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.
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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 …
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 >
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. …
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>
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
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 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.
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 …
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 …