Source: Anil Pahwa, 785-532-4692, pahwa@k-state.edu
Friday, Oct. 26, 2007
K-STATE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENT'S POSTER PRESENTATION EARNS HONOR
MANHATTAN -- Min Gui, a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering, Manhattan, earned second-place honors for a poster presentation on reliability of electricity distribution systems.
Gui's poster, "Prediction and Anomaly Detection of Animal-Related Failures in Overhead Distribution Systems," was presented as part of the student poster-paper session and contest at the annual general meeting of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power Engineering Society in June in Tampa, Fla.
The competition included presentations by 77 students from prominent U.S. and international universities.
Gui's poster was based on a National Science Foundation-funded project, "Investigating the Influence of Environmental Factors on Reliability of Distribution Systems," she is working on with K-State's Anil Pahwa, professor, and Sanjoy Das, associate professor, both of electrical and computer engineering, as co-advisers. The project's main focus is to study the influence of environmental factors, such as lightning, wind, vegetation and animals on the reliability of electricity distribution systems.
According to Pahwa, the results of this investigation will help utilities in providing higher levels of reliability of electricity supply to customers, increasing productivity and satisfaction.