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Paul W Davis

Professor
Director, London Project Center

Faculty Listing
Office: Stratton Hall, 202D
Phone: +1-508-831-5241
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
pwdavis@wpi.edu

Educational Background

• B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1966
• M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1968
• Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1970

Research & Teaching Interests

Applied mathematics and computation; Electric power systems; Interferometry; Interdisciplinary, project-based learning on and off campus; Unit commitment, Optimal power flow, Economic dispatch, State estimation, Other control and measurement problems for electric power networks 

IQP Advising Interests

Computers & education; introducing new teaching materials; assessing educational experience

Recent Publications

• Multiperiod hydrothermal economic dispatch by interior point methods, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, to appear, with L. M. Kimball, K.A. Clements, and I. Nejdawi

• Stochastic OPF by constraint relaxation, 2003 IEEE Bologna PowerTech Proceedings, paper 340, with L. M Kimball, K. A. Clements, and Slobodan Pajic

• An Implementation of the Stochastic OPF, Electric Power Components and Systems, Aug. 2002, with L. M. Kimball and K. A. Clements

• Stochastic OPF via Bender's method, 2001 IEEE Porto Power Tech Proceedings, J. T. Saraiva and M. A. Matos (ed), Porto, Portugal, 10--13 September 2001, v. III, p. PSO2-227 (2001), with L. M Kimball and K. A. Clements

• Preparation for global engineering practice in the twenty-first century, Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Engineering Education , Taipei and Tainan, 14--18 August 2000 (with J. Zeugner, L. Schachterle, E. A. Parrish, Y. H. Ma, and W. W. Durgin)

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Honors & Awards

• WPI Trustees' Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 1990
• John E. Sinclair Professorship, 1991 - 1994
• Department of the Army (Army Research Office) Certificate of Achievement, 1993

Professional Societies/Memberships

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Pi Mu Epsilon
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• Sigma Xi
• Mathematical Association of America
• American Mathematical Society

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