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Conferences & Continuing Education
Conferences | Short Courses | Tutorials | Workshops
In its efforts to bring the best to its students, the Electrical Engineering Department at the PI seeks to hold conferences, short courses, tutorials, and workshops that target not only the students, but in some cases the Electrical and Electronics Engineers community in the country/region.
Conferences
| ICMSAO ‘07 |
The 2nd International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization |
| 24 – 27 March, 2007 |
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi |
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Summary
The Second International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization ICMSAO '07 was the second in a series of international conferences focusing on modeling and simulation. It provided a forum for International group of engineers and scientists, from academia and industry, to present and discuss their most recent work in modeling and simulation of processes and systems. It was attended by delegates from 38 countries. The conference included presentations of 250 papers out of 450 submitted, five tutorials on subjects of importance to industry, a workshops on project management and one on leadership skills (courtesy IEEE), and four keynote speakers included Dr. Ignacio E. Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University), Dr. Hojjat Adeli (The Ohio State University), Dr. Elfatih A. B. Eltahir (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) and Dr. Ahmad Zaharudin Idrus (Former Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia), amongst others. The conference began with timely plenary sessions and also included tutorials on up-to-date simulation, modeling, and optimizations related topics. In addition, the conference comprised an outstanding combination of technical panel, and papers on relevant topics.
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Tutorials
IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI |
Practical Lessons from Wind Farm Collector Systems and Interconnections |
28 October, 2009 |
Mrs. Wanda Reder |
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Abstract
In this presentation, Wanda Reder, President of IEEE PES, spoke about the wind energy development in the United States, including the turbine and tower, and the engineering requirements for the collector system, and highlighted the modeling requirements for interconnections. She concluded with a discussion on the typical structure for wind projects and lessons learned after completing them.
Mrs. Wanda Reder is currently the President of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and the Vice President of the Power Systems Services Division at S&C Electric Company offering engineering, field service, and project management capabilities to utilities, developers and industrial customers. Prior to S&C, Wanda was the Vice President of T&D Asset Management at Exelon where she had responsibility for asset investment strategy, standards, engineering, planning, reliability and work management in Chicago and Philadelphia. Prior to Exelon, Wanda was the Vice President of Energy at Davies Consulting.
Wanda has been instrumental in leading S&C into the Wind energy market. She capitalized on S&C’s expertise in contract development, substation and collector engineering and design, relaying, protection and coordination, SCADA, VAR management, and S&C’s world class consulting and analytical services. Under Wanda’s leadership, S&C now consults with the largest wind developers in the world; S&C has constructed the largest wind farm in Canada, and several wind generation facilities in the U.S.
Slides
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Brochure
Click here for a brochure of all tutorials in the IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI.
Website
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IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI |
What is the Smart Grid and What is Needed to Make it a Reality? |
28 October, 2009 |
Dr. Saifur Rahman |
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The concept of the Smart Grid originated from the desire to make the grid – starting from the power station to the end-use device - smarter, safer, and more reliable using advanced sensors, communication technologies and distributed computing. I n this talk, Dr. Saifur Rahman (IEEE/PES Vice President) explained how the smart grid will look more like the Internet, where information about the state of the grid can be exchanged quickly over large distances. He mentioned how it will also allow integration of new sustainable energy sources, such as wind, solar, off-shore electricity, etc. He also talked about the four attributes of the Smart Grid that need to work interactively for this concept to be a reality, which are: Technology, Standards, Public Awareness and a Policy of Incentives.
Dr. Saifur Rahman is the director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech where he is the Joseph Loring Professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment at the University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee. Professor Rahman has served as a program director in engineering at the US National Science Foundation between 1996 and 1999. In 2009 he is serving as the vice president for New Intiatives and Outreach for the IEEE Power & Energy Society and a member of its governing board. In 2006 he served as the vice president of the IEEE Publications Board, and a member of the IEEE Board of Governors. Prior to that, he served as the vice president for Publications and Education & Industry Relations for the IEEE Power & Energy Society for five years. He is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE and in that capacity he has spoken on renewable energy, electric power system planning, intelligent power grid, environment and critical infrastructure protection related topics in over 20 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and North America. He has published over 300 papers in the areas of his technical interest. He is the inaugural editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.
Slides
Click here for a PDF version of the tutorial slides.
Brochure
Click here for a brochure of all tutorials in the IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI.
Website
Click here to go to the website dedicated to the IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI.
IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI |
Recent Trends in Substation Automation and Enterprise Data Management to Support Smart Grid Applications |
28 October, 2009 |
Mr. John D, McDonald |
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The purpose of this talk by John D Macdonald, IEEE Division VII Director, was to familiarize participants with all aspects of substation automation and enterprise data management, and how they support Smart Grid applications. The term Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) was defined, and the different levels of substation integration and automation were discussed. The reasons a utility would need substation automation were presented, along with a discussion of the components of the integration and automation architecture with respect to their technical issues. The talk also included a discussion of the sensitive, controversial issues that need to be addressed by a utility when implementing substation automation. The characteristics and interface issues associated with Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) were addressed, since the integration architecture is only as good as the integration capabilities of the IEDs themselves. Communication protocol fundamentals and considerations were also discussed, as well as relevant industry standards and their impact on substation automation. Finally, the characteristics of extracting the valuable data from substation Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) and effectively managing this data in the electric utility enterprise were illustrated.
Dr. John D. McDonald, P.E., is GM, Marketing for GE Energy T&D in Atlanta, Georgia. John has 35 years of experience in the electric utility transmission and distribution industry. John received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. (Power Engineering) degrees from Purdue University, and an M.B.A. (Finance) degree from the University of California-Berkeley. John is a member of Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary) and Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary), is a Fellow of IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering Award in 2002, the IEEE PES Substations Committee Distinguished Service Award in 2003, and the 2009 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. John is Past President of the IEEE PES, CIGRE US National Committee (USNC) VP Technical Activities, Past Chair of the IEEE PES Substations Committee, IEEE Division VII Director, and is a registered Professional Engineer (Electrical) in California, Pennsylvania and Georgia. John teaches a course on Modern Energy Management Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a course on Smart Grid for GE Energy, and has published thirty-one articles and papers and co-authored three books, including Electric Power Substations Engineering, Second Edition, published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press in 2007. John is a member of DOE’s Smart Grid Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC), a member of NEMA’s Smart Grid Task Force, and on the Board of Directors of the GridWise Alliance.
Slides
Click here for a PDF version of the tutorial slides.
Brochure
Click here for a brochure of all tutorials in the IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI.
Website
Click here to go to the website dedicated to the IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI.
IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI |
High Voltage Shunt Reactor Intelligence Protection Scheme- How It Makes Grid Smarter |
28 October, 2009 |
Mrs. Meliha B. Selak |
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From the first installation to the present, shunt reactors have formed an important component of the AC power transmission system and is used to compensate for the capacitive reactance of transmission lines and cables. This capacitance produces VAR result in high voltages. So, the main task of shunt compensation is voltage regulation. This presentation, given by Meliha B. Selak (Vice President IEEE/PES) focused on the protection planning aspects of these installations, and the role protection takes in assuring the specified performance of these important elements in the power system. It was also explained how, with new intelligent devices and telecommunication media (digital microwave and fibre optic cables), the protective schemes for the shunt reactors made the power system more reliable and cost effective.
Dr. Meliha B. Selak is a Specialist Engineer in Electrical Power Systems with BC Hydro. She has an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Sarajevo and has over 30 years of experience in various aspects of power systems engineering including utility protection, research & development, project management and consulting on international projects. Prior to joining BC Hydro in 2000, she worked as a research engineer in the Power System Group at the University of British Columbia on Real-Time Power System Simulator in connection with EMTP. Her technical activities include power system protection and control applications, power system analysis, evaluations and interconnection studies for the various plants connecting to the power system, as well as development of the protection guidelines.
She is a registered professional engineer in the Province of British Columbia and is a senior member of IEEE. In 2009 she is serving as the vice president for Chapters for the IEEE Power & Energy Society and a member of its governing board. Also, she is a member of the IEEE Power System Relay Committee (PSRC). She has written numerous documents and technical papers associated on the power system subjects and also a paper reviewer.
Slides
Click here for a PDF version of the tutorial slides.
Brochure
Click here for a brochure of all tutorials in the IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI.
Website
Click here to go to the website dedicated to the IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI.
IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI |
Intelligent System Strategies for Reconfiguration of Power Systems including Distributed Generation and Intentional Islanding |
28 October, 2009 |
Dr. Noel N. Schulz |
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With the increased penetration of distributed generation, there are more opportunities to reconfigure the power system to help with load leveling, restoration or improved stability. In this talk, Dr. Noel Schulz discussed research activities looking at various intelligent system techniques such as intelligent agents, genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization to reconfigure the power system taking into account distributed generation as well as intentional islanding.
Dr. Noel Schulz is Paslay Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Kansas State University, Kansas, USA. Dr. Schulz received her B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA in 1988 and 1990, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in EE from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in 1995. Become joining K-State, She spent eight years at Mississippi State University where she was the TVA Endowed Professor in Power Systems Engineering. She also has teaching experience at Michigan Technological University, University of North Dakota and Virginia Tech. Her research interests are in the computer applications in power systems including power system operations, shipboard power systems and intelligent system applications. She is active in the IEEE Power & Energy Society serving as Secretary from 2004-2007, Treasurer from 2008-2009 and President-Elect candidate for 2010-2011. Dr. Schulz is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Society of Women Engineers and the National Society of Black Engineers.
Slides
Click here for a PDF version of the tutorial slides.
Brochure
Click here for a brochure of all tutorials in the IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI.
Website
Click here to go to the website dedicated to the IEEE/PES 125th Anniversary event at the PI.
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| Part of ICMSAO ‘07 |
Harmonics and Power Quality Control in Industrial Power Systems |
| 25 March, 2007 |
Dr. Ali Mihrig |
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Tutorial Abstract
As sensitive electronic equipment and harmonic-producing loads increase in industrial power systems, problems related to power quality will become more prevalent. Although a majority of power-quality problems in industrial power systems are related to harmonics and sensitive equipment, other power quality problems are related to system design, apparatus, system grounding and operation procedures. Accurate identification of power quality problems leads to proper analysis and satisfactory solutions.
This tutorial will be divided to three parts, (1) introduction and background information, (2) system design, specifications and meeting standards and (3) description of practical experience with several industrial plants around the world. This tutorial will discuss all three aspects of identification, analysis and solutions that are practical and cost effective. The instructor will share his many years of rich experience in this field with participants.
Dr. Ali Mihrig holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He began his engineering career as a production engineer in the petroleum industry in 1978. After completing his Ph.D. degree in 1987, he joined AMEC Consulting Services as a senior electrical engineer. He participated in design, analysis and commissioning for many large industrial projects in Canada, U.S., South America, Australia and Europe. Experience industries include pulp & paper, oil & gas, marine & ports and chemical plants. In 1994 Dr. Ali established and became President and Principal Engineer of AM Power Systems (amps) and has continued to participate in industrial projects around the world. Dr. Ali’s experience focuses on power system analysis, design, feasibility studies, front-end engineering, power studies including system planning, protection, arc flash, harmonic and power quality. Dr. Ali has taught many short courses and tutorials for IEEE, Electricity Forum, and several client companies. Dr. Ali is the author of several technical papers on power systems stability, power quality, grounding and protection.
Dr. Abdul Rahiman Beig received a B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Suratkal, India, and M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He joined the Petroleum Institute in 2006. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Suratkal, India. From 1989 to 1992, he was with M/S Kirloskar Electric Company, Ltd, Mysore, India, as a R&D Engineer in the drives group, during which time his team received the best indigenous product design award. His research interests are in the area of power electronics, motor drives and FACTS. He has published several papers in the areas of multilevel inverters, PWM techniques and CSI fed induction motor drives. Dr. Beig also is a consultant to industry. He is senior member of IEEE. Dr. Beig received the INAE - National award for his research work and L&T- ISTE National Award for the best M.E. thesis in Electrical and Electronics. His paper on space vector PWM for three level inverters received the best presentation and student award at the IEEE-IECON 2006 international conference held at Virginia, USA.
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Vibration-Control Systems: Conceptual Design, Recent Developments and Practical Implementation |
| 26 March, 2007 |
Dr. Nader Jalili |
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Tutorial Abstract
This short-course presents the fundamental principles and theoretical concepts for vibration control systems design and implementation, followed by an overview of recent developments and control techniques in this subject. There are many important areas directly or indirectly related to the main theme of this course. These include practical implementation of vibration control systems, nonlinear control schemes, actual hardware implementation, actuator bandwidth requirements, reliability and cost. Furthermore, in the process of designing a vibration control system, in practice several critical criteria must be considered such as weight, size, and shape, types of dynamic disturbances, allowable system response, ambient environment and service life. These topics are also discussed along with some related practical developments in variable structure control and piezoelectric vibration control of flexible robot manipulators.
Prof. Jalili joined the faculty of Clemson University in August of 2000. He is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Clemson University Smart Structures and Nanoelectromechanical Systems Laboratory. Dr. Jalili is the Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Associate Editor of ASME Transactions, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Founding Chair of ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Control of Smart Structures, Past Chair and Vice-Chair of Vibration and Noise Control Panel of the ASME, and member of both Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound (TCVS) as well as Vehicle Design Committee (VDC) of the ASME. He is the author/coauthor of more than 150 peer-refereed technical publications including 45 journal papers. He is the recipient the 2003 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation, the 2002 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Department of Energy, several Clemson University Board of Trustees Awards for Faculty Excellence in Research, major advisor to three Best Student Papers in IMECE 2001 (New York, NY), IMECE 2002 (New Orleans, LA) and IMECE 2004 (Anaheim, CA), Outstanding Scholar Fellowship (OSF) from the University of Connecticut (1995-98), and First Class Honors for both MS (1995) and BS (1992) degrees from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Professor Palmer graduated with honors from the Colorado School of Mines in metallurgical engineering and obtained a Ph.D. in metallurgy from the University of Utah. He joined the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology where he held the positions of assistant, associate and full professor. He taught chemical processing and conducted research on chemical processing and high-temperature corrosion in coal gasification. In 1985 Dr. Palmer moved to the U.S. independent energy company, Kerr-McGee, to manage basic research, process research, services and quality. He then transferred to Kerr-McGee Global Chemical Operations where he implemented continuous improvement initiatives. Dr. Palmer has 38 technical papers and patents. He is a member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society and the Tau Beta Pi honorary engineering fraternity. He also is a member of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers and is 2006-2007 Chairman of the UAE NACE chapter. He is recipient of the Colorado School of Mines' van Diest Gold Medal, the ASM Bradley Stoughton Award for outstanding professors, the AIME Arthur F. Taggart for an outstanding surface chemistry paper, and the AIME Publications Committee Award for an exceptional book.
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Workshops
| LabVIEW Workshop |
Testing, Measurement, and Control with LabVIEW |
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Summary
Labview is used extensively in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering for testing, measurement, and control applications. Regardless of your experience, you can rapidly improve your knowledge on this useful application in this workshop.
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| PCB Workshop |
Printed Circuit Board Design, Manufacturing, and Testing |
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Printed Circuit Boards, or simply PCBs, are used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. PCBs are so popularly used because they are rugged, inexpensive and can be highly reliable compared to wire-wrapped project boards and stripped boards.
The electrical engineering department at the petroleum institute is preparing a 5-days workshop on PCB layout design, board manufacturing and component soldering. All electrical engineering students are invited and welcomed to attend the workshop.
The layout design will involve teaching the student two methods to create the circuit layout. One way is to use software that can create a Garber file out of circuit schematics. The other deals with directly drawing your circuit layout using other software.
The board manufacturing will show the student the difference between the chemical etching and the mechanical etching process.
Moreover the student will learn about standard components and Surface mount devices (SMDs) soldering techniques.
Later on the student will design and create the layout then chemically develop the PCB board. Finally he will solder the components on the same board.
This workshop aims to support the students with enough skills to prepare the PCBs for their senior designs and competitions projects with less time and effort.
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| MATLAB Workshop |
Basic MATLAB Programming |
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MATLAB is one of the most widely used scientific programming languages in the world today. The name, MATLAB, stands for Matrix Laboratory, a reflection of the programs origins. Indeed, one of the most distinctive features of MATLAB is its integrated use of matrices and the operations of linear algebra.
All EE students are welcome to attend the workshop. Especially those who have already completed ELEG 205 and ELEG 206 and also those junior and senior level students who want to brush their programming skills in MATLAB.
There are two objectives to this tutorial: (a) to learn basic MATLAB commands, and (b) to understand how to write and execute simple MATLAB programs to generate, manipulate, display and save data. The following topics will be covered during the short course:
. Variables, assignment statements and mathematical operations
. Mathematical Operations with MATLAB
. Loops and Conditionals in MATLAB
. Built in MATLAB functions
. Scalar Functions Applied to Matrices
. Writing a MATLAB program: M files
. Plotting in MATLAB
. ODE routines in MATLAB
. Symbolic Tool Box in MATLAB
. Control System Tool Box.
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