Professional Involvements

An integral part of graduate research is the continued education of power industry professional. The academics from the Power and Energy Systems groups have taken an active involvement in this process by teaching at short courses and organising conferences. A summary of these activities is provided as follows:

CIGRE activities

- Tapan Saha has been representing University of Queensland in International Council of Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) Australian Panel A2 -Transformers as a panel member for the last nine years.

- Tapan Saha has been representing University of Queensland in International Council of Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) Australian Panel D1- Materials and emerging technologies as an expert Member for the last four years.

- Tapan Saha was a member of the International Task Force CIGRE TF15.01.10 on “Paper ageing”

Residential School in Power Systems

- Tapan Saha and his colleagues from UQ and Gerard Ledwich from QUT organised ESAA Residential Summer School in Power Systems Engineering, during February 2003 and 2004

Recent Delivery of Short courses outside UQ

- Tapan Saha presented a short course lecture in Presented an invited "Insulation
Condition Monitoring and Partial Discharge Techniques" during 21-23 July 2004 at the University of New South Wales

- Tapan Saha presented a short course lecture in Presented an invited "Insulation
Condition Monitoring and Partial Discharge Detection Techniques for High voltage Power Equipment" during 18-20 July 2007 at the University of New South Wales

Conference activities

Zhao Dong was the program committee co-chair, The 1st International Conference on Data Mining and Applications (ADMA’05), Wuhan, China, July 22-24, 2005
Zhao Dong was the international program committee member for 2004 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (http://cis-ram.nus.edu.sg/), Dec 2004, Singapore
Zhao Dong is the Program Committee Member, Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning IDEAL'05 (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~ideal05/), 6-8 July 2005, Brisbane, Australia
Zhao Dong was the international program committee member of the International Artificial Intelligence in Energy Systems and Power (AIEPS)’04 conference, USA
Zhao Dong was the Technical Chair for AUPEC 04 conference, Australia
Zhao Dong was invited to organise a special session for The Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, (CIRAS’03) 15-18 December 2003, Singapore.

IEEE

Prof. Tapan Saha has been actively involved with IEEE Queensland Section since 1997. He was the Chair of the Queensland Section during 2005-06. Currently he is the immediate past chair of the Section. A/Prof. Zhao Dong is currently the Vice Chair of the Queensland Section. A/Prof. Zhao Dong has been actively involved with the Power Engineering Chapter of the Queensland Section since 2004 and he was the chair of the chapter during 2004-06. Dr Rajat majumder is the current chapter of the Power Engineering Chapter.

Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2004)

Tapan Saha as a General Chair organised the Australasian Universities Power Engineering conference held at the University of Queensland in September 2004. Dr Zhao Dong was the Technical Chair and Dr Geoff Walker was the publication Chair of the conference. A high level industry based organising committee was formed with Mr. Tim George from NEMMCO, Dr Dave Allan from Powerlink and Mr. Peter Brennan from Ergon Energy. The theme of the conference was “Challenges and Opportunities in the Deregulated Power Industry”. At this conference there were delegates attended from 17 different countries.

During the recent past, power industries around the world have seen a number of major blackouts. This has emphasized the importance of security in complex and interconnected power systems. New techniques and solutions are required to manage and operate the deregulated electricity industry in a market environment. This conference provided the perfect forum for presenting the strategies developed by industry and academia to meet these challenges.