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Parvania Receives 2019 Faculty Recognition Award
Dr. Parvania receives a 2019 Faculty Recognition Award from the Career & Professional Development Center at the University of Utah.
Nominated by students, the award aims to recognize faculty members who have contributed to career development or exploration of students in University of Utah.
The awardees were recognized during the awards banquet held on April 2, 2019, at the University of Utah Alumni House.
More information at https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/rewarding-professionals/.
Brian Smith Received 2019 Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior Project Award
Brian Lehi Smith, Senior undergraduate student at U-Smart received the 2019 Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior Project Award in the ECE Department at University of Utah. The Award was given during the ECE Awards banquet on April 12, 2019.
Brian’s project developed a new model for controlling supercapacitors for high-dynamic load management in MVDC shipboard microgrids. This project was mentored by Mohammed Masum Siraj Khan, a PhD student in U-Smart Lab.
Brian was also a student of the NROTC program at the Department of Naval Science at the University of Utah, and is starting his career as a Surface Warfare Officer on the USS Thomas Hudner.
$4.4M Department of Energy Award to Develop Automated Resilience Management System (ARMS)
Utah Smart Energy Laboratory (U-Smart) has received a three-year, $4.4 million research award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance solar energy’s role in strengthening the resilience of the U.S. electricity grid. This project will develop an automated resilience management system (ARMS) to enhance the city’s power grid in case of a power outage.
The project partners include PacifiCorp, Utah Governor’s Office of Energy Development, Idaho National Laboratory and Washington State University. Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp, which services more than one million customers in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho, will work with the Utah Smart Energy Laboratory to test and validate the technology at multiple locations in Utah.
Read more: UNews, EurekAlert!, newswise, ABC4
Energy-Water Research Featured in 2019 Student Innovation @ the U
Konstantinos Oikonomou’s research on water-energy nexus is featured by the Lassonde Entrepreneurship Institute at the University of Utah in their 2019 Student Innovation @ the U report. Great job Konstantinos! Read the article online: https://lassonde.utah.edu/saving-water-energy/
Department of Energy Selects $36 Million to Advance Solar Energy Integration
U.S. Department of Energy
U-Smart Team Participates in DOE CyberForce Competition
A team of four U-Smart students participated in the U.S. DOE CyberForce Competition, and stood in the second place at the regional competition held on Dec. 1, 2018, at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The U-Smart team included Jonathon Brugman, AmarachiUmunnakwe, MohammedKhan, and Philip Smith.
The competition aimed to increase cybersecurity awareness around energy-critical infrastructure and enable participators tackle real-world cybersecurity challenges. The teams defended simulated oil transportation network, power delivery system and high performance computing system.
Other participating teams in the regional competition included Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University–Idaho, Idaho State University, LDS Business College.
Visit the DOE’s CyberForce Competition website for more information on the event.
U-Smart Receives $2 million Grant to Enhance the Cyber-Physical Resiliency of Power Grid
The U-Smart lab is awarded a three-year, $2 million grant from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research beginning July 1 to develop the next generation of microgrid controllers with built-in cyber-security solutions.
As part of this project, U-Smart will build and host a testbed to test and validate the microgrid controllers. U-Smart will also partner with the Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) initiative, Governor’s Office of Energy Development, Idaho National Lab and the U’s Office of Technology and Venture Commercialization to commercialize the technologies developed through the project.
Read more: UNews, EurekAlert!, newswise, DeseretNews, KSL, Utah Business, ASEE First Bell, CyberWar.News
Parvania Receives 2017 IEEE Utah Section Outstanding Educator Award
Dr. Parvania receives the 2017 IEEE Utah Section Outstanding Educator Award. The award was given during the Awards banquet held on May 19, 2018.
The Outstanding Educator Award is given annually to a IEEE member who have inspired an appreciation and understanding of Mathematics, Science and Technology and the engineering process in students, and who have encouraged students to pursue technical careers.
Related news in IEEE Utah Section website: http://sites.ieee.org/utah/2017/06/06/2017-ieee-utah-section-award-recipients/
Parvania Receives 2018 Engineering Educator of the Year Award from Utah Engineers Council
Dr. Masood Parvania, Director of the Utah Smart Energy Lab, received the 2018 Engineering Educator of the Year award from the Utah Engineers Council during a banquet Feb. 24 at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah.
“I am honored to bring this award for the U engineering community and feel blessed that our dedication and hard work at the Utah Smart Energy Lab is recognized by this award,” he said. “I would like to thank all my students for their excellent work in the many research projects we are leading in at U-Smart.”
The Utah Engineers Council is an organization of engineering societies in the state that provide a place where they can work together to promote engineering in the state. The Engineering Educator of the Year award goes to one person in Utah who has been outstanding in furthering engineering education. Member societies that make up the council nominate those eligible for the award.
Read the full story at the College of Engineering and ECE department websites.