Awards-won by the Power and Energy Systems group staff and students
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation-Prof. Tapan Saha
Professor Tapan Saha won the prestigious
Australian
Learning and Teaching Council Citation in 2009
"For enhancing undergraduate and postgraduate power engineering
education through leadership in industry engagement, in work-integrated learning
and the collaborative development of innovative postgraduate programs".
Citations are awarded to academic and professional staff who have made
long-standing contributions to the quality of student learning and improving the
overall student experience (with each citation worth $10,000).
Citation for outstanding contributions to Student Learning 2008 from the faculty of EPSA
Professor Tapan Saha won a Citation for outstanding contributions to Student Learning 2008
“For leadership in undergraduate and postgraduate power engineering education through industry engagement in work-integrated learning and the development of collaborative postgraduate programs”
Prof. Tapan Saha receiving the award
from Prof. Stephen Walker (Executive Dean of the faculty of EPSA).jpg)
Prof Tapan Saha with other teaching award recipients of the EPSA and BACS faculty.
Engineers Australia Electrical Branch Medal 2008 won by a power engineering student Mr. Tze Yip
Engineers Australia Electrical Branch (Queensland) awarded the Electrical Branch Medal to UQ graduating electrical engineering student Mr Tze Yip. This is based on GPA and involvement in Power Engineering courses and thesis. Tze completed a thesis "An Analysis of the Impact of Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Generation on Maintaining Acceptable Distribution Supply Voltages", which was supported by Energex and Supervised by Professor Tapan Saha.
Mr. Tze Yip receiving the Electrical branch Medal from Professor Tapan Saha
The ICPADM Mat Darveniza IEEE Queensland Section Award
The ICPADM Mat Darveniza
IEEE Queensland Section Student Prize for the Best Final Year Thesis in Power
Engineering was awarded to Tze Hin Yip, a student from UQ in 2008 for his
thesis entitled ‘An Analysis of the Impact of Grid Connected Photovoltaic
Generation on Maintaining Acceptable Distribution Supply Voltages’.
Mr. Tze Hin Yip receives his prize for ICPADM Mat Darveniza IEEE Queensland Section Student Prize for the Best Final Year Thesis in Power Engineering at the AGM from the Award Sponsor Emeritus Professor Matt Darveniza
Teaching Award- Faculty of EPSA-UQ
Professor Tapan Saha won one of the four inaugural Engineering Physical Science and Architecture (EPSA) Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards at the EPSA Teaching and Learning Showcase on 29 October 2007, during UQ Teaching and Learning Week.
IEEE QLD Section Volunteer of the year
Professor Tapan Saha won the Queensland Section IEEE Volunteer of the year award for 2006on "
R10 Outstanding Volunteer Award (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/10/Newsletter/2007/R10_eNewsletter-Dec2007.pdf)
The IEEE Region 10 Outstanding Volunteer Award aims to recognize those volunteers who have made outstanding contributions to a particular Region 10 Section. Tapan K Saha of Queensland Section is one of the three winners of the award in 2006. He has played important roles for Queensland Section activities for more than 10 years. Especially he plays an excellent role to coordinate between IEEE and Institution Engineers Australia (IEAust). He also played a driving role in forming the Queensland Student Chapters and GOLD affinity group.
ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA
(QUEENSLAND CHAPTER) -Queensland Quality Panel STEVE GOLDING AWARD 2007
Matthew Bird (CEED student) with Tapan Saha (UQ supervisor)
Mr Matthew Bird - the University of Queensland (CEED student - nominated by UQ). Project title: Feasibility of Zigbee Wireless Communications for Remote Meter Reading (project was sponsored by Ergon Energy) wins the third prize.
Details about the news can be obtained from http://www.corptech.com.au/showNews.asp?id=144
Power Engineering Alliance Bursary Holder, UQ 5th year Electrical Engineering & Bachelor of Commerce student Sarah Hiley for her Project "Redesign of the Blackwall Static Var Compensator (SVC) Power Oscillation Damper (POD) Controller" won the The IEEE Queensland Section Best Undergraduate Thesis Award in Power Engineering in 2007. Her Supervisors were Paul Windle and Tom Anderson from Powerlink and A/Prof. Zhao Yang Dong from the University of Queensland. Project Summary: The project involved designing and simulating several upgrade options for the Blackwall POD to maximise the damping of power system inter area oscillations on the Queensland to NSW Interconnector (QNI) circuits.
Sarah Hiley’s Award Winning Thesis (Powerlink’s Moving Forward magazine)
Sarah Hiley, Power Engineering student at UQ and PEA Bursary recipient has proven her mettle in the field, and she has been recognised for her innovation. She won the ‘IEEE Queensland Section Best Undergraduate Thesis Award in The field of Power Engineering in 2007’. Her thesis is entitled ‘Redesign of the Blackwall Static Var Compensator (SVC) Power Oscillation Damper (POD) Controller.’ “The project involved designing and simulating several upgrade options for the Blackwall POD to maximise the damping of power system inter-area oscillations on the Queensland to NSW Interconnector (QNI) circuits,” Sarah explained. “The POD at Blackwall on the Middle Ridge to Greenbank augmentation rendered the old POD ineffective. The observability of the QNI mode in the original power input of the POD was significantly decreased, so I had to redesign the POD using a different input signal.”
“It was a great honour to win the award. I was thankful for the opportunity to do the thesis at Powerlink. I found the project interesting, challenging and rewarding. I want to thank my supervisors Paul Windle and Tom Anderson at Powerlink, and Dr Zhao Yang Dong at University of Queensland.” “At first they didn’t think it would work, but it all worked in the end, I was able to go out and saw it installed and tested and it worked! It was awesome,” she said. Congratulations Sarah! Thank you to Sarah Hiley for your contribution.
Engineers Australia Prize for a Final Year Student
Project in Technological Management and/or Innovation in Engineering-2005
Jonathon Dennis, a final year BE Electrical/BSc
student (supervised by Tapan Saha), from the School of IT and EE, representing
UQ won
the first Prize at the competition of Engineers Australia Prize for a Final Year
Student Project in Technological Management and/or Innovation in Engineering.
His project title was "Propagation of traction converter harmonic distortion
into the transmission system". This project is sponsored by Powerlink. Five
Queensland Universities participated in this competition.
Jonathon was awarded first prize with $600 cash, and 1 year free Graduate IEAust
Membership.
More news:
http://qld.ieaust.org.au/jetspeed/static/items/2/3207/NovNL3.pdf
Inaugural Steve Golding Award Evening A Great
Success
Tuesday 4 October 2005 saw the presentation of five
excellent entries for final year student projects for the inaugural Steve
Golding Award for the best final year student project in technological
management and/or innovation in engineering.
This event joined together the Queensland Quality Panel, the Innovation
Sub-Committee and Young Engineers in a showcase of the best student projects
from the University of Queensland, James Cook University, Queensland University
of Technology and Griffith University. Each university was only allowed one
entrant for this prize. It was made possible by the sponsorship of Pizzeys
Patent Attorneys and PLANNED Professional Risk Services.
First place was awarded to Jonathan Dennis, of the University of Queensland, for
his project on Propagation of Traction-Converter Harmonic Distortion into the
Transmission System, which researched the impact on the Queensland electricity
grid of electric coal haul locomotives.
Railway Engineers & Railway Engineering
Student Thesis Awarded
Engineers and students in the railway industry were
recognised at the 2006 Conference on Railway Engineering held in Melbourne last
month. The Railway Technical Society of Australasia
(RTSA) presented awards in four categories: Individual, Industry, Young Railway
Engineer and Railway Engineering Student Thesis.
Jonathan Dennis of the University of Queensland won the Engineering Thesis
award.
IEEE Power Engineering Society General meeting Student Poster Paper Session and Contest 2003
John McDonald (supervised by Tapan Saha) was awarded 2nd
place in the Student Poster Paper Session and Contest 2003 for his
paper-"Influence of the Generator Design on the Rating of HV Circuit Breaker"-by
J McDonald & T K Saha at the IEEE Power Engineering Society General meeting in
Toronto Canada in July 2003.
IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and
Distribution Conference, in Yokahama, Japan (October 2002
John McDonald (supervised by Tapan Saha) was awarded one of
the best student paper awards in the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission
and Distribution Conference, in Yokahama, Japan (October 2002)
IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference,
in Atlanta, USA (October 2001)
Craig Aumuller (supervised by Tapan Saha) was awarded with
best 3rd paper award in the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and
Distribution Conference, in Atlanta, USA (October 2001)
Craig Aumuller, University of Queensland, St Lucia,
Queensland, Australia, who was the Third Award winner for the paper
“Determination of Power System Coherent Bus Groups by Novel
Sensitivity Based Method for Voltage Stability Assessment”.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/39/21143/x0523648.pdf
(left to right) Jin Zhong (Chalmers University,
Gothenburg, Sweden), First Award winner; Tianshu Bi (University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong); Craig Aumuller
(University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia), Third Award winner;
Durgesh Manjure (Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA);
Miroslav M. Begovic, chair of T&D Conference Student Activities; Slavko Vasilic
(Texas A&M University, College Station Texas, USA), Second Award winner;
Xiaohe Wu (University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA); Quian Chang
(University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, Missouri, USA)