Bruce F. Wollenberg
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Director of the University of Minnesota Center for Electric Energy

B.E.E., 1964, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.Eng., 1966, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ph.D., 1974, University of Pennsylvania

Telephone: (612) 626-7192

E-mail: wollenbe@ece.umn.edu
Web Page: http://www.ece.umn.edu/users/wollenbe/


Fellow IEEE
1987 Control Data Corporation Technical Excellence Award

My research interests are in the field of power system engineering. This area of electrical engineering is concerned with the application of control and optimization techniques to the design of power systems and power system control. Many of the problems of power system engineering involve development of special computer algorithms to solve the steady state conditions or to optimize the operation of a power system network.

My current interests are in the development of new deregulated electric power market configurations using mechanism design, in new algorithms to accurately allocate losses and other ancillary service related quantities to transactions made on a transmission system, and control systems which use small area transmission models and network communications to solve large transmission system problems.


Selected Publications

Solving for Three Phase Conductively Isolated Busbar Voltages using Phase Component Analysis, D. M. Anderson, B. F. Wollenberg, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.10, no.1, February 1995, p.98-108.

Power Generation Operation and Control, Allen J. Wood, B. F. Wollenberg, Second Edition published by John Wiley and Sons, New York, January 1996.

Transmission Access Issues, A. F. Vojdani, C. F. Imparato, N. K. Saini, B. F. Wollenberg, H. H. Happ, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems" vol. 11, no. 1, February 1996, p. 41-49.

Incorporation of an Advanced Evaluation Criteria in an Expert System for the Creation and Evaluation of Planned Switching Sequences, Noel N. Schulz, Bruce F. Wollenberg, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems". vol. 12, no. 3, August 1997, p. 1167-1176.

Transmission Dispatch and Congestion Management in the Emerging Energy Market Structures, D. Shirmohammadi, B. Wollenberg, A. Vojdani, P. Sandrin, M. Pereira, F. Rahimi, T. Schneider, B. Stott, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.13, no.4, November 1998, p.1466-74. Publisher: IEEE.