Ahad Esmaeilian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been selected to present his submission for the IAS Electrical Safety Committee Electrical Safety Prevention. He will be presenting the “Impact of Major Power Grid Blackouts Prevention on Electrical Safety” at the IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop on March 7-11, 2016 in Jacksonville, Florida. This student program awards talented and promising students who have a passion for electrical safety by subsidizing travel, lodging and registration for participation in the IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop. Being selected as a recipient is an honor and will provide him with the opportunity to greatly shape the future of electrical safety culture.
Payman Dehghanian and Ahad Esmaeilian, PhD candidates advised by Prof. Kezunovic, were among the recipients of t
he “ESW 2016 Prevention through Design Student Engineering Education Initiative”. They were awarded during the IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Electric Safety Workshop (ESW) on March 8, 2016 at Jacksonville, Florida.