Honors and awards

2026 – Foreign Fellow Indian National Academy of Engineering

2026 – IEEE Power and Energy Society Lifetime Achievement Award: For sustained pioneering contributions to research and education in control and stability of power grid operations

2019 – Regents Professor

2013 – IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award – IEEE Technical Field Award

2009 – IEEE Power and Energy Society, Working Group Recognition Award, Outstanding Technical Report – “Blackout Experience and Lessons, Best Practices for System Dynamic Performance and the Role of New Technologies.

2007 – IEEE Power Engineering Society, Power System Dynamic Performance Committee, Technical Committee Prize Paper Award

2007 – Named among the 150 “Visionaries” — individuals who built Iowa State University on the occasion of ISU’s sesquicentennial.

2006 – IEEE PES, Power System Dynamic Performance Comm., Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award

2005 – IEEE Power Engineering Society, Power System Dynamic Performance Committee, Distinguished service award.

2005 – Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor, Arizona State University

2004 – Anson Marston Distinguished Professor, Iowa State University

2004 – Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering

2003 – Iowa State University Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research.

2001 – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Power Engineering Society Technical Council Committee of the Year Award 2000-2001 – Power System Dynamic Performance Committee – Chair Vijay Vittal.

2000 – Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, Power Engineering Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

2000 – Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award. Departmental Award for Student Recognition of Outstanding Classroom Performance.

1997 – Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

1989 – Young Engineering Faculty Research Award, presented by the College of Engineering, Iowa State University.

1988 – Faculty Award of Excellence, Presented annually by the NCR Corporation to recognize outstanding contributions to the Academic Education of Electrical Engineering Students.

1985 – Presidential Young Investigator Award, received from the President of the United States in recognition of research and teaching abilities

Textbooks or chapters in books

Fouad, A. A., and V. Vittal, Power System Transient Stability Analysis Using the Transient Energy Function
Method, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1992.

Bergen, A. R., and V. Vittal, Power System Analysis, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2000.

V. Vittal, R. Ayyanar, Grid Integration and Dynamic Impact of Wind Energy, Springer, New York, 2013.

V. Vittal, The Electric Power Engineering Handbook, L. L. Grigsby, Editor and Chief, “Direct Stability
Methods,” pp. 11-42 – 11-54, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2001.

Vittal, V., “Emergency Control and Special Protections Systems in Large Electric Power Systems,” Stability and Control of Dynamical Systems
with Applications, pp. 293-313, Birkhäuser, Boston, 2003.

Sauer, P.W., K. L. Tomsovic, V. Vittal, The Electric Power Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, Power System Stability and
Control, L.L. Grigsby, Editor, “Dynamic Security Assessment,” pp. 15-1 – 15-10, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton Florida, 2007.

Vittal, V., The Electric Power Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, Power System Stability and Control, L.L. Grigsby, Editor,
“Direct Stability Methods,” pp. 11-1 – 11-13, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton Florida, 2007.

T.J. Browne, V. Vittal, G.T. Heydt, and A.R. Messina, Inter-area Oscillations in Power Systems – A Nonlinear and Nonstationary
Perspective, “Practical Application of Hilbert Transform Techniques in Identifying Inter-area Oscillations,” pp. 101-126, Springer, 2009.

Vittal, V., F. Ma, A Hybrid Dynamic Equivalent Using ANN-Based Boundary Matching Technique, “Power System Coherency and
Model Reduction,” pp.91-118, Springer, 2013.