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PowerJacks Awards

Faculty

Dr. Reinaldo Tonkoski

  • 2021 Winner of the IET Premium (Best Paper) Award IET Smart Grid for the paper “Big data analytics in smart grids: state-of-the-art, challenges, opportunities, and future directions”, IET Smart Grid, 2019, 2, (2), p. 141-154, DOI: 10.1049/iet-stg.2018.0261
  • 2020 Excellence in Research Award 2020, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, South Dakota State University
  • 2020 2020 IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Award – Technical Report: PES-TR66 Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis and Modeling (Published April 2018) Role: Working Group member
  • 2019 Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Distinguished Researcher 2019
  • 2017 Excellence in Advising Award 2017, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, South Dakota State University
  • 2017 Best paper award in the IEEE ICIT 2017, Toronto, Canada
  • 2014 Best paper award in the smart grid track at the IEEE/IAS International Conference on Industry Applications - INDUSCON 2014.
  • 2014 Reliable and Resilient Microgrids for Data Centers, Duration: 05/2014-04/2015, 2014 Microsoft Research Award for the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF), $40,000.00
  • 2002 Destaque no III Salão de Iniciação Científica PUCRS (Distinction on the III Undergraduate Scientific Meeting, PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL, PUCRS)
  • 2007 Teaching Fellowship, Awarded by Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, Canada
  • 2007 Awarded Concordia University International Tuition Fee Remission Award
  • 2010 IEEE IES Student Travel Grant to participate in the ISIE’2010 (Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society) to be hold in Bari, Italy. 8 Scholarships were granted among 35 students.

Dr. Tim Hansen

  • 2020 Graduate of the Last Decade, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, received for accomplishments achieved of significant importance at an early stage of his career.
  • 2019 IEEE-HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, received “for exceptional engagement of undergraduate students in electrical and computer engineering through pedagogical innovations, classroom technologies and curriculum development.”
  • Best paper award: “Parallel Implementation of AC Optimal Power Flow and Time-Constrained Optimal Power Flow using High-Performance Computing,” in IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC 2019), Jan. 2019
  • EPSCoR South Dakota Discovery Center Science Communication Fellow, Fall 2018
  • Best paper award: “Metrics-Based Assessment of Sustainability in Demand Response,” in 15th IEEE International Conference on Smart City, Dec. 2017
  • Invited Visiting Faculty, Franche-Comte Electronics, Mechanics, Thermal Science, and Optics (FEMTO-ST), Energy Department, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), part of Universite Bourgogne Franche-Comte (UBFC), 90010 Belfort cedex, France, Summer 2017
  • Best paper award: “Spatial-Temporal Stochasticity of Electric Vehicles in an Integrated Traffic and Power System,” in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT’16) (out of approx. 125 papers), May 2016

Students

Hamza Tasneem

  • BENNETT Undergraduate EE Summer 2020 Research Fellowship Award