-5239 Fax:     225-578-5200 E-mail: czarneck@ece.lsu.edu Home Page

    Areas of major interest are power related phenomena in electrical circuits under nonsinusoi-dal conditions, as well as related issues such as measurements, instrumentation, compensation, balancing, harmonic reduction. His research contributed to explanation of physical, energy flow related phenomena in three-phase, non-linear, unbalanced and asymmetrical systems and to the development of the power equations for such situations. Also, power electronics and adjustable speed drives are subject of his interest.

Biographical Sketch

    Leszek S. Czarnecki received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Silesian Technical University (STU), Poland, in 1963, were he was subsequently employed as an Assistant and Assistant Professor. For his contribution to the network synthesis and measurements in nonsinusoidal systems he received Ph.D. degree with distinction from the STU in 1969. For the development of a new power theory of single-phase circuits under nonsinusoidal conditions, and for a method of reactive power compensation in such circuits, Dr. Czarnecki was endowed in 1984 with the Habilitated Doctor (D.Sc.) degree. Since 1984 he worked for two years at the Power Engineering Section, Division of Electrical Engineering, National Research Council of Canada as a Visiting Research Officer. In 1987 he joined the Electrical Engineering Dept. at Zielona Gora Technical University, Poland, as an Associate Professor. In 1989 he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. In 1986 Dr. Czarnecki has been elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow "For the development of the power theory of three-phase asymmetrical systems with nonsinusoidal waveforms, and for the contribution to measurements, power factor, and power quality improvement in such systems."
    Dr. Czarnecki is a Foreign Member of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering (PTETiS) and he received two Awards for Contribution to Science, granted by the Secretary of Higher Education and Science of Poland. For the contribution to security of Poland, Dr. Czarnecki was decorated in 1999 with the Cavalier Cross of the Medal of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
    Mountaineering is Dr. Czarnecki's main unprofessional interest. He climbed the highest mountains in Africa, climbed in Himalayas to the altitude of 27400 feet, in Andes, Spitsbergen and in Alps. In 1999 Dr. Czarnecki climbed solo McKinley, the highest mountain in North America.