The 20th Board meeting the TEES Smart Grid Center was held in person on April 4, 2022. The agenda of the meeting included voting on the a new Board member, presenting updates from the Center and new large planned projects, the current and potential MS program at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and …
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The 7th edition of textbook “POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN” by J. Duncan Glover, Thomas Overbye, Mulukutla S. Sarma, and Adam Birchfield has been recently released (Publisher: Cengage (UK)). The authors highlight basic key physical concepts behind today’s power systems with clear explanations of important mathematical techniques and the tools you need to apply your …
Dr. Prasad Enjeti (Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering) was appointed by Dr. John E. Hurtado, Interim Dean of College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, to the Texas Instruments (TI) Jack Kilby Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are the following: Advance power electronic converters for utility interface of …
For the one-year anniversary of Uri winter storm leading to a cascading power failure that left millions of Texans in the dark and cold, Le Xie, Ph.D. (Professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, Presidential Impact Fellow, Assistant Director for Energy Digitization, Texas A&M University) was interviewed by Avery Travis (kxan). He said, …
The U.S. National Academy of Engineering has elected a new member: Mladen Kezunovic, Ph.D., Regents Professor, Eugene E. Webb Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, and former director of TEES Smart Grid Center. He was recognized with this membership for his contributions to automated analysis of power system faults, …
Two new members have joined the Advisory Board of the Smart Grid Center (SGC) of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. Woody Rickerson is the Vice President for System Planning & Weatherization at Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Richard Medina is the Executive Vice President for Energy Delivery Services at …
Pooria Dehghanian, Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Texas A&M University (TAMU), was awarded the 2021 Fall Student Research Grant for his project titled “Transformer Thermal Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation Technique during Geomagnetic Disturbance.” This award for his project was voted unanimously to approve $5,000 R&D funding of the American …
Le Xie, Ph.D., Professor at Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, Presidential Impact Fellow, Assistant Director for Energy Digitization, Texas A&M University, has been selected to be 2021 IEEE Fellow for his contributions to economic and secure operations of power systems and big data analytics.
P.R. Kumar, Ph.D., Regents Professor, Distinguished Professor, and College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, was awarded the 2022 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. This medal was given for his exceptional contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks. More on the current …
The 4-year project titled “Advanced Learning for Energy Risk Tracking (ALERT)” was awarded by the National Science Foundation with the amount of $1,498,793. The project will start on September 1, 2022. The leadership team consists of the Principal investigator (PI) Mladen Kezunovic, Ph.D., Regents Professor, Eugene E. Webb Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer …