Senior Design project receives first place recognition in IEEE PES poster competition
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society (IEEE PES) recognized CEC students' senior design project on rolling outages.
Senior Design project receives first place recognition in IEEE PES poster competition
Last year, Butler Rural Electric Cooperative partnered with the College of Engineering and Computing by sponsoring a year-long senior design project. The project they posed to our students was on the topic of rolling power outages, which are planned temporary power outages designed to balance load and resources on the electric grid. Specifically, Butler Rural Electric Cooperative asked students to create an interface which provided real-time data to help the electric system operator manage rolling outages and document performance of the system.
The results of this project were recently spotlighted in Ohio Cooperative Living, a monthly publication from the . (You can find the story on page 18E of the online format .)
“ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University’s students…helped by tackling a project to create an interface within a SCADA environment to manage a rolling power outage,” reads the article. Using machine learning along with electrical engineering techniques, “the students worked to find a way to provide real-time load information to help the electric system operator manage rolling outages and document the performance of the required load shedding actions.”
The article describes how Owen Campbell '24 (B.S. Electrical Engineering) traveled to the annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society (IEEE PES) conference in Anaheim to present his team’s findings. The other members of the team were Shaun Valentine '24 and Mina Yang '24, and their project was advised by CEC faculty member Hasan Ul Banna.
The poster Owen presented at that conference, titled “Rolling Blackouts and Load Shedding – Machine Learning Optimization,” won first place in the IEEE OES undergraduate student poster competition. Owen’s attendance at the event was sponsored by Butler Rural Electric Cooperative.
You can learn more about 2024’s senior design projects . Have a challenge of your own to pose to our engineering and computing students? Submit your ideas here.