ECE Chairs Seminar Series - Research Activities at the Department of Electrical Engineering - University of Arkansas

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The Electrical and Computer Engineering department will be hosting a seminar featuring Juan Carlos Balda, University Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Arkansas. The topic of the seminar will be Research Activities at the Department of Electrical Engineering - University of Arkansas.

Abstract

This seminar is divided in three parts. The first part provides a summary of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (AR), the College of Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering. The second part addresses the work in the various research centers housed in the department, in particular, the High Density Electronics Center (HiDEC), the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission, and the two newest centers, one is the NSF ERC Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS) and a DOE Cyber Security Center for Energy Delivery Systems. The third part will address research work performed by Dr. Balda in the area of solid-state transformers and microgrids.

Speaker Bio

Juan Carlos Balda (IEEE M'78 SM'94) received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Bahía Blanca, Argentina) in 1979. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Natal (Durban, South Africa) in 1986. He was then employed as a researcher and a part-time lecturer at the University of Natal until July 1987. He then spent two years as a visiting Assistant Professor at Clemson University, South Carolina. He has been at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville since July 1989 where he is currently a University Professor, Department Head, associate director for applications of the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT) and campus director for the NSF IUCRC Grid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES). His main research interests are Power Electronics, Electric Power Distribution Systems, Motor Drives and Electric Power Quality. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the Power Electronics and Power & Energy Societies, and the honor society Eta Kappa Nu. He is also a vice-chair of IEEE PELS TC5 committee and faculty advisor to the local chapter of the IEEE Power Electronics Society.

Note: If you need more information regarding this seminar, please contact Dr. Jia Wang in ECE, IIT. Phone: 7-3696, Email: jwang@ece.iit.edu