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Required Qualifications:

PhD in electrical engineering with prior experience in power electronics and power systems with 1 or more years of research training. Must be familiar with MATLAB, LTSpice, Altium, and OpalRT.

Summary of Position:

This position has the responsibility of conducting research and lab development in power electronics, power systems and electric drives. The researcher is responsible for developing simulation models for the shipboard power system emulator and evaluating it in hardware. In coordination with doctoral students, the researcher is expected to develop new educational labs for renewable energy courses. The researcher is also responsible for disseminating these developments through conferences/journal publications, as well as demonstrating these during annual NSF-sponsored workshops.

Responsibilities:

50% - Research on shipboard power system emulator

• Develop MATLAB and LTSpice model of various power system architecture, including designing mathematical models of different generation sources and loads, their interconnections, switches and relays. Using these models, simulations must be done for various transient and steady-state state operating conditions, including fault analysis.
• Build a hardware emulator to replicate the above simulated system to run this in real-time. The hardware results must be verified by means of OpalRT. Complete a thorough analysis of the performance differences between the two systems.

25% - Assist in writing journal papers and reports

• Publish at least 1 journal paper every year to reputable journals. Additionally, assist in writing quarterly and annual reports to the grant’s program officer.

20% - Renewable energy textbook and lab development

• Work with doctoral and Masters students in the lab to develop course content and laboratory for the undergraduate Sustainability and Renewable Energy course.

5% - Organizing annual workshop

• Assist in organizing the annual NSF-sponsored workshops for dissemination of research and educational outcomes.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of the largest departments within the College of Science and Engineering (CSE). Current research areas include Biomedical and Biological Computation Methods; Devices and Systems; Communications, Signal Processing, and Networking; Computer Engineering, VLSI, and Circuits; Fields, Photonics, and Magnetics; Micro and Nano Structures; Sustainable Energy Systems, Power Electronics and Drives; Systems and Controls. To learn more about ECE at the University of Minnesota, please visit https://ece.umn.edu .

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