This page provides information on the weekly EPES seminars. The seminars take place every Tuesday at 1:00 p.m., in ECpE Building Addition 3041 (adjacent to Coover Hall), and are listed under EE 594 (1-credit course). The speakers are invited from academic and industrial organizations that are involved in all aspects of electric power engineering. If you are interested in presenting your work at one of our seminars, please contact Dr. Dionysios Aliprantis.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 25-Aug | Mark Steffen, Enervation, LLC |
Developing Locally Owned Wind Farms [abstract;
slides] |
| 1-Sep | PSERC seminar by Prof. Hamid Toliyat, TAMU
| Recent Advances in Energy Conversion and Storage [anouncement] |
| 8-Sep | Prof. Dean Patterson, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln |
Solar and Alternative Energy—The Engineering Issues [abstract;
slides] |
| 15-Sep | PSERC seminar (pre-recorded) | TBA |
| 22-Sep | Dr. Enis Tuncer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Applied High Temperature Superconductivity Research at ORNL [abstract] |
| 29-Sep | Prof. Ganesh Rajagopalan, AerE,
ISU | Wind Energy Research
[abstract] |
| 6-Oct | PSERC seminar by Prof. Judy Cardell, Smith College
| Analyzing the System Costs of Wind Variability |
| 13-Oct | Zakaria Joundi, Midwest ISO | Generation Interconnection Process Overview |
| 20-Oct | Prof. Dionysios Aliprantis, ECpE, ISU | Wind Generator Basics (presented at Wind Technology Short Course,
in Scheman Building) |
| 27-Oct | Cynthia Lord, Alliant Energy |
Rankine Cycle Power Generation |
| 3-Nov | PSERC seminar by Prof. Duncan Callaway, University of California, Berkeley |
Aggregated Electricity Load Modeling and Control for Regulation and Load Following Ancillary Services |
| 10-Nov | Richard Free and Karl-Heinz Mertins, John Deere Wind Energy |
So John Deere has started to develop a wind farm .... what comes next? |
| 17-Nov | Prof. Ayman Fayed, ECpE, ISU |
Integrated Power Management for Mixed-Signal SoCs: Challenges & Solutions |
| 24-Nov | THANKSGIVING | |
| 1-Dec | Louie Ervin, CIPCO | TBA |
| 8-Dec | PSERC seminar | TBA |
| 15-Dec | FINALS WEEK |
