Happy Birthday UniTS also from the USA!

The D-ETEF laboratories’ research group from the Department of Engineering and Architecture have taken part in the sixth edition of the ‘International Conference on DC Microgrids’ organised by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, https://attend.ieee.org/icdcm-2024/) with a delegation consisting of Giorgio Sulligoi, Daniele Bosich and Andrea Alessia Tavagnutti, lecturers and researchers in electrical energy systems at our University.

The conference took place in Columbia (SC), at the University of South Carolina, a leading university for real-time studies and simulations on integrated, flexible and hybrid AC/DC electrical systems.

Prof. Sulligoi, who gave a keynote speech entitled ‘DC grids and ships: technological trends, proof of concepts, integrated ship design’, said: ‘The invitation to participate as a keynote speaker came from Professors Enrico Santi, general chair, and Roger Dougal, general co-chair, key figures in the field whom I had the good fortune to meet at several IEEE conferences during my PhD. Receiving an invitation from them to give a plenary session speech after twenty years of work in the field made me particularly honoured. It is an achievement which is the result of the work of the entire D-ETEF laboratories’ research team. Joining me in the proceedings were my colleagues Prof. Daniele Bosich, a specialist in the DC microgrids sector and track chair of the conference on Circuit Breakers and Protections, and Dr. Andrea Alessia Tavagnutti, who has just taken up her post at our university and was part of the PhD programme in Industrial and Information Engineering at MIT Boston, doing research in the specific field of DC microgrid storage. I would also like to thank our University for grasping the importance of having competitive laboratories to carry out power tests and trials on industrial-scale electrical systems, contributing to the renovation of spaces and achieving state-of-the-art infrastructures'.

The keynote speech took place on 8th August, so the UniTS team was able to publicly wish our University a happy 100th birthday!

Pictured: Prof. Giorgio Sulligoi and Enrico Santi, General Chairman of ICDCM