Power Engineer

Jay Patel

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Tempe, AZ - 85281 Email: ********@***.***

Phone no.: 480-***-****

Education

- MSE in Electrical Power Systems (Jan 2010 – Present), Arizona State University GPA: 3.53

- BE Electrical Engineering (2005 – 2009), Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. GPA: 3.63

Research projects

- Load flow studies in high penetration PV systems with a test bed of Arizona State University campus (with Prof. Gerald Heydt at ASU, Aug 2010 – Dec 2010).

- State estimation to estimate the optimum location of measurement placements in distribution systems (with Prof. Gerald Heydt at ASU, summer 2010).

- Assisted in developing a Merging unit based on IEC 61850-9-2 (with Prof. George Karady at ASU, spring 2010).

- Power System Study with availability based tariff which is a frequency based pricing mechanism to charge and regulate power, implemented in the Electricity Act 2003 in India (with Prof. Manish Desai at MSU, Aug 2008 - May 2009).

Academic projects

- Arguments against SCE Proposal on utilization of payment minimization objective function by ISOs

- A technical report on design of a high voltage transmission line in India.

- Power flow design and stability projects using PowerWorld simulator.

- Transient analysis projects using EMTP.

- Prepared a technical proposal, a term paper and a white paper.

- Design and simulation of a forward converter based power supply for Intel Desktop Board DP55KG.

Work Experience

- Graduate Research Assistant to Prof. Heydt at Arizona State University (May 2010 – Dec 2010).

- Junior Engineer (Trainee) at the State Load Dispatch Centre of the Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Ltd. (Oct 2009 - Dec 2009).

Programming skills

- Software: PowerWorld Simulator, PSpice, MATLAB, AMPL, EMTP, Scilab, Mathematica, MS Office applications

- Operating Systems: Windows 98-2000/XP/Vista/7, Linux

- Languages: C, Pascal, 8051 Microcontroller, 8085/8086 Microprocessors

Areas of Interest

- Electric Power Systems and Electricity Market

Graduate courses taken

1) Power Transmission and Distribution 2) Electric Energy Markets 3) Power System Analysis 4) Independent Study on State Estimation in Distribution Systems 5) Linear Systems Theory 6) Power Operations and Planning 7) Advanced Power Electronics 8) Electric Power Quality 9) Power System Transients 10) Advanced Quality Control

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