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Charles Kim, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Howard University
2300 6th St. NW
Washington, DC 20059
Tel: 202-806-4821
E-mail: ckim@howard.edu
Office: L. K. Downing Hall #3014
Areas of Interest
 
1. Energy Systems and Smart Grid
2. Self Healing and Incipient Fault Detection/Location
3. System Safety
4. Embedded Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks
5. Safety-Critical Embedded Systems Design and Application
6. Cellular Automata Application in Distributed Control (UAV and LED)
7. Engineering Education and Technology Use in Classroom

Researches

1. Microgrid: Proof-of-Concept Study for San Diego Gas & Electric ---- Students Workers (D'Angelo Woods, Christina Cheek, and Mulegeta Damamo) (2009 - 2010 School Year)
 
2. Demand Response Program Development and Analysis for Tacoma Power ---- Student Workers (Marc Inninis, Lloyd Eley, and Itotoh Akghibe) (200- 2010 school year)
 
3. Fault Location in Dsitribution Networks in Smart Grid for San Diego Gas & Electric --- Student Workers (Tracy Adams, Henry Cobb, William Reids, and Tierra Byrd) (2008 - 2009 school year)
 
4. Air Traffic Management: TMA Metric Analysis (Funded by FAA: 8/23/04 - 8/15/07) --Student Workers: Daniel Akinbodunse (MS Degree in 2006. Currently at Black & Beatch Corp.) Ken Nwakamma (MS Degree in 2007. Currently at USPTO)
 
5. Knowledge Collaboration in Smart Sensor Network -- Student workers: Derssie Mebaratu (Ph.D student), Tibebu Hailemariam (Ph.D. Student) and Jong Ro Jurn (a visiting researcher from Donyang Technical College, Korea)
 
6. Fault Propagation in Power Grid and Blackouts --Student Workers (Obinna Obah, Ph.D. Degree in 2008 now at Areva T&D)
 
7. Reliability Centered T&D Asset Management with Modeling of Risk and Investment in Deregulated Electricity Market -- Student worker Robert Sowah (Ph.D. degree in 2009, now at Ghana University)
 
8. Passive Radar: Passive Radar Utilizing Broadcast Signals (Funded by ORA: 7/1/03 - 6/30/05) --Student Workers: Scotty Mazyck II (MS degree in 2005. Currently at an undisclosed place), Duane Howard (BS degree in 2005. Currently at Georgia Tech), Annushka Chin Fong (Undergraduate student. Currently working for Cummins in somewhere in Indiana)
 
9. HP Technology for Teaching Grant (Summer 2005 - Summer 2006)
 
10. Smart Lighting ERC
 
11. Internet-Based Data-Fusion and Decision-Making
 
12. Incipient Fault Detection using Intelligent systems
 
13. Home Networking with Power Line Communication and Faulty-Wire Detection (Funded by Saturn) Link to Final Report.
 
14. Physics of Failure and Failure Mechanism Analysis
 
15. Entropy Minimization Application for Decision-Making
 
16. Incipient Electric Fire Detection
 
17. Intermittent Electrical Fault Detection (Funded by Boeing: Sep 2007 - Present) -- Students workers: Obinna Obah and Tolu Onibiyo

 

Publications

My Ph.D. Dissertation: An Intelligent Decision Making System for Detecting High Impedance Faults (Texas A&M University, 1989)
My Master Thesis: Magnetic Field Effect on the Positive Column of Fluorescent Lamp (Seoul National University, Feb 1980)

A. Incipient Fault/Failure Detection and Analysis

Charles Kim, "Lecture Notes on Fault Detection and Location in Distribution Systems, 2010" -- This lecture note is the product of a post-graduate course (3 credit hours) I taught at Aalto University, formerly known as TKK or Helsinki University of Technology, (Department of Electrical Engineering), Espoo, Helsinki, in June 2010.
Lecture 1 (Introduction), Lecture 2 (Faulted Power System), Lecture 3 (Fault Location Algorithms), Lecture 4 (Fault Indicators), Lecture 5 (Sub-cycle fault location method. Contact me if you need this note), Lecture 6 (Fault Location by Smart Meters), and Lecture 7 (Final Exam). Extra Lecture (Line Monitoring for Fault Anticipation and Vegetation Control. Contact me if you need this note.)
 
Charles Kim and Tom Bialek, "Sub-Cycle Ground Fault Location - Formulation and Preliminary Results," 2011 IEEE Power Systems Conference & Exposition, March 20-23, 2011. Phoenix AZ.
 

Charles Kim, "Detection and Location of Intermittent Faults by Monitoring Carrier Signal Channel Behavior of Electrical Interconnection System, Proceedings of 2009 IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium p. 449-455. April 20 - 22, 2009. Baltimore, MD. Presentation File in pdf.

Charles Kim, "Electromagnetic Radiation behavior of Low Voltage Arcing Fault," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Jan 2009.
 
Charles Kim and Robert Sowah, "Arcing Fault Detection with Experimental Verification using Antenna for Signal Capture of Radiated Electromagnetic Energy," 10th Aging Aircraft Conference, April 16 - 19, 2007. Palm Springs, CA. Presentation File in Pdf format.
 
Charles Kim and Nicholas Johnson, "Detection of Intermittent Faults in Aircraft Electrical Wire by Utilizing Power Line Communication," Presented in the 9th joint FAA/DOD/NASA Conference on Aging Aircraft, March 7, 2006. Atlanta, GA.
 
Charles J. Kim, S. J. Lee, and S. H, Kang, "Evaluation of Feeder Monitoring Parameters for Incipient Fault Detection Using Laplace Trend Statistic," IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, vol.6, no. 6, pp. 1718-1724. Nov/Dec 2004
 
Charles J. Kim, James A. Momoh and Heung-Jae Lee, "Phase-Time Analysis of the Leakage Impulse Current of Unhealthy Line-Post Pin Insulators," IEEE Transaction on Power Delivery. vol.18, no. 1, pp.323-328, January 2003
 
Charles J. Kim and Mohamed F. Chouikha, "An Uncertainty Reasoning Method for Synergistic Diagnosis," International Journal of Computers and Their Applications,Vol.11, No.1, Mach 2004. pp.1-7
 
Charles J. Kim, "Home Networking with Power Line Communication and Faulty-Wire Detection" Final Report.
 
C. J. Kim, Peter Bofah, "Evidence Based Power Plant Diagnosis for Reliable Electric Energy Production in Power Utility," 4th International Conference on Power Systems Operation and Planning, July 31 - August 3, 2000, Accra, Ghana, pp.323-326
Charles J. Kim, "Identification of Symptom Parameters for Failure Anticipation by Timed-Event Trend Analysis," Power Engineering Letter, pp.48-50, September 2000.
C. J. Kim, J. H. Shin, M. H. Yoo, G. W. Lee, “A Study on the Characterization of the Incipient Failure Behavior of Insulators in Power Distribution Line,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 519-524, April 1999.
 
C. J. Kim and B. D. Russell, "Analysis of Distribution Disturbances and Arcing Faults using the Crest Factor", Electric Power Systems Research, volume 35, pp.141-148, 1995.
 
C. J. Kim and B. D. Russell, "High Impedance Fault Detection using an Adaptive Element Model," IEEE Proceedings - Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Volume 140, Issue 2, pp. 153-159, March 1993.
 
C. J. Kim and B. D. Russell, "A Learning Method for Use in Intelligent Computer Relays for High Impedance Faults", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 6, no.1, pp. 109-115, January 1991.
 
C. J. Kim, B. D. Russell, and Karan Watson, "Parameter-Based Process for Selecting High Impedance Fault Detection Techniques Using Decision Making Under Incomplete Knowledge," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 5, no. 3, 1314-1320, July 1990.
 
C. J. Kim and B. D. Russell, "Classification of Faults and Switching Events by Inductive Reasoning and Expert System Methodology," IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, vol. 4, no.3, July 1989. p. 1631
 
B. D. Russell, R. P. Chinchali, and C. J. Kim, "Behavior of Low Frequency Spectra During Arcing Fault and Switching Events," IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, vol. 3, no. 4. October 1988. p. 1485-
C. J. Kim and B. D. Russell, "Harmonic Behavior during Arcing Faults on Power Distribution Feeders," Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 14, 1988. p. 219 -

 

B.Air Traffic Flow Assessment and Modeling

Daniel Akinbodunse, Obinna Obah, and Charles Kim, "Operational Evaluation of Traffic Management Advisor using Statistical Performance Metrics and Simulation Approach," Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Vol 14 (2) 311-327, 2006.
 
Charles Kim, Daniel Akinbodunse, Khalid Abubaker, and Chimaobi Mbanaso, "Performance Evaluation of TMA in Arrival Traffic at IAH," Proc. of the 50th Annual Meeting of Air Traffic Controllers Association, August 11, 2005. pp.85-92.
 
Charles Kim, Khalid Abubaker, and Obinna Obah, "Cellular Automata Modeling of En Route and Arrival Self-Spacing for Autonomous Aircraft," Proc. of the 50th Annual Meeting of Air Traffic Controllers Association, August 11, 2005. pp.127-134.
 
Charles Kim, Daniel Akinbodunse, Chibuike Nwakamma, "Modeling Arrival Traffic using Arena", Proc. of 18th International Conference of Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Nov. 9-11, 2005. pp. 9-14. Arena Animation View.

C. Intelligent Systems and Decision Making

Charles J. Kim and Peter Bofah, "An Evaluation Framework for Power Electronic Device Models Using Decision Making Under Uncertainties," 51st National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, October 10 - 12, 2000, Dayton, Ohio.
C. J. Kim, "A Practical Framework for Managing Uncertainties in Power Device Model Evaluation," 9th IEEE workshop on Computers in Power Electronics, July 16 -18, Virginia Tech, 2000.
 
C. J. Kim, "An Algorithmic Approach for Fuzzy Inference," IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol.5, no.4, pp.585-598, Nov 1997
 

D. Networks and Topological Analysis

Obinna Obah and Charles Kim, "Fast Static Contingency Screening based on Reactive Loss Compensation Index," accepted for 2008 IEEE PES General Meeting, 20 - 24 July, 2008. Pittsburgh, PA.
 
Charles Kim and Obinna Obah, "Vulnerability Assessment of Power Grid Using Graph Topological Indices", International Journal of Emerging Ekectric Power Systems, vol.8, Issue 6, 2007. article 4. http://www.bepress.com/ijeeps/vol8/iss6/art4
 
Charles J. Kim and Jamshid Goshtasbi, "Internet-Based Global Decision Making Architecture", Proceedings of the ICSA 14th International Conference on Computers in Industry and Engineering, November 27-29, 2001, pp. 130-133, Las Vegas, NV
 
Charles J. Kim and Mohamed F. Chouikha, "Attenuation Characteristics of High Rate Home-Networking PLC Signals," ; IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Vol.17, No.4, pp.945-950, October 2002.
Charles Kim, "Power System Stability in Small World Perspective", presented in the CRIS2006: Third Conference on Critical Infrastructure, Alexandria, VA, September 25-27, 2006. Presentation File in PPS

E. Others Areas

C. J. Kim, H. J. Lee, J. H. Shin, "Analysis of the Leakage Impulse Current in Faulty Insulators for Detection of Incipient Failures," Journal of Electrical Engineering and Information Science, vol. 49, no.8, August 2000.
 
Charles Kim, "Assessment Experience in Learning Outcomes and the Student Criterion", presented in the Best Assessment Processes VIII, February 27-28, 2006, Terre Huate, IN (at Rose-Hulman Institute)
 
Charles Kim et al, "Mobile Studio Lab Classroom for Minority Students at Howard University," The 2006 HP Technology for Teaching Worldwide Higher Education Conference, Feb 2-3, 2006. Monterey, CA.
 
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