Driven by economic and environmental policies, there is an increase in distributed energy resources (DER) penetration, such as wind farms and rooftop solar panels in the [...]

The modern electric power system is experiencing an increased level of harmonic frequency components because of the growing use of power electronic devices, such as conve[...]

This dissertation focuses on developing an integrated hybrid model for studying the thermal dynamic operations of passive buildings considering active power management. F[...]

The global and local impacts of climate change have increased the interest in decarbonizing energy economies in general and transportation in particular. Solar EVs repres[...]

Received radio frequency (RF) signal strength provides a cost-effective mechanism for distance estimation that is popularly used for range-based localization in wireless [...]

The availability of OpenCL High-Level Synthesis (OpenCL-HLS) has made FPGAs an attractive platform for power-efficient high-performance execution of massively parallel ap[...]

Load forecasting is evolving in a smart grid era from the days before personal computer (PC) and the PC era. Thanks to the wide-spread use of smart meters, more data with[...]

Pressurizer (PZR) behavior in typical pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plants is well understood. Pressure control is relatively straightforward for a typica[...]

There is an active effort toward the development of negative index metamaterials for application in high-resolution imaging. In particular, engineering an artificial mate[...]

A mature and difficult problem, still preoccupying many research communities in different application areas, is the recovery of a quantitative image of some unknown penet[...]