Establishment of Collaborative Research Programmes in Power Systems between Cardiff University and Mississippi State University (USA)

美国密西西比州立大学巴格利工程学院（MSU）于2007年与卡迪夫大学建立了交流和研究合作谅解备忘录。这包括卡迪夫大学和密歇根州立大学之间的几次短期访问交流。两所院校和一些主要研究人员之间的伙伴关系现已足够成熟，并已达到一个阶段，需要通过扩大学术人员/研究人员/学生交流、合作研究项目和其他伙伴关系进行长期合作。该提案旨在与密歇根州立大学的研究人员建立未来的合作研究计划，并启动有关电力系统安全和包括微型发电在内的分布式发电集成的研究计划。此外，还将探讨美英两国在电力网络领域的经验交流。建议通过舒尔茨博士对卡迪夫大学最初5个月的访问来实现这一目标。拟议的活动计划在以下四个主要领域和报告中提出，(i)可再生能源系统的建模和集成（ii）智能电网和系统级安全（iii）确定未来合作计划的范围和启动（iv）其他活动包括教学，研讨会和访问其他英国大学。

Bagley College of Engineering of Mississippi State University (MSU), USA, established a Memo of Understanding (MOU) for exchanges and research collaborations with Cardiff University in 2007. This has involved several short visit exchanges of faculty between Cardiff and MSU. The partnership between the two institutions and some key researchers has now matured enough and reached a stage when a longer-term collaboration through extended academic staff / researcher / student exchanges, collaborative research projects and other partnerships is required. This proposal seeks to establish future collaborative research programmes with MSU researchers and initiate research programmes on security of electrical systems and integration of distributed generation including microgeneration. In addition, exchange of experience between the US and UK in the area of electrical energy networks will be explored. It is proposed to achieve this objective through an initial 5 months visit by Dr Schulz to Cardiff University. The proposed programme of activities is presented in the following four main areas and reporting, (i) Modelling and integration of renewable energy systems (ii) Smart grids and system-level security(iii) Scoping and initiation of future collaborative programmes(iv) Other activities to include teaching, seminars and visitits to other UK universties.