Student spotlight
Jing Xue, a Ph.D. candidate in
CURENT, recently spent three
months interning at Rockwell Automation. Jing served as an Electrical
Engineer Intern, and assisted in the
design of EMI filters and capacitors
for high-powered motor drives.
Hayden Dahmm, a
junior at Swarthmore
College, participated
in the 2014 Research
Experience for
Undergraduates
(REU).
Hayden has intersts in
renewable energy and
engineering. Pictured
is Hayden and his guide
dog, Fathom.
Summer Church,
a sophomore in
electrical engineering,
interned during
the summer at
Johnson City
Power Board.
Summer has also
participated in
research, outreach,
and was an
Ambassador with
CURENT during the
2013-2014 school year.
May Mahmoudi won 2nd
Place at the 2014 IEEE Power
and Energy Systems poster
contest.
Her poster was entitled:
Distributed Control Schemes
for Damping Inter-area
Oscillations
Other Recent Internships
Derek Kou
is the 20142015 Student
Leadership Council
President. Derek
was previously
the External Vice
President.
Ikponmwosa Idehen won best paper
at the NSF 2014 Site Visit Industry Day.
His paper was entitled: A Method for
Distributed Control of Reactive Power
and Voltage in a Power Grid: A Game
Theoretic Approach.
C ongratulations to the recent graduates within the
center. the following students completed their sutdies at
CURENT in Spring 2014:
• Lily Hoang, BS, ENERCON Services
• Elisa Cheng, MS, Jacobs Engineering
• Ikponmwosa Idehen, MS, University of Illinois
• Bailu Xiao, Post-Doc Researcher, ORNL
• Zhibo Wang, Post-Doc Researcher, Wahan University
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Mwamba Bowa
ORNL/MDF
Saajid Haque
Alcoa
Mathew Lambert
EPRI
Stephanie Steren-Ruta
Southern Company
Micah Till
Dominion Virginia Power
Linquan Bai
ABB
Ben Guo
ABB & United Technologies
Kumaraguru Prabakar
Ford Motor
Ling Wu
Dominion Virginia Power
Yao Xu
Enernex
Maryam Hassan Variani
ERCOT