Graduate Student Thesis Projects

• Research Focus: Smart Grid Communications & Protection, Substation Digitalization
  
• Support: Michigan Tech GTA

• Research Focus: Transient Simulation, HIL, Smart Grid Protection, Substation Digitalization
  
• Support: Michigan Tech GTA, DTE GRA

• Research Focus: Smart Grid Protection, Substation Digitalization
  
• Support: Norwegian Research Council / NTNU

• Report Title: Protection in Utility Systems with DER
• Support: Consumers Energy Masters Fellowship
• Employer: 

• Research Focus: Wide Area ....
  
• Support: GTA
  

• Report Title: Adaptive Protection for Utility Microgrids
• Support: GTA
• Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Labs,
  

• Research Focus: Transient Simulation, Nonlinear Dynamics, Relay Protection, Smart Grid Applications
  
• Support: Xcel Energy, DOE/Bonneville Power
• Honors: 
• Outstanding Scholarship Award, ECE Dept, Michigan Tech University
• Michigan Tech PhD Finishing Fellowship
  
• Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Labs, Pullman, WA

• Research Focus: Wide Area Control & Protection, Smart Grid Applications (Co-Advisor: Sumit Paudyal) 
  
• Support: Norwegian Research Council / NTNU
• Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Labs, Pullman, WA
  

• Research Focus: ATP Modeling for Internal Transformer Faults (Co-Advisor: Jeffery Burl)
  
• Support: GTA, DOE/Bonneville Power 
• Employer:
  

• Report Title: Impact of Inrush Currents and GICs on Transformer Behavior
  
• Support: GTA, Bonneville Power 
• Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Labs, Pullman, WA
  

• Dissertation Title: Time-Domain Voltage Stability Assessment and Wide-Area Control
  
• Support: SIU, Norwegian Research Council 
• Employer: Montana State University
  

• Coursework Masters: Transient Simulation
  
• Support: Xcel Energy
• Employer: Systems Control, Iron Mountain, MI
  

• Thesis Title: Stability Wide Area Control (Co-Advisor: Sumit Paudyal) 
• Support: GTA
• Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Labs, Pullman, WA

• Coursework Masters, Project involvement: Synchrophasors and Wide-Area Control
  
• Present Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Labs, Pullman, WA

• Thesis Title: Shunt Reactor Bank Switching Transients & Analysis 
• Support: Xcel Energy
• Present Employer: HDR Engineering

• Report Title: Implementation of Swing Center Voltage Method for Power Swing Detection Using Synchrophasor Technology (Co-Advisor: Sumit Paudyal)
  
• Support: GTA
• Present Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Labs, Pullman, WA

• Research Focus: EMTP Simulation of Wind Generators, SSR Issues at Wind Farm Interconnects
  
• Support: MTU GTA for one semester, Xcel Energy thereafter
• Present Employer: Alstom, Seattle, WA
  

• Dissertation Title: Collection System Design for DC Series Wind Farms
  
• Support: Norwegian Research Council / NTNU
• Honors
• Matt Wolfe Graduate Research Assistant Award, 2013.
  
• Employer: IIT, Mumbai, India
  

• Coursework Masters. Research Involvement: ATP Modeling of Switching Transients, Real Time DSP for Protection
  
• Support: GTA, Xcel Energy
  

• Coursework Masters. Research Involvement: Wide-Area Control of SVC, Emergengy Control , Voltage Collapse
  
• Support: GTA
  

• Report Title: Arc Flash Energy - Theoretical Basis and Prediction/Simulation Methods
  
• Support: Minnesota Power
• Present Employer: American Transmission Company
  

• Dissertation Title: Development of System Separation Strategy Using Synchrophasor Data
  
• Support: NED University, Pakistan
• Present Employer: Dept. Chair, Electrical Engineering Dept, NED University, Karachi
  

• Thesis Title: ATP Modeling for Internal Transformer Faults
  
• Support: Fulbright
  

• Dissertation Title: Wind Farm Interaction with Series-Compensated Power Systems
  
• Support: GTA, Xcel Energy
• Present Employer: Entergy Services, Jackson, MI. Sr Engineer, Technical Studies, Transmission Planning 
  

• Thesis Title: Application of DSP Filters for Transformer Protection
  
• Support: American Transmission Company, Xcel Energy
• Present Employer: SEL
  

• Dissertation Title: Transformer Modeling in ATP: Internal Faults and High-Frequency Discretization
  
• Support: CONACYT (National Council of Science & Technology of Mexico), Norwegian Research Council / Sintef Energy Research
• Present Employer: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Senior Engineer, ATS Smart Grid Applications & Testing
  

• Thesis Title: Time-Domain Modeling of High-Frequency Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Overhead Wires, and Earth
  
• Support: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Present Employer: Oak Ridge National Lab
  

• Coursework Masters, Project involvement: Synchrophasors and Wide-Area Control
  
• Present Employer: SEL
  

• Thesis Title: Transient Recover Voltages in Shunt Capacitor Bank Installations
  
• Support: Xcel Energy
  

• Coursework Masters. Project Involvement: Communications Channels through Power Infrastructure
• Support:  MTRI
  

• Coursework Masters. Research Focus: Transformer Modeling, Lab Measurements, Transient Simulation, Ferroresonance
  
• Support: MTU GTA; SINTEF Energy Research Transformer Performance Project, Trondheim, Norway; Xcel Energy
• Present Employer: S&C, Chicago, IL
  

• Coursework Project: Time-Domain Simulation of Impedance Trajectories During Faults and Stability Swings
  
• Support: Self Supported, Grad Coop at  Kewaunee Nuclear Plan, GTA
  
• Present Employer: Realtime Utility Engineers, Madison, WI
  

• Thesis Title: Power Swing and System Separation Based on Phasor-Domain Simulations
  
• Support: Self Supported during first semester; NSF thereafter.
• Present Employer: ITC - International Transmission, Novi, MI
  

• Report Title: Power System Protection during Stability Swings
  
• Support: Self Supported, Grading Assistant, GTA, Grad Coop at Wolverine Power
• Present Employer: Excel Engineering, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
  

• Thesis Title: Time Domain Models for Power System Stability and Unbalance
  
• Support: Self Supported; Grading Assistant; Grad Coop at Xcel Energy, Minneapolis, MN
  
• Present Employer: CG Global, Collegeville, PA
  

• Report Title: Phasor-Domain Modeling of Power System Stability Including Reduced Dynamic Equivalencing
  
• Support: Self Supported; Grading Assistant; GTA, Grad Coop at Xcel Energy, Minneapolis, MN
  
• Present Employer: American Transmission Company
  

• Report Title: Broadband over Power Line (BPL)
  
• Support: US-Norway Fulbright Fellowship; Self Supported
• Present Employer: E-Co Energy, Norway

• Coursework Project: Matlab GUI for Directional Overcurrent and Impedance Protection of Transmission Line
  
• Support: Self Supported; Grading Assistant; GTA
  
• Present Employer: Black & Veatch, Ann Arbor, MI
  

• Thesis Title: Transient Analysis of Single-Pole Switching Strategies
• Support: Self Supported; Xcel Energy GRA; Math Dept. Grader; Summer Intern at Electrocon (CAPE)
• Present Employer: Black & Veatch, Ann Arbor, MI
  

• Coursework Project: Frequency-Response Measurments of Power Line Carrier Components
  
• Support: Self Supported; Grading Assistant; Coop at Patrick Engineering, Detroit; GTA
  
• Present Employer: Patrick Engineering, Inc., Livonia, MI
  

• Coursework Project: ATP Modeling of Instrument Transformers for Power System Protection
  
• Support: Self Supported
  
• Present Employer: Shawano Municipal Utilities, Shawano, WI

• Research Focus: Transmission Grid Black Start Simulations
• Support: MAPP (Mid-Continent Area Power Pool); Co-Advisor: Leonard Bohmann
• Present Employer: Exelon Corp., Chicago, IL
  

• Dissertation Title: Parameter Estimation for Transformer Modeling
• Support: Xcel Energy
• Present Employer: Samsung Engineering & Construction Company, Seoul, Korea
  

• Report Title: Vibro-Acoustic Methods for Monitoring Transformer Operating States
• Support: Xcel Energy, Mich Tech GTA
• Present Employer: ProTek Devices , Tempe, AZ

• Report Title: Evaluation of an Algorithm to Predict Lyapunov Exponents of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
• Support: Mich Tech GTA (Computer Engineering)
• Present Employer: Motorola, Urbana, IL

• Report Title: Development of a Laboratory Test Setup Using LabVIEW for a Power Quality Study
• Support: Mich Tech GTA (Computer Engineering)
• Present Employer: Motorola, Urbana, IL

• Thesis Title: Time-Domain Modeling of Transmission Lines Using Finite Difference Techniques
• Support: Northern States Power, Minneapolis, MN
• Continued Education: Masters in Energy & Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, May 2001.
• Research Experience: Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment & Development(CISED), Bangalore, India, 2001-03. 
• Continued Education: PhD in Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mar 2008.
• Present Employer: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society
  

• Thesis Title: Development and Investigation of Anhysteretic Magnetic Core Models
• Support: NSF RIA Award & Mich Tech John Miles Fellowship
• Present Employer: Consumers Energy , Jackson, MI

• Thesis Title: System Protection Testing and Frequency Characteristics of Nonlinear CCVT Models
• Support: Consumers Energy, Jackson, MI and Northern States Power, Minneaplis, MN
• Present Employer: Epic Systems Corporation , Madison, WI

• Thesis Title: Investigation of Short Circuit Models for a Four-Winding Transformer
• Support: NSF RIA Award
• Present Employer: Boeing, Seattle, WA ?

• Dissertation Title: On Switching Transients and Nonlinear System Frequency Characteristics Related to Shunt Capacitor Banks
• Support: Northern States Power, Minneapolis, MN
• Present Employer: Northern Michigan University

• Thesis Title: Amorphous Core Transformer Model for Transient Simulation
• Support: NSF RIA Award
• Present Employer: Consumers Energy , Jackson, MI

• Thesis Title: Transient Modeling of Three-Legged Amorphous Core Transformer
• Support: NSF RIA Award
• Present Employer: International Computex, Inc, Atlanta, GA

• Thesis Title: Automated Measurement of Transformer Core Parameters
• Support: NSF RIA Award
• Present Employer: McKinsey & Co., Chicago, IL