On May,5th, 2009, the awarding ceremony of Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow as Guest Professor was held at Room 418, Electrical Engineering Building, Yuquan Campus of Zhejiang University.
After the ceremoney, Prof. Chow gave a lecture entitled Intelligent Energy Management System for Plug-In Electric Vehicles Municipal Parking Deck in a Smart Grid Environment. According to Prof. Chow, the need of modernization of the power grid with migration into smart grid environments has opened many new avenues of research, spanning from development of power electronics for advanced devices and components, techniques of their integration into the grid, their local coordination and control, to system level analysis and design of advanced communication and control. The first part of this seminar presents an overview of the smart grid concept and technologies followed by a brief description at the ongoing research in this area at the ten years forty million US dollar FREEDM (Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management) center inaugurated at North Carolina State University in September 2008. This is followed by an introduction to the project on intelligent energy management system (iEMS) for charging of plug-in hybrid vehicles at a municipal parking deck. The second part of the presentation corresponds to more technical details on the system architecture and modeling approaches for the iEMS. He further discussed the iEMS simulation test-bed, mathematical formulation of the problem, related optimization algorithms, recent results and future directions.
Dr. Chow earned his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1982); and Cornell University (M. Eng., 1983; Ph.D., 1987). Dr. Chow joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor in 1989. He became an Associate Professor in 1993, and a Professor since 1999.
Dr. Chow’s research focuses on fault diagnosis and prognosis, distributed control, and computational intelligence. He has been applying his research to areas including mechatronics, power distribution systems, distributed generation, motors and robotics. Dr. Chow has established the Advanced Diagnosis and Control Laboratory at NC State University. He has published one book, several book chapters, and over one hundred journal and conference articles related to his research work. He is an IEEE Fellow, and has received the IEEE Region-3 Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award and the IEEE ENCS Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. He was the General Chair of IEEE IECON05. He has been Vice President of Membership Activities and of Publications for IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics,and the Chair of IEEE PES Intelligent Fault Management Task Force.
