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