CURENT’s 2019 Industry Day and NSF/DOE Site Visit
CURENT’s 8th Annual Industry Day and NSF/DOE Site Visit was held on Nov. 5-6, 2019. Tuesday, Nov. 5th was Industry Day and the NSF/DOE Site Visit was on Wednesday, Nov. 6th.
Conference
This year's site visit was held at the downtown Hilton at 501 W Church Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. The Hilton is less than 1/2 mile from CURENT headquarters.
Agenda Event Guide
An agenda for the event is here. A copy of the event guide is here.
Helpful Maps
Industry Speakers
Gilbert Bindewald, Director of Grid Communications and Control, Office of Electricity, U.S. Department of Energy - DOE Grid Research in Transmission. (Gil Bindewald is replacing Michael Pesin who is unable to attend)
Burak Ozpineci, Group Leader, Power Electronics and Electric Machinery, ORNL - Charging of Electric Vehicles
Hao Huang, Technology Chief, GE Aviation – New Roadmap, New Challenges, New Aviation Era
Emanuel Bernadeau, Director Applied Innovation & Analytics, PJM – 3 Things You Need to Know About Electricity Markets
Nick Miller, Principal, HickoryLedge LLC – Power System Operation is a Near Zero Carbon Grid
Jiuping Pan, Senior Principal Scientist, ABB - Grid Enhancement and Modernization with HVDC Transmission Technologies
Said Sidiqi, Senior Program Manager, TVA - Diversity and Inclusion at TVA (Cancelled, unable to attend)
Faculty Presentations
Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, CURENT Center Director, UTK - CURENT Overview
Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, CURENT Center Director, UTK - Infrastructure and Sustainability
Dr. Yilu Liu, Deputy Director and Thrust Leader - Monitoring Thrust Overview
Dr. Ali Abur, NEU Campus Director and Thrust Leader - Modeling & Estimation Thrust Overview
Dr. Joe Chow, RPI Campus Director and Thrust Leader - Control Thrust Overview
Dr. Fred Wang, Technical Director and Thrust Leader - Actuation Thrust Overview
Dr. Leon Tolbert, Thrust Leader - CURENT Engineered Systems Overview
Lisa Beard, Industry Liaison - Industry Collaboration and Innovation Program Overview
Dr. Daniel Costinett - Co-Director of Education - Culture of Inclusion and Diversity
Dr. Anne Skutnik - Education Coordinator - University and Pre-College Education
Lodging
Sleeping rooms were blocked at the Downtown Hilton and at Four Points (about 3 blocks ways from Hilton and 1 block from Min H. Kao building).
Downtown Hilton - 501 W Church Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902
Four Points - 1109 White Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916
