Center for Energy Systems and Control (CESaC)

The Center for Energy Systems and Controls (CESaC) is dedicated to research and development of efficient tools for analysis and design for power system and planning. System theories and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, artificial neural network and fuzzy logic are investigated to improve quantitative and qualitative analysis of decision making for power system studies. Also, modern control theories are applied to solve large scale engineering problems by various investigators at the Center.

CESaC research has been largely supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Bonneville Power Administration, the Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles, and NASA (Lewis). CESaC research is directed to enhancing the efficiency and economics of power system operation through the application of expert knowledge systems and programs and power utilization analysis. CESaC is a member of the National Center for Research in Electrical Power Systems (PSERC), a consortium consisting of Cornell, Howard, U. California/Berkeley, U. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign and U. of Wisconsin/Madison. PSERC was established by the National Science Foundation in 1997 with a grant for $200,000 per year for five years. PSERC's purpose is to help the electrical power industry achieve high performance capability necessary to meet the challenges of restructuring the nation's electric-energy system. CESaC director: Dr. James A. Momoh, [email protected]. Visit CESaC online: www.cesac.howard.edu.



Material Science Research Center of Excellence (MSRCE)

The primary mission of the Material Science Research Center of Excellence (MSRCE) is to advance the frontiers of knowledge through basic research of electronic and electro-optic materials and devices. The Center's investigations focus on researching, understanding and optimizing the growth of artificially structured materials and wide-bandgap semiconductors. Improvements in the growth of these materials allows for the fabrication of high-power devices, which promise to extend the performance of microwave and optical power devices to higher frequencies and higher peak power levels. MSRCE is also committed to educating minority researchers who can fill academic, government and industrial positions.

MSRCE contributes to the Nation's economic competitiveness by advancing the frontiers of knowledge through basic research. The Center also seeks to accelerate the application of new research to resolve the Nation's more practical, economically important problems. The Center provides faculty and students the opportunity to engage in research which will receive universal recognition in the relevant scientific community. This multidisciplinary program includes faculty from Electrical and Chemical Engineering and the departments of Physics and Chemistry at Howard.

In 1997, MSRCE joined Cornell, Penn State, UCSB and Stanford in an NSF-sponsored National Nanofabrication User's Network. Dr. Michael Spencer (Electrical Engineering) is the director of MSRCE [email protected]; Dr. Gary L. Harris and Dr. Steven L. Richardson are MSRCE associate directors. Other MSRCE principals are Drs. Mobolaji E. Aluko (Chemical Engineering), Joshua Halpern (Chemistry), Hideo Okabe (Chemistry) and Emmanuel K. Glakpe (Mechanical Engineering).



Computational Science and Engineering Research Center (ComSERC)

Founded in 1988, and nurtured by the university's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, ComSERC has developed into a system of five research laboratories and a central research facility containing an Alliant FX2800 supercomputer. The FX2800 and FX80 supercomputers are the foundation for ComSERC's Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) and the hub for the Historically Black College's and Universities' (HBCU's) wide area (communications) network.

Through the use of high performance computing. ComSERC's researchers are able to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to applied and theoretical research. Through competitive bidding ComSERC has emerged as the key participant in a number of projects involving the development of information technology, task management systems and distance learning.