CAREER: Available Transfer Capability of Deregulated Power Systems: A Nonlinear Predictive Approach

这份职业建议书侧重于伊利诺伊理工学院电气和计算机工程系本科生和研究生课程的研究和教学一体化。首席调查员(PI)正在与业界合作开发电压崩溃的应急筛选工具，该工具将在任何发电机组故障、任何单分支故障或任何多端分支故障的情况下预测故障发生的距离。此外，PI正在开设工业驱动和电力电子的新本科课程，以及电力交易管理的新研究生课程。最后，国际电力协会正在与产业界发展新的关系，以吸引学生和教师参加美国电力会议，从而促进令人着迷的电力工程领域的发展。未来四年，国际电力协会的研究议程集中在研究和开发稳健和高效的计算工具，以分析竞争环境下大规模电力系统的非线性稳态行为。PI的教育议程以本科生和研究生在(I)大型电力系统的稳定和控制、(Ii)工业驱动和(Iii)电力电子领域的新发现机会为中心。PI的服务议程集中在为电力行业招聘有才华的工程师。这份职业发展计划将在电力工程学科需要的时候帮助它，就是现在！电力行业正面临着放松管制带来的巨大挑战。挑战是显而易见的：电力工程被本科生视为一个缓慢消亡的领域，没有任何职业潜力，而与此同时，电力行业迫切需要吸引新的工程师来建设、运营、维护、控制和管理分布式发电厂、紧密编织的输电网络、重要的配电资本和自由的客户服务市场。这项建议的目标是将研究和教学结合起来，直接结果是工业界将从这两项活动中受益。

ECS-9875109FlueckThis CAREER proposal focuses on the integration of research and teaching in the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The Principal Investigator (PI) is collaborating with industry to develop a contingency screening tool for voltage collapse that will predict the distance to collapse given any generator unit outage, any single branch outage, or any multiterminal branch outage. In addition, the PI is creating new undergraduate courses on Industrial Drives and Power Electronics, and new graduate courses on Power Transaction Management. Lastly, the PI is developing new relationships with industry to attract students and faculty to the American Power Conference, thereby promoting the fascinating field of power engineering.The PI's research agenda for the next four years is centered on the research and development of robust and efficient computational tools for analyzing nonlinear steady-state behavior of large-scale electric power systems in a competitive environment. The PI's educational agenda is centered on new discovery opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of (i) stability and control of large-scale power systems, (ii) industrial drives, and (iii) power electronics. The PI's service agenda is centered on the recruitment of talented engineers for the electric power industry.This Career Development Plan will help the power engineering discipline in its time of need, which is now! The electric power industry is facing a tremendous challenge brought on by deregulation. The challenge is obvious: power engineering is seen by undergraduates as a slowly dying field that does not have any career potential, while at the same time the electric power industry is in dire need of attracting new engineers to build, operate, maintain, control, and manage the distributed power generating plants, the tightly woven web of transmission networks, the vital distribution capallaries, and the liberated customer service market. The goal of this proposal is to integrate research and teaching with the direct result that industry will benefit from both activities.