Bi-annual Newsletters Vol. 1 | Page 8

What’s Facility Updates (cont.) ly Going On The center recently added 7,275 square feet of space on the 1st floor of the Min H. Kao Building. I NDUSTRY Take a look at recent activity and upcoming plans for our industry relations Hardware Testbed & Grid Emulaton Lab Used for housing and systemlevel testing of CURENT’s hardware testbed. Grid Control & Visualization Lab For remote control & visualization of hardware testbed, video display of monitored, emulated, or simulated grid data. Also used for training and high performance computing. CURENT Seminar Series Begins! The center invites industry leaders and academic experts to participate in our seminar series at UT, Knoxville on the last Friday of each month. Seminars begin at 12:20pm. Upcoming Seminars: • • • Sept. 27, 2013 - Aleksandar Dimitrovski, ORNL Nov. 1, 2013 - Leon Tolbert, UT November 22, 2013 - Vikas Singhvi, EPRI Conference Room Used for meetings & voice/ video conferencing. Seminars are available for live streaming, and can be downloaded for future viewing at curent.utk.edu/seminar COM IN G SOON Sh o rt Co u rse s @ C UR E NT The center will soon be offering training and development short courses for industry professionals. The courses will be available onsite at UT and via webcast. Potential topics will include: • • • • • Intro to Energy Management Systems Synchrophasors Protection & Control Power Electronics MATLAB for Power Engineers Contact Brad Trento @ 865.974.4799 with other topic ideas Power Electronics Lab Used to construct, characterize, and/or test power electronic components, modules, and converters. High Power Electronics Lab With high power testing room and motor/dynamometer room. Min H. Kao Building, Suite 555 1520 Middle Drive Knoxville, TN 37996 865.974.9720 (ph.) 865.974.9723 (fax) [email protected] “This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy under Grant No. 1041877. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.”