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Welcome to the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter
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- Written by Massoud Amin
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter. The newsletter has a technical focus, taking into account the perspectives of both researchers and practicing engineers as the smart grid unfolds in all dimensions.
To borrow language from the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the smart grid involves the "increased use of digital information and controls technology to improve the reliability, security, and efficiency of the electric grid…(and) dynamic optimization of grid operations and resources, with full cyber-security."
The smart grid is a subject of national and regional priority, not just in the United States but in Europe, Canada, China, India and many other nations. Various aspects of the smart grid are emphasized from country to country; however, all countries share a vision of a highly instrumented, overlaid system with advanced sensors and computing with enabling platforms and technologies for secure sensing, communications, automation and controls. These are key to engage consumers, enhance efficiency, ensure reliability and security, and to enable integration of renewables and electrification of transportation.
IEEE is sponsoring this newsletter because making the smart grid a reality along all its vectors will require the engagement of innovators and technologists working in many areas where IEEE convenes and leads, including power and energy, sensing, measurement, signal processing, communications, controls, security, standards, materials and devices.
We look forward to your active participation in this timely enterprise and hope that many of you will submit manuscripts for possible publication in future issues.
S. Massoud Amin
Chairman, IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter
Director and Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt chair, Technological Leadership Institute, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
William Sweet
Managing Editor, IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter
Emeritus News Editor, IEEE Spectrum, and editor, Spectrum's EnergyWise newsletter
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Massoud Amin, a senior member of IEEE, chairman of the IEEE smart grid newsletter, and a fellow of ASME, holds the Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership at the University of Minnesota. He directs the university’s Technological Leadership Institute (TLI), is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and professor of electrical and computer engineering. He received the B.S. degree with honors and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the M.S. degree and the D.Sc. degree in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Before joining the university in 2003, he held positions of increasing responsibility at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto. After 9/11, he directed EPRI's Infrastructure Security R&D and served as area manager for Security, Grid Operations/Planning, and Energy Markets. Prior to that, he served as manager of mathematics and information sciences, where he led the development of more than 24 technologies that transferred to industry, and pioneered R&D in "self-healing" infrastructures and smart grids.
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