Stan McClellan, PhD, is the Director of the JSC Engineering & Technical Support (JETS) program at Texas State University (TXST), which provides support to NASA’s Johnson Space Center via subcontract to Jacobs Engineering. He was the co-Director of the Connected Infrastructure initiative (CIEDAR) at TXST from 2019 to 2023, which is developing living labs and prototypes for smart grid, smart energy, smart transportation, and other smart city verticals. McClellan was the Director of Ingram School of Engineering at TXST from 2013 to 2018 and Professor of Electrical / Computer Engineering from 2008 to 2023, where in addition to managing the JETS program he continues to research topics including Smart Grid & Smart City technologies, IP networks & protocols, embedded computing systems, communication systems, and virtualized computing environments.
McClellan has held executive or senior engineering positions at companies including Hewlett Packard, Compaq, ZNYX Networks, SBE, General Dynamics, and LTV Missiles & Electronics Group. In 2008, he co-founded and was Chief Technology Officer for Power Tagging Technologies, a successful startup company in the Smart Grid space. He has consulted on technology & business matters for multiple companies, including Cisco, American Express, 3COM, BellSouth, Alcatel, AT&T, Amazon, Verizon, T-Mobile, Bank of America, Research in Motion (RIM), F5 Networks, Nortel, MCI/Worldcom, LSU Medical Center, and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). McClellan has made invited contributions to well-known references including Advances in Computers, The IEEE/CRC Electrical Engineering Handbook, and The Encyclopedias of Electrical & Electronics Engineering and has authored/edited current books on important topics, including “Smart Cities in Application: Healthcare, Policy, and Innovation” (Springer 2019), “Smart Cities Applications, Technologies, Standards, and Driving Factors” (Springer, 2017), and “The Smart Grid as an Application Development Platform” (Artech House, 2017).