On March 2nd, IEEE (PI)2 Austin co-hosted “High Power Density High Efficiency Altitude-ready Solid-state Circuit Breaker for Hybrid Electric Propulsion” with Dr. Di Zhang, Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School,
Organized by the  SFBAC (combined Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco, & Oakland/East Bay) IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS)
The Naval postgraduate school …

February 22nd, 2022: Professor Andres Carvallo, presented on the Texas State Connected Infrastructure for Education, Demonstration and Applied Research (CIEDAR) Initiative.  Professor Carvallo shared the work he co-leads at the multi-disciplinary industry research consortium CIEDAR based at Texas State University. CIEDAR is a Research and Development Marketplace with 20 …

January 27th 2022,  1:00-2:00 pm Central,  IEEE (PI)2 Austin CO-HOSTED Tech Meeting
“SMART Power Flow Controllers – A Necessity for Future Power Grid”
Speaker: Dr. Kalyan Sen, President and CTO Sen Engineering Solutions, Inc.
Virtual – REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/299684
Abstract:
Power flow control techniques have been practiced, from using inductors, capacitors, …

On January 25th  IEEE (PI)2Austin hosted Technical Meeting titled “Tilting at Windmills: Drivers, Risk, Opportunity, Resilience and the 2021 Texas Electricity Grid Failure”
Speaker: Matthew Hause, Principal Consultant, System Strategy, Inc.
Matthew presented a “system-of-systems” analysis of the different stakeholder goals, inter-relationships, and some of the wishful thinking that is going into current policies for Winterization of the Texas power infrastructure.  …

On December 5th, IEEE (PI)2 Austin held a Volunteer Appreciation Dinner at Cover 3, Anderson Lane. In addition to a social hour with old and new friends and colleagues, and a terrific dinner, the event concluded with the extremely funny, Don McMillan of Technically Funny, Inc, providing …

Residential Electrification and Resilience – Electricity Use Changes from COVID-19 and Winter Storm “Uri”
Scott Hinson, Chief Technology Officer at Pecan Street, gave a cohesive presentation of the insights on electric vehicle charging and electricity usage during the pandemic year and during the sever winter …

Bob Hebner, Director of the Center for Electromechanics at the University of Texas at Austin presented on WebEx and at Cover 3 on Anderson Lane Bob first presented an overview of the serious event that nearly shut down the entire Texas electric grid, and cause many …

Our speaker, Steve Kanetzky, provided real world examples of the challenges in providing engineering testimony, whether expert or just a subpoenaed witness. Engineers have to tell clients/customers/employers the straight facts at all times, of course, but doing so with expert testimony adds another level of …

Our speaker, Shea Petricek, Director of Marketing and Applications, Infrastructure Power, Renesas, reviewed the unique challenges and great opportunity for digitally controlled power delivery systems that include modern computer loads in combination with the dominance of hyper-scale data-centers.  Modern digital power solutions address the increasingly …

On June 22nd,  IEEE (PI)2 Austin hosted a virtual and in-person Technical Meeting entitled “Power-Electronics-Enabled Autonomous Power Systems: Next-Generation Smart Grids”  Dr. Qing-Chang Zhong of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, a Distinguished Lecturer of three IEEE Societies discussed his research and vision that future …