NYU-Poly is the only school in NYC Metropolitan area that offers a complete program in electrical power systems. Courses and research are conducted in these main categories:

1. Generation / Transmission / Distribution / Machines
2. Drives / Power Electronics / Electromagnetic Propulsion & Design
3. Distributed Generation / Smart Grid

Faculty associated with Power Group are:

1. Dariusz Czarkowski (Power Electronics and Systems)
2. Francisco de Leon (Power Systems and Machines)
3. Zivan Zabar (Power Systems and Drives)
4. Leo Birenbaum (emeritus)

Research support for the Power Lab @ NYU-Poly has come from DoE, DoT, NSF, Pentagon, EBASCO, NYSERDA, Con Edison, and National Grid.

The Salient features of Electric Power Group are:

Currently Advising

• 2 Post Doctoral fellows
• 15 Ph.D. students
• 20 M.Sc. students
• 15 Senior projects

Resent Research

• Universal Controller for Interconnection of Distributed Generators (DG) with the Utility Lines
• Development of Toroidal Distribution Transformers (DOE) (1. Impulse; 2. Thermal; 3. Leakage)
• Analysis of Secondary Networks having DG. (Con Edison) (1. Maximum amount of DG; 2. Voltage control)
• Development and Modeling of a Universal Power Converter for Fuel Cell Applications in Aircraft Power Systems
• 3G System of the Future (1. Smart Grid; 2. Very Large Systems)
• Root cause Analysis of Transformer Explosions installed in Vaults
• Conservation of Voltage Reduction
• Cable Thermal Rating

Courses

• 4 Undergraduate Courses
• 15 Graduate Courses
• 2 Graduate Certificates