Deputy Director of UT-CEM
Shannon M. Strank received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, in 2000, and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, in 2011. She joined the University of Texas at Austin Center for Electromechanics (UT-CEM) in 2006 after six years as a support engineer in private industry. Following completion of her M.B.A., she became the Deputy Director of UT-CEM. In addition to program development responsibilities, she provides oversight and guidance the Center’s Grid Solutions program. Research areas of focus within this program include electric ship design and control, fault prediction and mitigation, fault detection, and lifetime prediction for insulative materials.