John D. McDonald, P.E of IEEE Power and Energy Society

The purpose of this talk is to familiarize participants with a vision for Grid Modernization, focusing on technological advancements beyond Smart Grid. The technological advancements include discussions of key industry/societal trends, Smart Grid concepts, holistic solutions, integration of microgrids and distributed generation, ADMS software applications, feeder automation business models, managing different types of data, big data, analytics, enterprise data management, Smart Grid standards and interoperability, and Smart Grid deployments and lessons learned.

Biography:

John D. McDonald, P.E., is Smart Grid Business Development Leader for GE Power’s Grid Solutions business.  John has 43 years of experience in the electric utility industry. John joined GE on December 3, 2007 as General Manager, Marketing for GE Energy’s Transmission and Distribution business. In 2010 John accepted the new role of Director, Technical Strategy and Policy Development for GE Digital Energy. In January 2016 John assumed his present role with the integration of Alstom Grid and GE Digital Energy to form GE Grid Solutions.

He is a sought-after industry leader, technical expert, educator, and speaker. John was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE-SA (Standards Association), focusing on long term IEEE Smart Grid standards strategy. John was the Chair of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) Governing Board for 2010-2015 (end of 1Q) coordinating Smart Grid standards development in the US and global harmonization of the standards. John is a member of the NIST Smart Grid Advisory Committee.

Address:Atalanta, Georgia, United States

Ming Cheng of IEEE Industry Applications Society

With ever-increasing concerns on our environment, there is a fast growing interest in electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid EVs (HEVs) from automakers, governments, and customers.
As electric motor drives are the core of both EVs and HEVs, it is a pressing need for researchers to develop advanced electric-drive systems.
In this lecture, the development status of EVs/HEVs in China will be firstly introduced. The general requirement of traction motor drive for EV/HEVs is discussed.
An overview of permanent-magnet (PM) brushless motor drives for EVs and HEVs is presented, with emphasis on machine topologies, drive operations, and control strategies. Then, major research directions of the permanent magnet brushless motor drive systems are elaborated, including the stator PM motor drive and fault-tolerant control, magnetic-geared outer-rotor PM motor drive, and the electric variable transmission (EVT) system.

Biography:

Ming Cheng (M'01–SM'02–F'15) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees
from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University (formerly Nanjing Institute of Technology), Nanjing, China, in 1982 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2001, all in electrical engineering.

Address:Hong Kong, Hong Kong