CURENT’s 2019 Industry Day and NSF/DOE Site Visit 

CURENT’s 8th Annual Industry Day and NSF/DOE Site Visit was held on Nov. 5-6, 2019. Tuesday, Nov. 5th was Industry Day and the NSF/DOE Site Visit was on Wednesday, Nov. 6th. 

Conference

This year’s site visit was held at the downtown Hilton at 501 W Church Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. The Hilton is less than 1/2 mile from CURENT headquarters. 

Industry Speakers 

Gilbert Bindewald, Director of Grid Communications and Control, Office of Electricity, U.S. Department of Energy – DOE Grid Research in Transmission. (Gil Bindewald is replacing Michael Pesin who is unable to attend)

Burak Ozpineci, Group Leader, Power Electronics and Electric Machinery, ORNL – Charging of Electric Vehicles

Hao Huang, Technology Chief, GE Aviation  – New Roadmap, New Challenges, New Aviation Era

Emanuel Bernadeau, Director Applied Innovation & Analytics, PJM – 3 Things You Need to Know About Electricity Markets

Nick Miller, Principal, HickoryLedge LLC – Power System Operation is a Near Zero Carbon Grid

Jiuping Pan, Senior Principal Scientist, ABB – Grid Enhancement and Modernization with HVDC Transmission Technologies

Said Sidiqi, Senior Program Manager, TVA – Diversity and Inclusion at TVA (Cancelled, unable to attend)

Faculty Presentations 

Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, CURENT Center Director, UTK – CURENT Overview

Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, CURENT Center Director, UTK – Infrastructure and Sustainability

Dr. Yilu Liu, Deputy Director and Thrust Leader – Monitoring Thrust Overview

Dr. Ali Abur, NEU Campus Director and Thrust Leader – Modeling & Estimation Thrust Overview

Dr. Joe Chow, RPI Campus Director and Thrust Leader – Control Thrust Overview

Dr. Fred Wang, Technical Director and Thrust Leader – Actuation Thrust Overview

Dr. Leon Tolbert, Thrust Leader – CURENT Engineered Systems Overview

Lisa Beard, Industry Liaison – Industry Collaboration and Innovation Program Overview

Dr. Daniel Costinett – Co-Director of Education – Culture of Inclusion and Diversity

Dr. Anne Skutnik – Education Coordinator – University and Pre-College Education

Lodging

Sleeping rooms were blocked at the Downtown Hilton and at Four Points (about 3 blocks ways from Hilton and 1 block from Min H. Kao building).  

Downtown Hilton – 501 W Church Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902

Four Points – 1109 White Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916