S. Massoud Amin

Friday, April 16, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Room 205, 8 St. Mary’s St.
(Photonics Building)

Director, Technological Leadership Institute
Honeywell/H.W. Sweat Chair in Technological Leadership
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
University of Minnesota

Dr. Amin’s CEESI Colloquium Presentation

“Stronger, Smarter and Greener Power Grid: Toward Increasingly Efficient, Secure, Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure System”

Recent policies combined with potential for technological innovations and business opportunities, have attracted a high level of interest in smart grids. The potential for a highly distributed system with a high penetration of renewable sources that exhibit variable generation and non-dispatchability poses opportunities and challenges. How to retrofit and engineer a stable, resilient grid with large numbers of such unpredictable power sources? What roles will assets optimization, increased efficiency, energy storage, advanced power electronics, power quality, electrification of transportation, novel control algorithms, cyber security, policies and technologies play in the grid of the future?

S. Massoud Amin holds the Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, directs the Technological Leadership Institute (TLI), is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota. His areas of expertise include: Systems and Controls; Smart Grids; Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and Security; Development and Management of R&D initiatives; Strategic Planning and Implementation. Dr. Amin is the author or co-author of more than 180 peer reviewed research papers, and is the editor of seven collections of manuscripts. He has served on several boards including the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2001-2007), the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BMSA) at the National Academy of Sciences (2006-2009), and is a member of the editorial boards of six academic journals.He received two Chauncey Awards at the Electric Power Research Institute, the institute’s highest honor.