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Dr. Thomas Overbye received 2024 Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award

We are excited to share that Dr. Thomas Overbye has been honored with the 2024 Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to teaching. A professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the TEES Smart Grid Center, Dr. Overbye continues to inspire both undergraduate

Dr. Birchfield received the NSF CAREER award

We are excited to announce that Dr. Birchfield received the NSF CAREER award, with project title “CAREER: Spatial Complex Network Analysis of Bulk Electric Grids for Long-Term System Planning.”  More Info on the NSF Website.

New NIST Project Titled “Electric Grid Resilience”

In February 2021, Winter Storm Uri demonstrated to Texas and the rest of the nation both the criticality and the vulnerability of our electric grids. Unfortunately, there are multiple other events, potentially much more extreme than Uri, which could also affect our electricity supply. At the same time, the electric grids are rapidly changing with

New DOE CESER Project “Preventing Wildfire Ignition from Powerline Equipment Failures Using ML-Based Classification of Real-Time Electrical Measurements”

Powerline-caused wildfires can occur when powerline equipment fails, creating ignition mechanisms. These mechanisms include melting devices, burning particles dropping from arcing parts, and lines down due to component failure. Research has shown that many equipment failures slowly develop over days or weeks prior to catastrophic failure that can ignite a fire. The Office of Cybersecurity,

Best Poster Award at the 52nd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Sawsan Shukri, Ph. D. student supervised by Robert Balog, Ph.D., P.E. (Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, TAMU; Assistant Director for Grid Edge, TEES Smart Grid Center) won Best Poster Award at the 52nd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) in Seattle, Washington. This conference was held on June 9-14, 2024. The title of her poster presentation was

Research of Kate Davis, Lin Shao and Pavel Tsvetkov Awarded by NNSA through “Consortium for Enabling Technologies & Innovation (ETI) 2.0” Lead by GaTech

Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty team of Drs. Kate Davis, Lin Shao and Pavel Tsvetkov, is excited to have the opportunity to be part of the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation team led by Georgia Tech’ Dr. Anna Erickson. “We are thrilled to carry-on cutting-edge science and engineering research

Awarded Project “Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M Regional Grid Consortium”

To accelerate analysis of regional extreme weather threats and impacts on the electric grid, the Grid Deployment Office of Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $600,000 to fund the project titled “Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M Regional Grid Consortium“. With duration of one year, it will start on August 1, 2024. The principal investigator

icSmartGrid2022 Best Paper Award for Robert Balog, Wesam Rohouma, Miroslav Begovic, and Aaqib Peerzada

The paper titled “Use of D-STATCOM for Solid State LED Lamp Harmonic Power Mitigation” was recognized with Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on Smart Grid (icSmartGrid2022) held in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 27-29, 2022. The authors are the following: Robert S. Balog, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, TAMU, Director, Renewable Energy