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.
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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, …
Dr. Arum Han, Smart Grid Center collaborator, and co-authors published a paper in the Journal of Power Sources. The paper is titled “Control of Geometrical Properties of Carbon Nanotube Electrodes Towards High-Performance Microbial Fuel Cells”. The results of this study offer great potential for advancing the development of microbial electrochemical systems by providing a highly efficient …
Dr. Miroslav M. Begovic, Smart Grid Advisory Board Member, was appointed as the new Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head, effective January 2015. Dr. Begovic served as Professor and Chair of the Electric Energy Research Group in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He was also an associated affiliated faculty member of the Brook Byers Institute …
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.
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, …