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Dr. Saifur Rahman Named 2022 IEEE President-Elect
Dr. Saifur Rahman, Joseph Loring Professor and Director of the Advanced Research Institute, and IEEE Life Fellow, has been elected as the 2022 IEEE President-Elect. Dr. Rahman will begin serving as IEEE President on 1 January 2023. He will succeed 2022 IEEE President K.J. Ray Liu. Professor Rahman is also the first EE/ ECE faculty member at Virginia Tech to be elected to the IEEE Presidency in the department's 140-year history.
Dr. Mona Ghassemi Receives Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award
Dr. Mona Ghassemi has received the Department of Energy's Early Career Research Award, $750,000 grant for five years, to develop a complete plasma model from discharge initiation to flashover to predict electrical breakdown in electrical insulating systems. Dr. Ghassemi was also the recipient of the 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and 2020 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award. She is the only faculty with 3 Career awards at Virginia Tech. She received her three Career awards from three different agencies: NSF, DOD, and DOE.
Welcome Dr. Richard Zhang
Welcome to Dr. Richard Zhang who joined CPES and PEC in Fall 2021. Dr. Zhang received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. Richard Zhang was named the Hugh P. and Ethel C. Kelly Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Richard is a Fellow of IEEE for his technical leadership in the development of high-power electronics. Prior to joining VT, Dr. Zhang was the Chief Technology Officer of GE Grid Integration Solutions in Stafford, UK.
Dominion Energy Gives Generous Gift to PEC
The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Virginia Tech recently received a donation of a $245,000 Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) from Dominion Energy. Marked as an essential piece of research equipment, ECE students will now be able to run real-time simulations of electric power systems employing the same tools used by experts across the electric energy industry. The RTDS allows engineers to model the electric grid in the most realistic way possible and analyze scenarios that impact how the electric grid operates.
EnVision Forum 2021
"Future of Electric Energy for an Industry in Transformation"
Initiated by Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) partnered with VT PEC and CPES to co-host the second annual EnVision Forum that brought together leading thinkers, universities, government partners, and corporate entities to discuss, share and innovate in a series of panel sessions during April 26-27, 2021.
Updates for Fall 2021
The industry membership funding made it possible for PEC to renovate the student cubicles in Room 621 Whittemore and inaugurate the "Cyber-Power Lab." Through funding from Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), the RTDS in Room 621 is linked through optical fibers to the Resilient Renewable Energy Grid Adaptation Laboratory (REGAL) in Room 434 Whittemore.
A series of PEC Seminars has been initiated in Fall 2021. The monthly seminars are attended by faculty, graduate students as well as industry/government collaborators and friends. Featured distinguished speakers are: Saifur Rahman; Joseph Loring Professor; Richard Zhang, Hugh P. and Ethel C. Kelly Professor; Ben Kroposki, Director - Power Systems Engineering Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; and Mark Lauby, Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer at North American Electric Reliability Corporation(NERC).
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