{"id":6,"date":"2019-09-19T09:47:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engr-wpstaging.engineering.iastate.edu\/eprc\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:02:02","slug":"welcome-to-the-electric-power-research-center-at-iowa-state-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"ecosystem-home-hero ecosystem-home-hero--no-image\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ecosystem-home-hero__content\">\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"ecosystem-home-hero__title\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tElectric Power Research Center (EPRC)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<p>We are a catalyst for collaboration between Iowa State University and industry power systems for research and development (R&amp;D), technology transfer, and to <strong>strengthen<\/strong> undergraduate and graduate <strong>education<\/strong> in energy infrastructure. We study power systems from large interconnected transmission grids to the inverters critical for <strong>renewable energy<\/strong> and energy storage integration. <strong>Research<\/strong> and education is driven to improve reliability and security of the grid as more variable and distributed resources are connected, and as loads also become more variable.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\"><div class=\"text-content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"news\">Featured News<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--card-set\">\n\t<div class=\"card-set\">\n\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iastate22-card clickable\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iastate22-card__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/files\/2026\/01\/LVFT-300x300.jpg\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iastate.edu\/news\/electric-power-research-center-sixty-years-aiding-industry-preparing-students-inventing\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--call-to-action--small\">\n\t<div class=\"call-to-action call-to-action--small\">\n\t\t<div class=\"call-to-action__copy-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<h2\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"call-to-action__headline\">More EPRC News<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"iastate22-button-set\">\n\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"iastate22-button\" href=\"https:\/\/news.engineering.iastate.edu\/category\/eprc\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEPRC News<span class=\"arrow\"><\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<h2>Scholarship Winners<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16069\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/files\/2026\/03\/1000013875.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/files\/2026\/03\/1000013875-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured left to right, Ryan Flaskamp, Lance Martin, and Tony Moore, student services manager.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/files\/2026\/03\/1000013875-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/files\/2026\/03\/1000013875-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/files\/2026\/03\/1000013875-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/files\/2026\/03\/1000013875.jpg 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured left to right, Ryan Flaskamp, Lance Martin, and Tony Moore, student services manager.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We want to recognize three undergraduate electrical engineering students who were recently awarded scholarships from the IEEE Power and Energy Society. These are prestigious scholarships were awarded to only 244 students from 110 U.S., Puerto Rican, and Canadian universities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Luke Auderer<\/strong>, senior in electrical engineering, is also a 4-H scholarship recipient.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lance Martin<\/strong>, senior in electrical engineering, is a Corporal in the Iowa Army National Guard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan Flaskamp,<\/strong> senior in electrical engineering, is IEEE student chapter president and has had internships with MISO. Ryan was also the top-ranked student in IEEE Region 4 and received the\u00a0John W. Estey Outstanding Scholar Award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interested in applying for a scholarship? To learn more, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/ee-scholarship.org\/\">IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\" id=\"events\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<h2>Events<\/h2>\n<h3>Electric Power Forum 2026, May 19-20<\/h3>\n<p><strong>63rd Energy Conference: Planning and Grid Operations for Large Loads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ISU\u2019s Memorial Union, 2229 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50011, and hybrid via Teams.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/electric-power-forum-2026\/\">View the agenda<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:akimber@iastate.edu\">akimber@iastate.edu<\/a> with your questions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<h3>Electric Power Forum 2025<\/h3>\n<p>EPRC conference, 765-kV design workshop, and HVDC Transmission Short Course<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/power-forum\/\">View archived presentations and poster winners<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-iastate-light-gray-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-dca28039 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<h3>Power Seminars<\/h3>\n<p>Guest speakers every Tuesday at 1:10 p.m CST.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/events\/\">events webpage<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16156,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/16156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}