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Texas Solar Energy Society

The Texas Solar Energy Society will host their annual meeting on January 31, 2015. The meeting will look at the Society’s plans for 2015 and will feature a presentation by Dr. Balog (ECE) and his students. The meeting will be held in Rudder Tower at Texas A&M University, room 308, from 1-4pm.

Serpedin Won Best Paper Award at Prestigious Conference

Dr. Erchin Serpedin and his collaborators, Miao Wang (lead author, University of Waterloo), Ran Zhang and Dr. Xuemin Shen (University of Waterloo), Dr. Khalid Qaraqe, and Dr. Muhammad Ismail (Texas A&M University in Qatar) were awarded a prestigious Best Paper Award at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 conference held in Austin, TX, U.S.A., during December 8-12,

Texas Solar Energy Society Annual Meeting

The Texas Solar Energy Society will hold its annual meeting at the main campus of Texas A&M University at 1 pm – 4 pm on  January 31st, 2015. This event is sponsored by the Texas A&M Renewable Energy Lab and the Texas A&M Energy Institute.

Dr. Russell Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Smart Grid Collaborator, Dr. Don Russell was named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and will be inducted this March.  Dr. Russell is the Harry E. Bovay, Jr. Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as a Regents Professor and a Distinguished Professor. He holds 13 U.S. patents and is

Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2014

Professor Xi Zhang and Jingqing Wang, his Ph.D. student, won the prestigious Best Paper Award at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 conference held in Austin, TX, U.S.A., during December 8-12, 2014. Their paper was titled “3D Percolation Theory-Based Exposure-Path Prevention for Optimal Power-Coverage Tradeoff in Clustered Wireless Camera Sensor Networks”. Read more >

O’Donnell Award Recipient

Dr. Haiyan Wang, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M and Smart Grid Center Collaborator, has been named one of the four recipients for the 2015 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award. This award recognizes exemplary Texas researchers who are addressing the role that science and technology play in society. Dr.

Third Smart Grid Workshop

The Third Smart Grid Workshop will be held at Texas A&M on April 21, 2015. The theme for the workshop will be testbeds. More information can be found at this link>

Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Workshop

The new Smart Grid Center extension in Qatar will host the first Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Workshop on March 22 and 23, 2015. The deadline for paper submission is January 5, 2015. More information can be found at this link

Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar

Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) launched the Smart Grid Center extension in Qatar on November 12, 2014. The opening ceremony was a success with distinguished speakers and attendees to celebrate the extension. Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub, the Managing Director of the Smart Grid Center extension in Qatar, gave a detailed presentation about the Center and what it means for

Dr. Le Xie was Invited Speaker

Dr. Le Xie was one of the keynote speakers at the “Today’s Research for Tomorrow’s Grid” international workshop organized by Tsinghua University in Bejing, China on October 15-16, 2014. His talk was titled “Closing the Loop Around the Smart Grid Data” More information can be found at this link.