Brian K. Johnson
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Brian K. Johnson, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor
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General Information
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
PO Box 441023
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1023
Office: BEL 214, 208-885-6902
b.k.johnson@ieee.org
Education
- BS., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987.
- MS., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989.
- PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992.
Industrial Experience
1989: Electronics Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
University and Department Activities
- Member University Research Council
- Coordinator for the Certificate in Power Systems Protection and Relaying
- Chair, Department Graduate Committee
- Member, Department Laboratories Committee
- Member, Computer Engineering Program Committee
- Undergraduate Advisor for Computer Engineering Seniors and
Computer Engineering Transfer Students
- Advisor for IEEE Student Branch
Professional Activities
Current IEEE Power Engineering Society Technical Committees
- Chair, IEEE Working Group on
Superconductivity T&D: Products, Common Applications and Analysis
- Secretary, IEEE Working Group on Distributed Resources: Modeling and
Analysis
- Power Globe Working Group
- Working Group on Digital Simulation of Power System Transients
- General Systems Subcommittee (under T&D Committee)
- DC and FACTS Subcommittee (under T&D Committee)
- Research Subcommittee (under Power Engineering Education
Committee)
- Distribution
Custom Power Task Force (contributor to Recommended Practice Document)
- Task Force on Data for Modeling Power Systems Transients
- Task Force on Simulation of FACTS and Custom Power Controls
- Task Force on Tools for System Transient Studies, Digital Programs,
RTDS and TNA
- Task Force on Statistics, Sensitivity and Precision in Transient
Analysis
Current IEEE Industry Applications Society Technical Committees
- IEEE Violet Book, co-author of one chapter
- IEEE Grey Book Revision, contributor to one chapter
Other Technical Activities
Review of Technical Papers and Proposals
- Review papers for the following IEEE Transactions: Power Delivery,
Power Systems, Applied Superconductivity, Education, Power Electronics,
Electromagnetic Compatibility.
- Review papers for Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers.
- Review papers for the following conferences: International Conference on
Power Systems Transients, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
IEEE Industry Applications Annual Meeting, Frontiers of Education Conference,
Industrial Electronics Society Conference.
- Review proposals for the National Science Foundation, U.S. Civilian
Research and Development Foundations for the Independent States for the
Former Soviet Union.
Course Materials
Semester Long Courses
- COE/EE 243 (ECE 240): Digital Logic, Web page from Spring 2003
- COE/EE 244 (ECE241): Logic Circuit Laboratory, Web page from Spring 2003
- EE 320: Energy Systems I, Fall 2003.
- EE 421: Introduction
to Power Systems, Fall 2002.
- EE 422: Power Systems Analysis Spring 2003.
- EE424: Power Electronic Circuits, Spring 2002
- EE 521: Power Systems Planning and Resources, Spring 1994.
-
EE523: Symmetrical Components, Spring 2002
-
EE524: Transients in Power Systems, Spring 2001 (tapes reused Spring 03 with Joe Law supervising course)
- EE525: Power System
Protection and Relaying, Fall 2002
- EE 528: Understanding Power Quality, Spring 1998.
- EE529: Utility Applications of Power Electronics, Fall 2003
Many of these courses are available on videotape through
Engineering Outreach
Short Courses
- International Conference on Power Systems Transients (in cooperation
with the University of Wisconsin) "Power Electronic Models for FACTS
Controllers" Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 24-28,
2001 (with Dennis Woodford of Electranix Corporation and Willis Long of
the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Idaho Power Corporation: "Using ATPDraw and Line Modeling with ATP"
August 2000.
- Schweitzer Engineering Lab: "Using ATP and ATPDraw,"
Summer and Fall 1999 (with Richard Wall of the Univ of Idaho).
- Southern California Edison: "Understanding Power Quality"
December 13-19, 1999 (with Herbert Hess of the Univ of Idaho)
- University of Wisconsin Engineering Professional
Development: "Power Systems Analysis Using the
Electromagnetic Transients Program," Part II, Distribution
and Power Quality Applications of the EMTP,
June 10-12, 1996 (with Tom Grebe of Electrotek Concepts and Le Tang of ABB).
- University of Wisconsin Engineering Professional
Development: "Power Systems Analysis Using the
Electromagnetic Transients Program," Part III, EMTP Models for
Protective Relay Systems. June 19-21, 1995 (with Gabriel Benmouyal of IREQ,
Daniel Hamai of WAPA, Rick Kuffel of RTDS Technologies Inc. and .
Paul Forsythe of RTDS Technologies, Inc.)
- University of Wisconsin Engineering Professional
Development: "Power Systems Analysis Using the
Electromagnetic Transients Program," Part III, FACTS and
HVDC Modeling Using TACS. June 13-16, 1994 (with Robert Lasseter of the
Univ of Wisconsin and Kurt Fehrle, Consultant).
- Schweitzer Engineering Lab/Idaho Power: ``Using TACS within EMTP,''
May 23, 1994 (with Richard Wall).
- Idaho Power Company/Schweitzer Engineering Lab: ``EMTP Modeling of
Synchronous Generators,'' January 17, 1994 (with Richard Wall).
- University of Wisconsin Engineering Professional
Development: ``Power Systems Analysis Using the
Electromagnetic Transients Program,'' Part III, FACTS and
HVDC Modeling Using TACS. June 14-17, 1993 (with Robert Lasseter of the
Univ of Wisconsin and Kurt Fehrle, Consultant).
Research Interests
Power electronic applications for the control of power
transmission and distribution systems (FACTS devices, Custom Power Devices,
Distributed generation and storage), power system protection, power
quality, superconductivity applications in transmission and distribution,
energy storage systems, real time simulation of traffic systems.
Current Research Projects
Affiliations Within the University of Idaho
Microelectronics Research and
Communications Institute.
National Institute for
Advanced Transportation Technologies.
University of Idaho
Power Applications Research Group
Information for Graduate Students
Graduate student information
Selected Publications
Journal Publications
Note, the IEEE Transactions papers are available in electronic form at
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org if
you are a member of IEEE and subscribe to those journals.
- G. Venkataramanan and B.K. Johnson, "A Pulse Width Modulated Series
Compensator," Submitted to IEE Proceedings on Generation, Transmission
and Distribution.
- Darcy Bullock, Brian Johnson, Richard B. Wells, Michael Kyte, and Zhen Li,
"Hardware in the Loop Simulation," Submitted to Transportation Research.
Part C: Emerging Technologies,
- P. Ribeiro, B. Johnson, M. Crow, and A. Arsoy, "Energy Storage
Systems for Advanced Power Applications," Accepted for Publication in
Proceedings of the IEEE.
- Brian K. Johnson, Joseph D. Law, Gerald P. Saw, "Using a Superconducting
Magnetic Energy Storage Coil to Improve Efficiency of a Gas Turbine
Powered High Speed Rail Locomotive," IEEE Transactions on Applied
Superconductivity. Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2001, pp. 1900-1903.
- B.K. Johnson and H.L. Hess, "Active Damping for Electromagnetic
Transients in Superconducting Systems,"
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. Vol. 9,
No. 2, pp. 318-321, June 1999.
- B.K. Johnson and G. Venkataramanan,
"A Hybrid Solid State Phase Shifter Using PWM AC Converters,"
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. Vol. 13, No. 4, pp.
1316-1321, October 1998.
- B.K. Johnson, R.H. Lasseter, and F.L. Alvarado,
"Incorporation of a SMES Coil into a
Superconducting LVDC Transmission System," IEEE
Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. Vol. 7, No. 2, Part 1,
pp. 419-422, June 1997.
- G.Venkataramanan and B.K. Johnson, "A Pulse Width Modulated Power Line
Conditioner for Sensitive Load Centers,"
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 844-849, April 1997.
- R.W. Wall and B.K. Johnson, "Using TACS Functions Within EMTP to Teach
Protective Relaying Fundamentals," IEEE Transactions on Power
Delivery. Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 3-10, February 1997.
- G.Venkataramanan, B.K. Johnson, and Ashok Sundaram, "An AC-AC Power
Converter for Custom Power Applications," IEEE Transactions on Power
Delivery. Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1666-1671, July 1996
- B.K. Johnson, R.H. Lasseter, F.L. Alvarado, and R. Adapa,
"Superconducting Breakers and Current Transfer Devices For Use with
a Superconducting LVDC Mesh," IEEE Transactions on Applied
Superconductivity. Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 216-222, December, 1994.
- B.K. Johnson, R.H Lasseter, F.L. Alvarado, D.M. Divan,
H. Singh, M.C. Chandorkar, and R. Adapa, "High Temperature
Superconducting DC Networks," IEEE Transactions on Applied
Superconductivity. Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 115-120, September 1994.
- B.K. Johnson, R.H Lasseter, F.L. Alvarado, D.M. Divan, H. Singh,
M.C. Chandorkar, R. Adapa, "Superconducting Low Voltage DC
Transmission Networks," Journal of Electric Machines and Power Systems.
Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 629-645, November-December, 1994.
- B.K. Johnson, R.H. Lasseter, F.L. Alvarado, and R. Adapa,
"Expandable Multiterminal DC Systems Based on Voltage Droop,"
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. Vol. 8, No. 4,
pp. 1926-1932, October 1993.
- Johnson, B.K. R.H. Lasseter, and R. Adapa, "Power Control
on a Superconducting LVDC Mesh." IEEE Transactions on Power
Delivery. Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 1282-1288. July 1991.
Invited Papers
- R. B. Wells, J. Fisher, Y. Zhou, B. Johnson, M.
Kyte "Hardware and Software Considerations for Implementing Hardware in
the Loop Traffic Simulation," IEEE IECON'01 November 2001.
Conference Publications
- B.K. Johnson, and J.D. Law,
"Using a Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage Coil to
Improve Efficiency of a Gas Turbine Powered High Speed Rail Locomotive"
Presented at 2000 Applied Superconductivity Conference. Virginia
Beach, Virginia, September 2001.
- L. Henriksen, B.K. Johnson and H.L. Hess, Dispersed Fuel
Cell Generation Applied to Rural Electric Distribution Systems.
Fuel Cell Seminar, Palm Springs CA, November 16-19, 1998.
- B.K. Johnson and H.L. Hess, ``Active Damping for Electromagnetic
Transients in Superconducting Systems,'' 1998
Applied Superconductivity Conference. Palm Desert CA, Sept. 14, 1998.
- H.L. Hess and B.K. Johnson, ``Incorporating SMES Coils in FACTS
and Custom Power Devices,'' 1998
Applied Superconductivity Conference. Palm Desert CA, Sept. 14, 1998.
- A.A. Miller, W. Qian, B.K. Johnson, J.D. Law, and R.W. Wall,
``High Speed Locomotives with Energy Storage,'' Proceedings
of the 1997 North American Power Symposium (NAPS).
October 13-14 1997, Laramie Wyoming, pp. 557-562.
- B.K. Johnson, J.D. Law, T. Busch, T. Brown, D. Angell,
``Dynamic Simulation of Internal Transients in Synchronous Machines,''
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Power System
Transients. June 22-26 1997, Seattle WA, pp. 211-216
- B.K. Johnson and R.E. Wilson, ``The Use of EMTP Relay Models to
Teach Power System Protection in a Distance Education Setting.''
1997 American Society of Engineering Education
Annual Meeting. June 16-19, 1997, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- B. K. Johnson, G. Venkataramanan, J. Hamann, D. Egolf, V. Gerez
``Graduate Teaching Alliances - Experiences from a Western
Experiment,''
1997 American Society of Engineering Education
Annual Meeting. June 16-19, 1997, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- B.K. Johnson, ``Incorporation of a SMES Coil into a
Superconducting LVDC Transmission System,''Presented at 1996
Applied Superconductivity Conference. Pittsburgh, PA, August 1996.
- B.K. Johnson, G. Venkataramanan, and M. Manjrekar, ``A Hybrid
Solid State Phase Shifter for Continuous Phase Shift Control in
Transmission Lines,'' Proceedings of the 1996 Canadian
Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Calgary, Alberta, May 26-29, 1996, pp 851-954.
- F.L. Alvarado, B.K. Johnson, J. Mahseredjian, ``The Design of
Time Domain Simulation Tools: the Computational Engine Approach,''
1995 MATLAB Conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts,
October 16-18, 1995.
- B. Johnson, T. Kakar, P. Larrondo, and G. Venkataramanan,
``Role of Energy Islands, Power Fences, and Electronic Gateways in
a Deregulated Utility Environment,''
Proceedings of the Eight International Power Quality Solutions
'95. Long Beach, California, pp. 143-154, September 9-15, 1995.
- G. Venkataramanan, B. Johnson, and J. Law, ``A DC Power
System Architecture for Small Stand-Alone Power Systems,''
Proceedings of the Eight International Power Quality Solutions
'95. Long Beach, California, pp. 307-315, September 9-15, 1995.
- B.K. Johnson, ``Superconducting Low Voltage Direct Current
Transmission,'' NSF Symposium on Power Systems
Infrastructure. Oct 27-29, 1994.
- G. Venkataramanan, B.K. Johnson, and A. Sundaram,
``AC-AC Power Converters for Distribution Control,''
NSF Symposium on Power Systems Infrastructure. Oct 27-29, 1994.
- B.K. Johnson, F.L. Alvarado, and R.H. Lasseter,
``A DC Power Distribution System Featuring UPS Properties,''
Proceedings of the Seventh International
Power Quality/Telecomputer Infrastructure Conference.
Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, September 17-22, 1994, pp 96-106.
- S. Srinivasan, G. Venkataramanan, B.K. Johnson, and
A. Sundaram, ``Custom Power Using AC Power Converters,''
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International
Power Conversion Conference. Dallas/Ft. Worth,
Texas, Sept. 17-22, 1994, pp. 341-350.
- Johnson, B.K. and R.H. Lasseter ``An Industrial Power Distribution
System Featuring UPS Properties,''
1993 IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference Record.
Seattle, WA, June, 1993, pp. 759-765.
- Johnson, B.K. and M.C. Chandorkar, `Power Conditioning Interfaces
for Medium Power Photovoltaic Systems.' Presented at:
International Conference on Electrical Rotating Machines. January
15-16, 1992, Bombay, India. Session VI-B, Paper 10.
Panel Session Presentations
- ``Power Semiconductors (part of panel on Data for Modeling
Power System Transients),''
IEEE Power Engineering
Society Winter Meeting. Columbus Ohio, February, 1, 2001.
- ``Sensitivity Assessment to Line and Cable Data on Protection
Studies (part of panel on Statistics, Sensitivity and Precision
in Transient Analysis,)''IEEE Power Engineering
Society Winter Meeting. Columbus Ohio, February, 1, 2001.
- ``Simulation of TSC and TSSC (part of panel on Simulation of
FACTS and Custom-Power Controllers,)'' IEEE Power Engineering
Society Winter Meeting. Columbus Ohio, February, 1, 2001.
- ``Innovations and Challenges in Distance Education,''
IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting. Tampa, Florida,
February 11, 1998.
- ``International Distance Learning,'' IEEE Power Engineering
Society Summer Meeting. Berlin, Germany, July 23, 1997.
- ``The Power Quality Challenge of Utility Deregulation,''
PCIM/Power Quality '95. Long Beach, CA, September 12, 1995.