Electric Power Forum 2025

EPRC Conference

May 20, ISU Memorial Union

765-kV design workshop

May 21, ISU Memorial Union, Sun Room

HVDC Transmission Short Course

May 22, ISU Memorial Union, Great Hall

  • P. Lof, National Grid, Introduction to HVDC Technology
  • Jim McCalley, ISU, Point-to-Point HVDC
  • X. Fang, Mississippi State University, Offshore Wind Power Integration
  • Matthew Tackett, MISO, Legacy EHV vs 765 kV vs HVDC
  • A. Mehrizi-Sani, Virginia Tech, Power Electronics 101: Fundamentals of switching power converters and EMT
  • L. Tolbert, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Modular multilevel converter design
  • H. Cui, North Carolina State University, VSC-HVDC Converter station technologies
  • Raj Rajan, SOO Green, HVDC short course lunch speaker

Poster Winners

  • 1st prize, Charlie Phillips (advisor: Jim McCalley)
  • 2nd prize, Luis Guillen (advisor: Hugo Villegas)
  • 3rd prizes
    • Zohreh Parvini (advisor: Jim McCalley)
    • Kebei Wang (advisor: Manimaran Govindarasu)
    • Santoyani Bose (advisor: Manimaran Govindarasu)