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Nicole Parker will cross the stage at UCF’s Fall 2024 commencement ceremony poised to make the world a better place by developing more efficient renewable energy sources, integrating renewable energy into the grid and making existing power systems more efficient and reliable.
At UCF, she was able to gain hands-on experience with technology used in the industry as a member of the Siemens Digital Grid Lab, led by Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Wei Sun.
The lab, an in-kind gift from Siemens in 2017, is used as part of the curriculum in upper-level electrical engineering classes and serves as an active research lab. The facility gives students and researchers the opportunity to use real-time digital simulations of power grids and prototype microgrid systems. The lab also enables users to incorporate renewable energy sources and design and operate self-healing grids that are less vulnerable to cyberattacks and natural disasters, including damage from hurricanes.
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