SEL Donates Real-Time Automation Controllers to NC State

Aug 13, 2020

SEL Donates Real-Time Automation Controllers to NC State

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) recently donated a dozen Real-Time Automation Controllers (RTACs) for use in the Power Systems Teaching Lab at NC State. RTACs are used in electric substations for utility SCADA and substation automation. “Our students will use these RTACs to learn how to develop utility communication and automation applications,” said Dr. David Lubkeman,…

Jul 29, 2020

Tech Webinar Recap: Building a Better Battery Model

View the recorded webinar Presenters: Fuhong Xie, PhD Candidate and Professor Ning Lu, NC State ECE Department & FREEDM Faculty Batteries can provide a whole host of benefits to the electric grid. But before anything is physically connected to the power system, utility engineers need to create accurate numerical models and run hundreds of simulations…

Jun 19, 2020

FREEDM Welcomes New Member Danfoss

Danfoss is a global leader in engineering advanced technologies, like AC drives, that work to build a better, smarter, more efficient world. Founded in 1933 in Denmark to manufacture the first thermostatic expansion valves for refrigeration systems and then radiator thermostats to regulate heating, the company now employs 28,000 globally and its solutions are used in a wide variety of industries, from refrigeration and air conditioning…

Jun 5, 2020

Tech Webinar Recap: Medium-Voltage Modular Extreme Fast Charging System

June 4, 2020 View the recorded presentation The US DOE Vehicle Technologies Office has a goal of recharging electric vehicles in under 15 minutes. This requires research in battery chemistry and in extreme fast charging systems rated at hundreds of kilowatts. They selected NC State and FREEDM to lead a team, including ABB and New…

Jun 3, 2020

Spotlight on FREEDM’s Role in Advancing Grid Resiliency

This article, written by Tom Gibson for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, highlights FREEDM’s role in advancing grid resiliency and addressing vulnerabilities through hardware and software innovations. https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/engineering-ways-to-improve-electrical-grid-resilience

Feb 26, 2020

NC State University Students Receive 2019/2020 PES Scholarships

Each year the IEEE Power & Energy Society awards promising students scholarships through its Scholarship Plus Initiative. This year, one hundred and thirty five students were selected from 78 U.S., Puerto Rico & Canadian universities. The initiative recognizes undergraduate students who have declared a major in electrical and computer engineering, are high achievers with strong…

Feb 3, 2020

Schneider Electric Holds Design Thinking Workshop at NC State

NC State students spent some time this week Going Green with help from Schneider Electric. Part of their incentive was to win some green (cash money!) and a trip to Las Vegas. But they were also motivated to do some good for the world. Katie White, HR Specialist with Scheider, started the workshop with a…

Dec 13, 2019

Professor Doug Hopkins joins iMaps Exec. Council

Prof. Douglas C Hopkins, Ph.D., NC State University Research Professor, FREEDM Faculty and Director of the Laboratory for Packaging Research in Electronic Energy Systems (PREES), has joined the Executive Council of the International Microelectronic Assembly and Packaging Society (iMaps). IMAPS leads the microelectronics packaging, interconnect and assembly community, providing means of communicating, educating and interacting…

Dec 13, 2019

FREEDM Open Source Microgrid Applications

Everybody today wants a microgrid even though most people don’t exactly understand what that means. Like the time I ordered my first cappuccino from Starbucks. It sounded cool and I’d seen other people getting them. After my first sip, I complained to my friend. “This is nothing but foam!” His response was classic. “That’s what…

Dec 12, 2019

Register Today for the January 2020 FREEDM Tech Webinar

REGISTER HERE Presenters: Sourish Sankar Sinha and Prof. Douglas C. Hopkins, NC State University Guest Presenter: tbd Title: ParaPower: Leveraging Finite Difference Simulator for Quick Thermal Design Presented is an introduction to ParaPower, a new open-source FDA simulator from the Army Research Lab. The tool is demonstrated on a solid-state circuit breaker under transient fault…

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