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Thomas Overbye is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University.[1] He is also the holder of the O'Donnell Foundation Chair III, the Director of the Smart Grid Center,[2] and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[3] He is a co-author of a leading textbook in his field, received the IEEE Power and Energy Society Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award[4] in 2011, and leads a large and diverse research group.

Education

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  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison[5] – 1991
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison – 1988
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison – 1983

Employment

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  • Director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Smart Grid Center, 2019-Present
  • Professor and holder of the O'Donnell Foundation Chair III, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,[6] Texas A&M University at College Station, 2017-Present
  • Fox Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,[7] 2006-2016
  • Professor ECE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003-2016
  • Associate Professor of ECE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2003
  • Assistant Professor of ECE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991-1997
  • Operations Engineer, Madison Gas and Electric,[8] 1983-1991
  • Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989-1991

Major awards and recognition

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  • IEEE Power Engineering Society Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award
  • IEEE Power Engineering Society Prize Paper Award
  • National Academy of Engineering, Invited Speaker to Frontiers in Engineering Symposium
  • University of Illinois BP Amoco Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education
  • IEEE Power Engineering Society Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award
  • IEEE Region 4 Power Engineering Society Outstanding Engineer Award
  • Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation, NSF I/UCRC Association
  • Distinguished Achievement Award, University Wisconsin Madison College of Engineering
  • IEEE Power and Energy Society Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award

Professional Association/Society Memberships

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  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow
  • Registered Professional Engineer, State of Wisconsin
  • U.S. National Academy of Engineering, inducted 2013 with an election citation of, "For the integration of visualization and analysis tools for power systems."

Selected Service Activities

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  • IEEE Central Illinois Section Treasurer, 1992-1998
  • IEEE PES Secretary, Power Engineering Education Research Subcommittee, 2001-2003
  • Chair, IEEE PES Walter Fee Award Committee, 2001-2005
  • Vice Chair and Chair, Power Engineering Education Research Subcommittee, 2003-2007
  • Chair, Power Engineering Education Research Subcommittee, 2005-2007
  • 14th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) Technical Committee, 2001-2002
  • 15th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) Technical Committee, 2004-2005
  • 16th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) Technical Committee, 2007-2008
  • Electric Power Components and Systems Journal, Editorial Board, 2002 - 2015
  • IREP - Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control - VII Symposium, Organizing Committee, 2007, 2013
  • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Track Co-Chair, 2009-present
  • Led on-site investigation team for U.S. Department of Energy August 14th 2003 Blackout Investigation, Fall 2003.
  • U.S. National Academy of Engineering Section 6 Peer Committee, 2017-2019; Vice-chair in 2018, Chair in 2019
  • U.S. National Academy of Engineering Section 6 Vice Chair, 2023-2025 U.S. National Academies "Analytic Foundations of the Next Generation Electric Grid," Study Committee Chair, 2014-2016
  • U.S. National Academics "Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electric Grid," Study Committee Member, 2015-2017
  • Texas A&M University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Chair of Energy and Power Group, 2017-Present

Publications

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Articles

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  • Overbye, T.J. (August 1994). "A power flow measure for unsolvable cases". IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 9 (3): 1359–1365. Bibcode:1994ITPSy...9.1359O. doi:10.1109/59.336130. ISSN 1558-0679.
  • Overbye, T.J.; Sauer, P.W.; Marzinzik, C.M.; Gross, G. (November 1995). "A user-friendly simulation program for teaching power system operations". IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 10 (4): 1725–1733. Bibcode:1995ITPSy..10.1725O. doi:10.1109/59.476035. ISSN 1558-0679.
  • Weber, J.D.; Overbye, T.J. (February 2000). "Voltage contours for power system visualization". IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 15 (1): 404–409. Bibcode:2000ITPSy..15..404W. doi:10.1109/59.852151. ISSN 1558-0679.
  • Overbye, T.J.; Weber, J.D. (February 2001). "Visualizing the electric grid". IEEE Spectrum. 38 (2): 52–58. doi:10.1109/6.898800. ISSN 1939-9340.
  • Overbye, Thomas J.; Cheng, Xu; Sun, Yan (2004). "A comparison of the AC and DC power flow models for LMP calculations: Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences". Illinois Experts. 37 (CSMDE01): 725–734. ISSN 1060-3425.
  • Overbye, Thomas J.; Hutchins, Trevor R.; Shetye, Komal; Weber, Jamie; Dahman, Scott (2012). "Integration of geomagnetic disturbance modeling into the power flow: A methodology for large-scale system studies". 2012 North American Power Symposium (NAPS). 2012 North American Power Symposium, NAPS 2012. pp. 1–7. doi:10.1109/NAPS.2012.6336365. ISBN 978-1-4673-2308-6.
  • Birchfield, Adam B.; Xu, Ti; Gegner, Kathleen M.; Shetye, Komal S.; Overbye, Thomas J. (July 2017). "Grid Structural Characteristics as Validation Criteria for Synthetic Networks". IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 32 (4): 3258–3265. Bibcode:2017ITPSy..32.3258B. doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2016.2616385. ISSN 1558-0679. OSTI 1364081.
  • Xu, Ti; Birchfield, Adam B.; Overbye, Thomas J. (November 2018). "Modeling, Tuning, and Validating System Dynamics in Synthetic Electric Grids". IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 33 (6): 6501–6509. Bibcode:2018ITPSy..33.6501X. doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2823702. ISSN 1558-0679.

Books

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  • Glover, J. Duncan; Sarma, Mulukutla S.; Overbye, Thomas; Birchfield, Adam (2022). Power system analysis and design. Cengage Learning. ISBN 9780357676189.

References

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  1. ^ "Texas A&M University", Wikipedia, 2025-02-10, retrieved 2025-02-13
  2. ^ "Smart Grid Center | Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station". smartgridcenter.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
  3. ^ "Home". NAE Website. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
  4. ^ "IEEE PES Peter W. Sauer Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award". IEEE Power & Energy Society. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
  5. ^ "University of Wisconsin–Madison". www.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
  6. ^ Electrical, Department of; A, Computer EngineeringTexas; Station, M. University301 Wisenbaker Engineering BuildingCollege; Tx 77843-3128. "Electrical and Computer Engineering". engineering.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Home | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign". illinois.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
  8. ^ "Home - Madison Gas and Electric". www.mge.com. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
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