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Thomas H. Ortmeyer

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Professor
146 CAMP
Clarkson University
PO Box 5720
Potsdam, NY 13699-5720

Phone: 315-268-4035
FAX: 315-268-7600
E-mail: ortmeyer@clarkson.edu
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Educational Background
Ph.D., Iowa State University (1980)
M.S., Iowa State University (1977)
B.Sc., Iowa State University (1972)

Teaching Interests
Dr. Ortmeyer teaches courses in the area of power systems and equipment. He also teaches the introductory laboratory courses. He has also been involved with a series of project based honors courses on a variety of energy related topics.

Research Interests
Dr. Ortmeyer has research interests in power systems. Specific areas of research include power quality, power distribution, power electronics, and power system protection. He is currently involved in research into applications of electric power in the transportation sector.

Recent Publications
T. Ortmeyer. “Transients and Harmonics,” Chapter 3 in Time Varying Waveform Distortions in Power Systems, Paulo Ribeiro, ed., John Wiley and Sons, 2009.

T. Ortmeyer, W. Xu, and Y. Baghzouz. “Time-varying and probabilistic considerations: setting limits,” Ch. 10 in Time Varying Waveform Distortions in Power Systems, Paulo Ribeiro, ed., John Wiley and Sons, 2009.

Bart Diaz, Thomas H. Ortmeyer, Bruce Pilvelait, Mike Izenson, Weibo Chen, Nathan Spivey. “A Novel High Temperature Superconducting Fault Current Limiter for Shipboard Power Systems.” IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium 2009. Paper #978-1-4244-3439-8/09, Baltimore, MD, April, 2009.

Babak Enayati, Alireza K. Ziarani and Thomas H. Ortmeyer, “An Intelligent Power Flow Controller for Autonomous Operation of Islanded Micro-grids,” IECON 2008, pp. 3033-3038, Orlando, FL, November 13, 2008