Welcome
from the
Director
Dr. Kevin Tomsovic
Dear CURENT colleagues and supporters,
Welcome once again to our newsletter. In it, we’ll tell you about CURENT research, education and
industry happenings.
In this issue, we highlight some recent research results in dynamic state estimators for large-scale
power systems by Dr. Ali Abur, Dr. Hanoch Lev-Ari and Pengxiang Ren (PhD student); wide-area
measurement systems from our deputy director Dr. Yilu Liu; characterizing nonlinear power system
oscillations from Dr. Kai Sun; and missing data recovery of PMU measurements by Dr. Joe Chow
and Dr. Meng Wang. These updates are from research currently going on at our center.
Our industry members have grown over ten percent since last August. We now have 33 members
with several more indicating a desire to join. We launched our member web portal in January.
Please browse our website and let us know what you think. We also are continuing our monthly
industry seminars, which provide our students with invaluable information from seasoned
professionals and are usually webcast for industry as well. Several companies are taking full
advantage of our students and we presently have eight students on corporate internships. We are
interested in what we can do to provide industry with timely information, so please let us know
what we can do to be more effective.
Our 5th Annual Industry Meeting and Site Visit is set for Nov. 15th-17th. This meeting allows for the
annual NSF and DOE evaluation of the Center. It also lets us to share research highlights, show off
our laboratories and let people see all the work being done here. We value your participation and
look forward to showing you the value of the Center’s work.
It’s hard to believe we’ve been at this for five years, but as this fifth year progresses, I can reflect on
the how far we’ve come. We have a strong, established program. We have several mature research
projects. We hope we are a value-added partner to industry. All these things would not have been
possible without your support and participation in our center. For this, we thank you.
Please let us know if you have any ideas about how we can provide more value to your
organization. Your feedback and comments are crucial to us.
Sincerely,
Kevin Tomsovic
Mark your calendars.
Our 2016 site visit is coming up
in November at the Crown Plaza in downtown
Knoxville, TN. We hope to see you then.
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