A new project titled “Life-Cycle Management of Mission-Critical Systems through Certification, Commissioning, In-Service Maintenance, Remote Testing, and Risk Assessment” was recently approved for $1.2 million. The project will last 3 years starting on July 1, 2015. The life-cycle management of mission critical systems is particularly complex since it requires tools and methodologies that are not …
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Payman Dehghanian and Po-Chen Chen, PhD candidates, were both recognized for being Outstanding Reviewers in 2014. This award is for those who have demonstrated exceptional review work in 2014. Payman was recognized for his work with the Elsevier Journal of Energy. Po-Chen Chen was recognized for his work with IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.
Payman Dehghanian, PhD candidate, is this year’s recipient of the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Individual Award. Region 5 covers all the IEEE activities in the Southwestern US and includes 8 states (Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Wyoming). Within Region 5, there are more than 23,000 higher grade members and over 3600 student members. …
On Friday, there will be a seminar hosted by Information Science and Systems (ISS). The speaker is Professor A.J. Han Vinck from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. The title of the seminar is “General Thoughts About Power Line Communications”. The seminar will take place on March 27 at 10am in 236C WEB.
The registration for the 2015 Smart Grid Workshop is open now. This year’s theme is “Challenges in Evaluating Smart Grid Solutions: Metric, Testing, Certification, Modeling and Simulation, and Testbeds”. The workshop will be held on April 21 in the Memorial Student Center at Texas A&M University.
PhD candidate, Mohammad Tasdighi, will be presenting a talk titled “Energy Management in Smart Microgrids”. The seminar will be held in ETB 1003 at 3pm. Currently, Mohammad is a research assistant pursing his PhD studies in electrical engineering at power system control and protection lab of Texas A&M University. His fields of interest are: Intelligent Protection of …
Dr. Tarla Rai Peterson, Smart Grid Center collaborator, and co-authors Jennie Stevens and Elizabeth Wilson recently published a book titled “Smart Grid (R)Evolution: Electric Power Struggles“. The book focuses on the social dimensions of creating an energy smart grid and links the social and technical aspects of energy system change for those interested in energy transitions. It was published by Cambridge Press. The …
Dr. Milos Cvetkovic, postdoctoral researcher at the Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be speaking at A&M on February 23. The seminar will be in ETB 1003 from 3:00-3:50pm. The title of the seminar is “Cooperative Control for Transient Stabilization Using Power-Electronics” As the number of wind and solar power plants increases while aged coal-fired power …
Dr. Kezunovic, Director of Smart Grid Center, Eugene E. Webb Professor (ECE), will be speaking at the Computer Engineering and Systems Group Seminar on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 3:55pm. The seminar will be held in 200 Harrington Education Center (HECC). The title of his presentation is Energy Cyberphysical Systems: The Lay of the Land. More information …
Payman Dehghanian, PhD candidate, received the 2015 IEEE Industrial Application Society (IAS) Myron Zucker Electrical Safety Prevention through Design Student Engineering Education Initiative award for his proposal titled “Assessing the Impact of Power System Topology Control on Circuit Breaker Reliability and Electric Safety”. The award was presented by IEEE IAS President, Dr. David B. Durocher, on January 26-30, …