Presentation: Smart Campus Discussion: Collaborative Insights from Principal Investigator, Student and the Trades roles within a Smart City Project

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Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour is the Bodine Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Director of the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at IIT. He is also the Principal Investigator of over $60 million grants on smart grid research and development. His DOE Project on Perfect Power Systems has converted the entire IIT Campus to an islanded microgrid. He has recently initiated CSMART (Center for Smart Grid Applications, Research, and Technology) at IIT for promoting the smart grid cybersecurity research and implementation and enhancing the resilience of wireless networked communication and control systems in smart cities. He is the 2009 recipient of the honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He is currently a Research Professor at King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia), Sharif University of Technology (Iran), as well as several universities in China including Tsinghua University, Xian Jiaotong University, Nanjing University, North China Electric Power University, and Hunan University. He was the recipient of the IEEE Burke Hayes Award for his research on hydrokinetics, the Edison Electric Institute’s Power Engineering Educator Award, the Innovation Award from the Association of Electrical Engineering Department Heads, and the IEEE/PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award in 2012. He has co-authored 6 books and 450 papers on electric power system operation and planning, and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Dr. Shahidehpour was a member of the United Nations Commission on Microgrid Studies. His SPIKE initiative, which is established in conjunction with the Stuart School of Business at IIT, is facilitating the design and the implementation of affordable microgrids in impoverished nations. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

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Patrick Burgess is Masters Student at IIT. As a part of his master’s program he has an internship with the Willdan Group who provides professional, technical and consulting services. Willdan has assembled a team of highly specialized electrical engineering and technology experts that provide support to clients looking to develop and implement the smart grid, microgrid and other advanced grid technologies. Willdan has taken an active role working with university professors and students to develop the conceptual design and share insights regarding the analysis and approach to microgrid design.

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Farshogar Umrigar and Jimmy Shaw are Electrical Engineering seniors at IIT. In addition to being full time students they have an internship with the Galvin Center, Farshogar and Jimmy have co-collaborated on getting data into OSIsoft PI beginning at the sensor level. Making sure the data was correctly formatted, augmented, cleansed and shaped so that it could be transmitted to PI via OSIsoft’s various interfaces. Their work goes far beyond making sure the correct Internet IP address is available. They needed to make sure the correct firmware, clocks, antennas and cables where installed so that PMUs, micro grids, PV cells, voltage stabilizers batteries, windmills and co-gen systems were capable of digital communications. They learned the PI System by utilizing OSIsoft’s YouTube training, virtual classes and tech support.

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Harry Ohde is the Assistant Training Director for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) for the City of Chicago. He has been in the electrical field for 32 years. Currently the Assistant Training Director for the IBEW apprenticeship school, he is training about 250 apprentices and journeymen. Harry has taught electrical code courses related to PV, case studies for commercial PV design for the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA), distributed generation, renewable energy, battery storage and Electrical Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program (EVITP). He holds numerous electrical certifications such as City of Chicago Supervising Electrician license and represents the IBEW as an NEC Panel member and is a member of the Chicago Electrical Code Commission. Dr. Shahidehpour and Harry Ohde will discuss the need to get students involved with their career choices as early as possible by providing real world experiences that line up with their interests, technical knowledge and theoretical education. Through internships, collaboration and solving challenges hands on they feel that can be accomplished. Additionally they see the need to have university students and electrician apprentices work on joint projects, so that both will understand the total scope of what is required in order to successfully implement the new technologies which are becoming an integral part of a Smart City.

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