Richard Wies
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alaska Fairbanks
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Wies's currently is teaching the Power and Controls option for the ECE department at UAF. Dr. Wies provides advising and instruction to graduate and undergraduate students and teaches course topics in Electrical Machinery, Power Systems, Power Electronics, Digital Control Systems, and special topic courses in Adaptive Filtering and Nonlinear Systems.
Research Interest
Dr. Wies's current research involves the Modeling and performance analysis of hybrid electric power systems for remote locations. Application of signal processing techniques for analyzing power system stability. Development of classroom and laboratory curriculum for power electronics and electric drives courses.
Publications
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Improved frequency regulation on hybrid wind-diesel microgrids using self-sensing electric thermal storage devices
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Frequency Regulation by Distributed Secondary Loads on Islanded Wind-Powered Microgrids
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Improved frequency regulation in mini-grids with high wind contribution using online genetic algorithm for PID tuning.
