Ross Baldick Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering  Engineering Science Building ENS 502  The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1084 Tel: (512) 471-5879; Fax: (512) 471-5532  Email: baldick@ece.utexas.edu  WWW: www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick

Tips/Messages for Students and Visitors

• Please email me if you would like to meet with me.
• Qualifying exams and doctoral committees
• Prospective undergraduate interns
• Prospective graduate students
• Prospective visiting scholars and post-doctoral fellows
• Grader positions
• Power Systems and Energy Conversion Technical Area

Honors and Awards [ Curriculum Vitae ]

• University of Texas Faculty Research Assignment, Fall 2009.
• Fellow of the IEEE, 2007.

• IEEE Power Engineering Society, Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Technical Committee Prize Paper Award, 2006 (with Richard P. O’Neill, Udi Helman, Michael H. Rothkopf, and William Stewart, Jr.)

• Best Presentation in Energy Sponsored Sessions Award, INFORMS conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2003 (with Stathis Tompaidis and Sergey Kolos).
• Leland Barclay Fellowship in Engineering, 2003-2010, 
• Engineering Foundation Faculty Award, University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

Research Funding

• "Techno-economic modeling of integration of 20% Wind and large-scale energy storage in ERCOT grid by 2030," Department of Energy, 2010-2011.

• "PHEVs as Dynamically Configurable Dispersed Energy Storage," Power Systems Engineering Research Center, July 2009–August 2011.

• "Transocean Power Plant Analysis and Modeling Initiative," Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc., September 2008–August 2009.

• "Tools for Assessment of Transmission-Constrained Market Power in Electricity Markets," NSF Research Grant, 2008-2010.
• "Tools for Assessment of Bidding into Electricity Auctions," PSERC Research Grant, 2006-2008.
• "Reducing the Vulnerability of Electric Power Grids to Terrorist Attacks," Department of Energy Research Grant, 2005-2007.
• "Transmission Constrained Supply Function Equilibrium Analysis of Electric Power Markets," National Science Foundation Research Grant, 2004-2006.
• "Analysis and Simulation of Strategic Behavior and Price Processes in Transmission Constrained Electricity Markets,"
  National Science Foundation Research Grant, 2000-2002.
• National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1994,
• National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1993.

Research Interests  [ Recent Papers ]

• Analysis of restructured electricity markets, market power, and electric transmission,
• Offer tools for electricity markets (with Steven Puller of Texas A&M University) See: Offer Tool
• Electricity system analysis, operations, and planning,
• Vulnerability of electric grids to terrorist attack (with Javier Salmeron and Kevin Wood of the Naval Postgraduate School)  See: VEGA
• VLSI circuit analysis.

Book Applied Optimization: Formulation and Algorithms for Engineering Systems, Cambridge University Press 2006.  This book is the text for the class "Optimization of Engineering Systems," described below.  For a description of the features of the book, from a presentation at the INFORMS 2006 Annual Meeting, see presentation. Course slides based on the book can be downloaded from: Three Introductory Chapters  Linear  Nonlinear  Unconstrained  Equality  Inequality I  Inequality II  See the  Cambridge University Press Catalog for ordering information, further details, and downloadable additional materials, including over 400 pages of solutions to homework exercises available to instructors.

  Calendar

• Upcoming presentations,
• Short-courses,
• Doctoral qualifying exams and defenses,
• Links to presentations at ERCOT Energized, a one-day symposium, held May 2008, focusing on the upcoming ERCOT market.

 Teaching Plans and Course Web Pages

• Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes EE351K Section 15565  Spring 2006 Undergraduate)
• Power Systems Engineering (Fall 2008 Undergraduate)
• Power Systems Engineering II (Fall 2007 Graduate)
• Simulation methods in CAD/VLSI (Fall 2001 Graduate)
• Optimization of Engineering Systems (Spring 2009 Graduate)              
  • Course slides can be downloaded from: Three Introductory Chapters  Linear  Nonlinear  Unconstrained  Equality  Inequality I  Inequality II 
  • Pre-requisite material for taking this course can be downloaded from: Appendices
  • Errata to the book and to the homework exercises
• Restructured Electricity Markets: Locational Marginal Pricing (Fall 2008 Graduate)
• Restructured Electricity Markets: Market Power (Spring 2010 Graduate)
• Economic Analysis of Power Systems (Fall 2004 Graduate)
• Introduction to Electric Power for Legal and Regulatory Professionals, A three day short course.  For details, see Course Webpage or email Ross Baldick  
• Economics of locational marginal pricing, A one day short course for ERCOT stakeholders.

Graduate Students

• Lin Xu: supply function equilibrium models and transmission-constrained market analysis tools,
• Jin Hur: analysis of cascading outages, wind penetration, power system software application development,
• Emmanouil Kalaitzakis: nodal market modeling,
• Yin Wu: power plant analysis and modeling,
• Yen-Yu Lee: transmission-constrained market analysis tools,
• Cheol Hee Cho: electricity markets,
• Hee Jung Park: electricity markets, expansion planning,
• Thekla Boutsika: ancillary service requirements in the presence of increasing wind penetration,
• Mansoureh Peydaayesh: market analysis tools.

Links to job opportunities in the electric power industry

• Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA): http://www.lcra.org/about/employment/index.html

Other Interesting Links

• IEEE Power and Energy Virtual Community
• IEEE Power Engineering Society System Economics Sub-Committee
• IEEE Power Engineering Society Panel and Paper Session Presentations 
• Introduction to Electric Power for Legal and Regulatory Professionals
• Harvard Electricity Policy Group
• University of California Energy Institute
• Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC)