January 2025
Advancing the Sustainability of Thermosets: Recycling and Redesign
Presented by Dr. Baoming Zhao, Staff Scientist, Composite Materials and Engineering Center, WSU
Abstract:
Plastics play a vital role in our daily lives; however, their widespread use raises concerns about their environmental impact. While substantial progress has been made in recycling…
Join Engineering and Technology Management (ETM) faculty and staff for a deeper dive into how pursuing a master’s degree or graduate certificate can enhance your skills and advance your career in engineering and technology management. In this virtual information session, we’ll cover course curriculum and delivery, new changes to the master’s degree core requirements, the admissions process, certificate options, and more.
On the 4th Monday of each month, the Engineering Education Research Center and Community Leadership Council will host a gathering to discuss a paper about engineering or architecture education research. Pizza and soda are provided. All faculty, staff, students, and postdocs are invited. The reading for Jan 27 is “The Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education: Longitudinal Impact on Initially Underprepared Students”. We hope that everyone can read the paper prior to the event, but all are welcome even if they haven’t read it yet.
SPEAKER: Dr. Huiyun Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, WSU
Modern power systems face significant operational challenges due to the accelerated and much-needed deployment of decentralized renewable generation. Such deployment has increased power imbalances leading to increased reserve requirements in power transmission grids and is causing operational issues in power distribution grids associated with the delivered quality-of-service (especially concerning voltage quality) as well as lines and transformers congestions. A potential solution to tackle these challenges is to define efficient and scalable control frameworks in active distribution networks (ADNs) capable of: (i) satisfying the local ADNs’ constraints and (ii) aggregating heterogeneous resources at different timescales to provide ancillary services to the transmission network. This work proposes a control and scheduling framework that tracks a pre-defined power profile (dispatch plan) at the grid connection point (GCP) of an ADN while ensuring that the grid states (i.e., the nodal voltages and lines/transformer power/current flows) remain within the prescribed limits. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm by field experiments on real distribution systems installed with controllable energy storage systems and photovoltaic plants as well as fast EV charging stations.
Data-driven discovery of materials for sustainable energy generation
Presented by Dr. Bokinala Moses Abraham, Fulbright Kalam Climate Fellow, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia.
Join IEEE for a resume and networking workshop to help prepare for the WSU Spring 2025 Career Expo.
Presented by Sandi Brabb, VCEA Director of Internships and Career Services.