OTHER ACTIVITIES
Here are some of Prof. Mitra's outreach activities.
PES Fellow Evaluation Committee
Prof. Mitra is Chair of the Fellow Evaluation Committee of the Power & Energy Society (PES) of the IEEE.
AMPS Committee (Previously known as PSACE)
Prof. Mitra is Past Chair
of the Analytic Methods for Power Systems (AMPS) Committee of the IEEE-PES.
PEEC Research Subcommittee
Prof. Mitra is Past Chair
of the Research Subcommittee of Power & Energy Education
Committee of the IEEE-PES.
Institute of Public Utilities
Prof. Mitra is a Senior Faculty
Associate with the Instutute of Public Utilities, the nation's
leading provider of continuing education for public utility
regulators from Michigan, the U.S. and international agencies.
RRPA
Subcommittee ActivitiesProf. Mitra served as Chair of the
IEEE Reliability, Risk and Probability Applications (RRPA)
Subcommittee from 2009-11. This SC is part of the PSACE.
Student Activities at PES Meetings
From January 2006 to December 2007
Prof. Mitra served as Chair
of the Student Meetings Subcommittee, which is part of the
Power & Energy Education Committee of the IEEE-PES. He held
other offices in this SC from January 2002 to December 2005. In
these six years of leadership he helped organize eight Student
Programs, with a total participation of over 770 students. As part
of these programs the SC also had Student Poster Contests. In the
eight Contests that Prof. Mitra helped organize and administer,
there were over 360 participants.
The North American Power Symposium 2007
Prof. Mitra and a colleague organized
and Chaired the 39th Annual North American Power Symposium in 2007.
The conference was co-sponsored by IEEE, and was attended by 160
registered delegates. At the conference, 110 papers were presented
in 21 sessions. The above link provides a look into the organization
of the conference and included activites. You may also view the proceedings,
but please bear in mind that these are copyrighted.
IEEE Tutorial on Power System Reliability
Prof. Mitra organized and Chaired an
IEEE tutorial on power system reliability. It was offered at three
major IEEE Power Engineering Society conferences, and was attended
by 175 registrants. The success of the event earned the team of
instructors a Technical
Committee Working Group Recognition Award. The above link
provides a little information on the tutorial and the instructors.
Short Course on Power System Reliability
In January 2006 Prof. Mitra and a
colleague taught a short course on Electric Power System Reliability
Evaluation, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. This
was a 16 hour, 1 SCH course, and was attended by 20 graduate
students. The above link provides the course outline.
The Distributed and Renewable Energy Symposium 2003
While at New Mexico State University, Prof. Mitra
organized and Chaired the Distributed and Renewable Energy Symposium 2003.