Biography

David A. Torrey received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has held faculty positions at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. David spent a number of years with a small consulting firm working on electric machines, power converters, and their control with application to automotive, renewable energy, and actuation systems. He is currently the manager of the Electrical Machines Laboratory at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, NY.  David is also the director of electrical engineering at Union Graduate College (now Clarkson University, Capital Region Campus) in Schenectady, NY.