CURENT NSF/DOE Engineering Research Center Overview
Date / Time
April 22, 202012:00 - 1:00pm
Contact
Anne Jakle, ajakle@epscor.unm.edu
Presenter: Kevin Tomsovic, Director of CURENT, CTI Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Tennessee
CURENT, Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks, is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center that is jointly supported by NSF (National Science Foundation) and the DoE (Department of Energy). The Center’s vision is a nation-wide or continent-wide transmission grid that is fully monitored and dynamically controlled in real-time for high efficiency, high reliability, low cost, better accommodation of renewable energy sources, full utilization of energy storage, and accommodation of responsive load. In addition, the Center has workforce development and outreach missions, and envisions a new generation of electric power and energy systems engineering leaders with global perspectives and diverse backgrounds. CURENT is a collaboration between academia, industry, and national laboratories, CURENT is led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Partner institutions include Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Tuskegee University. In this webinar, Director of CURENT, Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, will provide an overview of CURENT’s research areas and programs, specifically emphasizing areas of interest to NM SMART Grid Center team members.
Bio: Kevin Tomsovic is currently CTI Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Tennessee, and director of CURENT, a National Science Foundation and Department of Energy Engineering Research Center. He received the BS from Michigan Tech. University, Houghton, in 1982, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees from University of Washington, Seattle, in 1984 and 1987, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1992-2008, he was a Professor at Washington State University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Visiting university positions have included National Cheng Kung University, National Sun Yat-Sen University and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He held the Advanced Technology for Electrical Energy Chair at Kumamoto University in Japan from 1999- 2000 and was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Electrical and Communications Systems division of the Engineering directorate from 2004-2006. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.