TAMU professor, Dr. Arnold Vedlitz (Bush School of Government and Public Services) and colleagues published a paper titled, “Public Support for Climate Change Policy: Consistency in the Influence of Values and Attitudes Over Time and Across Specific Policy Alternatives”. The article was published in the Review of Policy Research. This paper examines the public’s support for …
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TAMU-TEES has granted currently a seed funding for research titled “Design and Implication of Novel In Situ Techniques for Studies of Advanced Functional Materials for Energy Applications” proposed by Dr. Haiyan Wang (PI, Electrical & Computer Engineering) and Co-PIs: Dr. Xinghang Zhang, Dr. Andreas Polycarpou (Mechanical Engineering), and Dr. Ibrahim Karaman (Materials Science & Engineering). Read …
Seed award was granted by TAMU-TEES for this research lead by Dr. Yu Ding, the PI (Industrial and Systems Engineering), and Co-PIs: Dr. Erick Moreno-Centeno, (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Dr. P.R. Kumar and Dr. Narasimha Reddy, (Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Dr. Bani Mallick and Dr. JianHua Huang, (Statistics). Read more >
Payman Dehghanian, PhD candidate was recently awarded the “2015 IEEE Industrial Application Society (IAS) Myron Zucker Electrical Safety Prevention through Design Student Engineering Education Initiative” award. Payman will be presented the award at the 2015 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop (ESW) January 26-30 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. Tarla Rai Peterson, Boone and Crockett chair and Smart Grid Center collaborator, and co-authors recently published an article in the UCLA Law Review. The article illustrates the use of the Socio-Political Evaluation of Energy Deployment (SPEED) framework to characterize the socio-political factors influencing the development of energy systems across multiple regions. The paper can …
At the beginning of this week, Dr. Mladen Kezunovic and Tomo Popovic had the opportunity to present a tutorial titled Multiple Uses of Substation IED Data for Future Grid Applications at the Grid of the Future Symposium. The Symposium was hosted by CIGRÉ (The Council on Large Electric Systems) in Houston, Texas on October 19-21.
Earlier this week, students had the opportunity to hear Bill Meehan, Director of Utility Solutions and Brian J. Baldwin, Technical Marketing Evangelist at ESRI speak on the future of GIS. The presentation looked at where GIS will provide support for work flows in a utility, as well the obstacles that prevent its full use.
Dr. Erick Moreno-Centeno, Assistant Professor at Dept. Industrial & Systems Engineering, was nominated and selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 6th Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium in Irvine CA to be held on October 26-29, 2014. Dr. Moreno-Centeno’s research interests include design and analysis of optimization models and algorithms; computational optimization, combinatorial …
Storm forecasting plays a major role in predicting potential power grid fault location as well as elephants behavior. In the Department of Geography, Assistant Professor Oliver Frauenfeld has found that elephants can detect thunderstorms over 150 miles away. More information can be found on the tamuTimes website.
A paper titled “Power Management System with Integrated Maximum Power Extraction Algorithm for Microbial Fuel Cells” was recently published by IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. The paper was written by S. Carreon-Bautista, C. Erbay, A. Han, and corresponding author E. Sanchez-Sinencio from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Their paper can be found here.