by Prof. Robert S. Balog | May 8, 2020 | Award, Undergraduate Students
Texas A&M University at Qatar undergraduate students Fatima Al-Janahi ’20 and Rahul Balamuruga ’20 mentored by Dr. Robert S. Balog have been awarded the Texas A&M University Undergraduate Research Scholars (URS) Outstanding Thesis Award for STEM. Photovoltaic...
by Prof. Robert S. Balog | May 7, 2020 | Graduate Students, Graduation
Dr. Morcos Metry received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. His dissertation entitled “Model Predictive Control Methods for Photovoltaic Electrical Energy Conversion Systems” studied the theory of finite control set model predictive control (MPC) and the...
by Prof. Robert S. Balog | May 7, 2020 | Graduation, Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate students Mr. Seif ElGazer, Mr. Abdelrahman Amer, and Ms. Nabila Elbeheiry graduated each their B.S. in electrical engineering. As a research team, they have been a part of the REAPER lab over the last year and conducted innovative research in load...
by Prof. Robert S. Balog | Feb 26, 2020 | Meetings, Seminar / Talk, Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate students Ms. Fatima Al-Janahi and Mr. Rahul Balamurugan presented their research on characterizing electrical arc in photovoltaic energy systems at the Undergraduate Research Scholars Symposium in College Station, Tx USA The team developed a...
by Prof. Robert S. Balog | Feb 7, 2020 | Conference, Graduate Students, IEEE, Papers
Ph.D. student Ms. Minjeong Kim presented her paper entitled “A PWM Method for Single-Phase Current-Sourced High Frequency AC Link Inverter” at the 2020 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference in College Station, Tx USA The paper proposes a new pulse width modulation...
by Prof. Robert S. Balog | Feb 6, 2020 | Conference, Graduate Students, IEEE, Papers
Ph.D. student Mr. Lance Alpuerto presented his paper entitled “Comparing Connection Topologies of PV Integrated Curved Roof Tile for Improved Performance” at the 4th IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) in College Station, Tx USA. Partial shaded conditions...
by Prof. Robert S. Balog | Feb 4, 2020 | Meetings, Seminar / Talk, Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate students Mr. Seif ElGazer, Mr. Abdelrahman Amer, and Ms. Nabila Elbeheiry present their senior design project at the I AM QF conference which commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Qatar Foundation in Doha, Qatar. Senior design is meant to be a...
by Prof. Robert S. Balog | Dec 9, 2019 | Career, Graduate Students
The REAPER Lab congratulates Ph.D. student Mr. Lance Alpuerto for passing his preliminary examination. His research pertains to the multiphysics modeling, validation, and optimization of non-planar photovoltaic (PV) applications. Lance received his B.A. in Mathematics...
by Prof. Robert S. Balog | Nov 20, 2019 | Career, Graduate Students
REAPER Lab congratulates Ph.D. student Ms. Minjeong Kim for passing her preliminary examination. Her research topic pertains to control of thyristor-based single and three-phase inverters. Minjeong received her B.Sc. from Yonsei University in Seoul, S. Korea, in 2014...
by ReaperLab | Nov 20, 2019 | Conference, Graduate Students, IEEE, Papers, Researchers
M.S. student Moustafa Raslan presented a paper, co-authored with Dr. Robert Balog, entitled “Bi-stable Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Switch for PV Skin” at the SGRE 2019 Conference in Doha, Qatar on 20th November 2019. In this paper, a design concept for a bi-stable...
