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Tarek Masaud
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Office: ENGR 224
Email:tmasaud@uccs.edu
Announcements & News
06/23 Our journal Paper of "Optimal Battery Planning for Microgrid Applications Considering Battery Swapping and Evolution of the SOH During Lifecycle Aging" was accepted in IEEE System Journal.
06/23 Our paper of "Optimal Planning of University Campus Microgrid With High Penetration of Renewable Energy and Storage: UCCS Campus Case Study " was accepted and presented in CIRED 2023 International Conference & Exhibition on Electricity Distribution.
04/23 Our paper of "Optimal Microgrid Scheduling for Minimizing CO2 Emission Considering the Impact of Utility Grid Renewable Energy Penetration Factor" was published in IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2023).
03/23 our paper of "Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Among Networked Microgrids Considering the Complementary Nature of Wind and PV Solar Energy" was published in 2023 IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Middle East (ISGT Middle East).
04/22 Our paper of "Optimal Seasonal Spinning Reserve Scheduling for Islanded Microgrid Operation Under Contingency Conditions" was published in IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2022).
08/21 I joined University of Colorado at Colorado Springs as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering.
04/21: Our paper of " Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Model for Networked Microgrids" was accepted in IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2021).
11/20 Our Journal Paper of "A Blockchain-Enabled Decentralized Energy Trading Mechanism for Islanded Networked Microgrids " was accepted to IEEE Access.
10/20: Our Journal Paper of "Optimal Tie-Line and Battery Sizing for Remote Provisional Microgrids " was accepted to IET Generation, Transmission, and Distribution.
08/20: I was elevated to IEEE Senior Member Grade.
04/20: Our paper of " Optimal Seasonal Wind Curtailment for Islanded Provisional Microgrid Operation " was accepted in IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2020).
01/20 Journal Paper of "Optimal Wind DG Integration for Security Risk-Based Line Overload Enhancement: A Two Stage Approach " was accepted to IEEE Access.
10/2019: I was appointed as an Associate Editor for IET Journal of Engineering
09/2019: A paper of " Impact of Seasonal Net Load Variation on Load Shedding Ratio in Islanded Microgrid Operation" was accepted in 2019 North America Power Symposium (NAPS 2019).
06/2019: A journal paper of " Correlating Optimal Size, Cycle Life Estimation, and Technology Selection of Batteries: A Two-Stage Approach for Microgrid Applications " was accepted in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.
My undergraduate students group will participate in the student poster competition at IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2018). "Good Luck"
09/2018: Our paper of " Optimal Penetration of Wind DG and VAR Compensation for Voltage Stability Improvement " was accepted in IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2018). (work with Undergraduate students).
2/2018: Our poster of "Optimal Penetration Factor of Wind Distributed Generation to Improve Voltage Stability in a Weak Distributed Network " was accepted and presented at IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI 2018). "Out come of the work with Undergraduate students who were a recipients of a creative and discovery research award at Marshall University "
01/2018: Our paper of " Optimal Sizing of Battery Storage Systems for Microgrid Expansion Applications " was accepted in IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2018).
12/2017: We were Awarded Creative Discovery Research Award by the Marshall University Research Cooperation (Mentor of 3 Undergraduate Students)
08/2017: Our paper of "Sizing of Large-Scale Battery Storage Systems for Off-Grid Wind Power Plant Considering a Flexible Wind Supply-Demand Balance " was accepted to IET Renewable Power Generation.
06/2017: Our paper of " Impact of Aggregated EVs Charging Station on the optimal Scheduling of Battery Storage System in Islanded Microgrid" was accepted in 2017 North America Power Symposium (NAPS 2017).
02/2017: Our paper of " Probabilistic Quantification of Wind Power Curtailment Based on Intra-Seasonal Wind Forecasting Approach" was accepted in 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting
02/2017: Our paper of " Placement and Sizing of Parallel Reactive Power Compensation in the Presence of Distributed Generation for Line Loss Reduction" was accepted in IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2017).
01/2017: Our paper of "Placement of Large Scale Utility-Owned Wind Distributed Generation Based on Probabilistic Forecasting of Line Congestion " was accepted to IET Renewable Power Generation.
11/2016: Kofi Hagan, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations, Kofi!
11/2016: Olufemi Oyebanjo, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations, Olufemi!
07/2016: Our paper of " Fault Current Contribution of Renewable Distributed Generation: An Overview and Key Issues" was accepted to IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2016).
06/2016: Our paper of " Optimal Allocation of SCIG and DFIG Based Distributed Generation Considering Load Uncertainty and Line Outage: A comparative Study " was accepted to IEEE PES Conference on InnovativeSmart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2016).
04/2016: Graduate student Olufemi Oyebanjo received the second prize in the Graduate Student Poster competition at the college of Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Congratulations Olufemi!
03/2016: Geethika Nannapaneni, successfully defended her master thesis. Congratulations, Geethika!
03/2016: Our paper of " Optimal Placement and Sizing of Distributed Generation-Based Wind Energy Considering Optimal Self VAR Control " was accepted to IET Renewable Power Generation.
12/2015: Our paper of " A Probabilistic Forecasting Model for Accurate Estimation of PV Solar and Wind Power Generation" was accepted to IEEE Power Energy Conference at Illinois 2016 (PECI 2016).
06/2015: Our paper of " A Comprehensive Analysis of Voltage Stability Indices in the Presence of Distributed Generation " was accepted to IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2015).