Rate My Professor Giorgio Rizzoni

Giorgio Rizzoni, the Ford Motor Company Chair in Electromechanical Systems, is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. He received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1980, M.S. in 1982, and Ph.D. in 1986, all from the University of Michigan. Rizzoni joined Ohio State in 1990 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, advancing to Associate Professor in 1995 and Professor in 2000. He has held a professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2002 and has served as Director of the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research since 1999, an interdisciplinary center in the College of Engineering. He directed three U.S. Department of Energy Graduate Automotive Technology Education Centers of Excellence from 1998 to 2016 and served as OSU Site Director for the U.S. Department of Energy China-USA Clean Energy Research Center-Clean Vehicles from 2011 to 2016.

His research interests encompass modeling, control, and diagnosis of advanced propulsion systems, vehicle fault diagnosis and prognosis, electrified powertrains and energy storage systems, vehicle safety and intelligence, and sustainable mobility. Rizzoni has been Principal Investigator on externally sponsored projects totaling over $60 million from government agencies and automotive industry partners. He is a Fellow of SAE (2005), Life Fellow of IEEE (2004), Fellow of ASME (2022), and recipient of the 1991 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Additional honors include the OSU College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award (2021), Clara M. and Peter L. Scott Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education (2017), Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award (2024, 2016), and multiple Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Awards and Excellence in Teaching Awards. Rizzoni has published more than 500 journal and refereed conference papers, several books including Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering (7th ed., 2022), Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Energy Management Strategies (2016), and Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering (2nd ed., 2022), and has advised over 40 Ph.D. students and 100 M.S. students.