IEEE Croatia Section
Power and Energy Society Chapter
IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter Award (OCA)
Prepared by Igor Kuzle
IEEE Croatia Section PES Chapter Chair
March, 2015, Zagreb, Croatia
IEEE Croatia Section - PES OCA Submission, 2014
1)
Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................... 1
1.a Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................... 1
1.b Region Representative Nomination ............................................................................................. 3
2)
Activities .......................................................................................................................................... 4
2.a - Technical Activities ...................................................................................................................... 4
2.b - Educational Activities .................................................................................................................. 6
2.c - PES/Engineering Profession Promotion....................................................................................... 8
2.d - Student Activities ........................................................................................................................ 9
2.e - Affinity Groups (WIE, GOLD, etc.) ............................................................................................. 12
2.f - PES Conferences......................................................................................................................... 13
3)
Members ....................................................................................................................................... 17
3.a - Member Awards / Recognition / Nominations ......................................................................... 17
3.b - Member Advancement ............................................................................................................. 18
3.c - Membership Growth / Retention .............................................................................................. 18
4)
Chapter Operations ....................................................................................................................... 20
4.a - Chapter Web Page ..................................................................................................................... 20
4.b - PES Only (non-joint) Chapter .................................................................................................... 21
5)
Other Activities .............................................................................................................................. 21
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1)
Executive Summary
1.a Executive Summary
The PES Chapter of the IEEE Croatia Section was founded in 1998. The Chapter has grown in number
of members and in number of activities. The year 2014 can be characterized as a successful year.
The overview of activities includes 16 technical lectures that were organized in different cities in
Croatia, including 3 DLP lectures. Furthermore Srete Nikolovski got Chapter Outstanding Engineer
Award for year 2014. Additionally PES Chapter Croatia was highly involved in organization of the IEEE
Region 8 flagship conference IEEE Energycon 2014 that was held in Dubrovnik for 13-16 May 2014
(http://www.energycon2014.org/). Igor Kuzle was the general chair of the Conference, Tomislav
Capuder was track chair and Ninoslav Holjevac was conference secretary. The second conference
Croatian PES Chapter was included in the organization was PAC World 2014 conference that was held
in Zagreb fro 23-26 June 2014 (http://conference.pacw.org/). Igor Kuzle was organizing committee
chair and Ninoslav Holjevac was member of that committee. As already mentioned this year 3
distinguished lecturers held their speeches:
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Damir Novosel and Qing-Chang Zhong (DL of PELS) gave lectures in Zagreb. These lectures
were the joint activity together with the colleagues from the IEEE PES Chapter from Austria
and IEEE IE13/IA34/PEL35 Joint Chapter of Serbia and Montenegro;
Mladen Kezunovic gave the DLP lecture in Split (this was done in collaboration with
colleagues from PES Chapters from Italy and Slovenia).
Compared to the previous years there is an increment in number of members, number of technical
activities and size of PES Student Branch. Comparison to previous year (2013) can be seen in table
below:
Table 1 IEEE Croatia section PES Chapter overview of activities and plans
2013
2014
Plan for 2015
Number of technical activities
8
16
Increase the number of activities
DLP lectures
2
3
Organize additional DLP lectures
Member number
170
191
Conferences PES members organized
1
2
Technical visits
2
2
PES Student Branch members increase
+37
+34
Attract new members
Apply for the organization of at least one
conference
Organize additional technical visits and
educational excursion for PES members and
students
Maintain the high increase rate
The Chapter has intention to even further increase the number activities and expand the influence
and number of members in coming years.
Several technical student excursions were organized, among others the visits to Hydro Power Plants
Zakucac and Kraljevac and Wind Power Plant Vostane. The Student Branch members participated in
both organization and execution of mentioned technical excursions. Additionally PES Student Branch
organized several different activities and participated in organization of a curriculum course on
University of Zagreb (LabVIEW course).
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The Croatia chapter of the IEEE PES has been actively promoting power and energy to students, and
junior engineers (GOLD) as part of our activities. These activities include arranging tours of power
engineering companies for undergraduate students, advocating new power engineering courses at
local universities and promoting closer relationships between the Croatia chapter of the PES and the
student chapter.
All meetings were well attended with IEEE members and, perhaps, our prospective future members.
The Croatia PES Chapter has worked closely together with other IEEE Section chapters for mutual
benefits. This cooperation has resulted in high quality technical, educational, social and professional
programs. Above all the Croatian PES Chapter maintains engagement to promote IEEE values in
several Universities in Croatia, mainly Universities of Zagreb, Osijek, Rijeka and Split.
The Chapter officers are:
Table 2 IEEE Croatia section PES Chapter officers
Name
Chair (Program
Year)
Igor Kuzle
Member No.
40096420
40096420
90407956
92529003
E-mail
igor.kuzle@fer.hr
igor.kuzle@fer.hr
tomislav.capuder@fer.hr
ninoslav.holjevac@fer.hr
Start Date
1.1.2012
1.1.2012
1.1.2012.
1.10.2013.
Chair (present)
Vice Chair
Treasurer / Secretary
Igor Kuzle
Tomislav Capuder
Ninoslav Holjevac
The presently active officers and all other PES volunteers involved will pursue in future years to
maintain the positive trend. New DLP lectures will be organized along with dozen of other technical
activities. There are plans already in creation to organize the educational visits for students and other
interested colleagues. The visits will include a trip to transformer factory Končar, visit to the power
substation of 400 kV voltage level and hopefully visit to the newest Croatia hydro power plant Lesce.
As always the membership will be promoted among students and new members will be encouraged
to join.
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1.b Region Representative Nomination
IEEE Croatia Section, POWER AND ENERGY SOCIETY
Jovica V Milanovic
The University of Manchester
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
milanovic@manchester.ac.uk
1 April 2015
Mr. Ed C. Carlsen,
Chairman, OCA Selection Committee.
Georgia Power Co, Bin 20020,
241 Ralph McGill Blvd.NE
Atlanta, GE 30308-3374
Email: eccarlse@southernco.com;
Nomination of Croatia PES Chapter for Outstanding Chapter Award (2014)
Dear Mr. Carlsen,
This letter follows up our PES Chapter Representative’s nomination of the Croatia Chapter for the
2014 Outstanding Chapter Award. The IEEE Croatia Section PES Chapter was nominated in a letter
from Prof Igor Kuzle, dated 31 March, 2015. Enclosed is a report reviewing the Chapter’s
performance in achieving the various selection criteria.
I believe you will find that Croatia Chapter delivered a very strong program to our members as part of
our ongoing work. The performance is excellent across the board including 16 technical lectures, 3
DLP lectures, growth in member numbers, active Student Branch and commitment to achieve even
better results in coming year. Significant plans for upcoming year include expanding PES Chapter
membership even further, encouragement and support of new active student branches and
chapters, organization of another DLP Lecture and applications for future IEEE conferences.
You may contact me by e-mail at milanovic@manchester.ac.uk if you have any questions on this
report.
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2)
Activities
2.a - Technical Activities
Croatian PES Chapter has conducted technical meetings on a variety of topics including nuclear
energy technology, power system reliability and control, power system operation problems,
renewable energy sources, smart grids, energy storage and more. The chapter has intention to
increase the number of activities in following year.
The list of all technical activities is given below:
Table 3 Technical activities
No.
1
2 - DLP
Description / Title
Date
# of
Attendees
Total / PES
Integral Inherently Safe Light Water Reactor (I2SLWR) Concept
Next Generation Smart Grids: Completly Autonomous
Power Systems (CAPS)
February 10,
2014
#28/#11
May 12, 2014
#32/#21
3 - DLP
Improvements With Wide Area Monitoring, Protection
And Control
May 12, 2014
#32/#21
4 - DLP
Flexible Load: Why, When and How
May 13, 2014
#29/#15
5
Power Management in Renewable Energy Microgrids
with Hybrid Storage: Optimal Schedule and Operation
September 10,
2014
#50/#20
6
Control and Interconnection Issues of AC and DC
microgrids
September 10,
2014
#50/#20
Optimal Distributed Generation Placement in Power
Distribution Networks
Integration of Wind Power Plant in the Transmission
Network
From Smart Buildings to Smart Grids - Integration
Concepts to Smart Cities
Distributed Energy Storage Systems In Transmission
Network
Role of High-Temperature Reactors in Sustainable
Development and Synergy with Renewable Energy
Sources
Statistical and Dynamical Properties of Electricity
Generation from a Large System of Wind Plants – A
Case Study
Dinamičke karakteristike hidroagregata (The dynamic
characteristics of hydro units) – educational lecture
September 10,
2014
September 10,
2014
September 10,
2014
December 11,
2014
March 17,
2014
63
14 - EA
Tržište i trgovanje električnom energijom i iskustva iz
HEP trgovine (Electricity trade and market, HEP trade
Ltd. experiences) – educational lecture
November 6,
2014
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15 GOLD
Condition Monitoring And Maintenance Of Wind Power
Plants
June 10, 2014
#13/#9
16 - PP
Research Challenges In Microgrid Technologies
October 27,
2014
#32/#15
7
8
9
10
11
12
13 - EA
4
#50/#20
#50/#20
#50/#20
#34/#15
December 16,
2014
#31/#7
December 16,
2014
#25/#10
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Figure 1 A photo from first technical lecture in year 2014 presented by Bojan Petrovic on Faculty of Electrical Engineering
and Computing
Figure 2 A photo from last technical lecture in year 2014 presented by Dubravko Sabolić on Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Computing
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2.b - Educational Activities
Since significant number of Croatia PES Chapter is from academia there is student branch and very
rich cooperation with joint meetings related to various topics.
The full day technical excursion for students was organized with the aim to make them more familiar
with one of the newest wind power plants in Croatia. Also, the students were given a detailed tour
through all the segments of biggest Croatia hydropower plant Zakučac that was undergoing a yearly
maintenance which allowed the inspection of generator and turbine parts. Certain topics related to
the dynamic characteristics of power system elements and electricity wholesale market were
presented as educational lectures mainly aimed for students enrolled in subjects connected with
power and energy field. First hand experience from the plant operators at the control room and
inside the hydropower plant was shared in an educational lecture. Furthermore the damn site was
visited and a little bit more upstream one of the oldest hydropower plants Kraljevac was also visited.
Figure 3 PES Members with students (majority are PES student memebers) at wind power plant Voštane site
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Figure 4 Inspection of generator unit at hydro power plant Zakučac
Figure 5 Hydropower plant Kraljevac
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The list of educational activities is given below:
No
Description / Title
Full day educational excursion to Wind Power Plant "Voštane" and
Hydro Power Plant "Zakučac" and “Kraljevica” that included several
practical lectures and on site detailed exploration of all the elements
Dinamičke karakteristike hidroagregata (The dynamic characteristics
of hydro units) – educational lecture
Tržište i trgovanje električnom energijom i iskustva iz HEP trgovine
(Electricity trade and market, HEP trade Ltd. experiences) –
educational lecture
Date
# of
Attendees
June 16,
2014
45
March 17,
2014
63
November
6, 2014
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Figure 6 Educational lecture in year 2014 presented by Miljenko Brezovec on Faculty of Electrical Engineering
and Computing titled Dinamičke karakteristike hidroagregata (The dynamic characteristics of hydro units)
During 2015 we plan to organize technical visit of Croatian and Bosnian PES students to NPP Krsko.
2.c - PES/Engineering Profession Promotion
The lecture given by Tomislav Dragičević, PhD included both the personal perspective of advantages
of pursuing the doctoral degree in engineering and concrete opportunities a field of Microgrid
technologies offers. The lecture was aimed to strengthen the bond between the IEEE members in
Aalborg University, Denmark and PES members in Croatia. The cooperation is already strong and
work is in progress on international projects.
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Additionally activities that were promoting IEEE values and encouraging new members to join were
held.
No.
Description / Title
Date
# of
Attendees
Total /
PES
1
Research Challenges In Microgrid Technologies
October 27,
2014
#32/#15
2
The second IEEE membership expansion action
12\12
16 new
memebers
enrolled
The Croatian PES Chapter has a clear vision of engineering standards that are being promoted. All the
project dissemination presentations of the projects PES members are working on are open to public
and proper promotion is given to even further attract people and raise awareness of the engineering
problems connected with power and energy topics. The positive work will be continued throughout
the next year.
Figure 7 IEEE membership action (Student Branch PES members)
2.d - Student Activities
The majority of students that participate in the Student Branch activities on the University of Zagreb
come from power engineering background. In year 2014 due to promotion of IEEE Values 30 new
members enrolled.
All the students have free admission for most of the activities within Chapter. They are a significant
part of all Chapter activities, including conference organization and organization of technical
activities. PES student Chapter members were of significant value in organization of IEEE Energycon
2014 conference and were assisting in communication with speakers and other participants. Majority
of students in IEEE Croatia branch are perspective future members. We supported formation of a
second IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter (at the Osijek University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer).
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Meetings of PES Student Branch Zagreb (http://www.ieee.hr/ieee/chapter/pes) were held every
week during the academic year. Members of the PES Zagreb were participating actively in
organization of the LabVIEW course, software package of company National Instruments. LabVIEW
course started on 10th March and was performing during four weeks on Mondays and Thursdays. All
students who successfully passed the exam have been awarded with so-called CLAD certificate.
These training and accreditation courses are usually attended by industry employees with
corresponding course fees but our PES Chapter ensured they are held for free for our graduate
students. Furthermore, PES chapter organized study visit to the nuclear power plant Krško in Slovenia
on the 23th May 2014. The operation of the nuclear power plant was demonstrated to students,
theoretical knowledge was given by professor Grgic and practical knowledge was given by the worker
of the nuclear power plant. In cooperation with the Student Branch held two actions of membership
enlargement (about 30 new members joined as stated before). Eight members of PES participated in
the 4th congress of student branches Croatian section (CroSBC - Croatian Student Branch Congress)
international organization IEEE, which was held at the Rijeka Faculty of Engineering In December our
PES chapter participated in the Christmas charity (selling cakes and so collected donations for a
family of a single mother of twelve children).
Table 4 List of of PES Student Branch activities
Date
Description / Title
3/10/2014-4/7/2014
LabVIEW course
3/18/2014-5/5/2014
English course
5/23/2014
Study visit to the Nuclear Power Plant Krško
3/6/2014 -3/7/2014
The first IEEE membership action
11/26/2014
IEEE dinner
10/4/2014 - 10/5/2014
CroSBC
12\9/2014
Creative workshop
11/29/2014
Team Building - mountain
16/12/2014-19/12/2014
Christmas charity
10/30/2014
STEP event "Public Speech"
Attendees
Total / PES
Type (Tech., Admin. Social,
other)
60/20
40/40
28/28
10\10
149/20
8\8
6\6
25/25
80/13
40/6
Technical
Technical
Technical
Administrative
Social
Social / Technical
Social
Social
Social
Technical
In 2015 we will support student members in Rijeka to reactivate Student Branch Rijeka PES chapter.
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Figure 8 The first IEEE Membership action
Figure 9 Creative workshop (Zagreb Student Branch PES members)
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Figure 10 Christmas charity action of the PES Student branch
2.e - Affinity Groups (WIE, GOLD, etc.)
We organized technical lecture for the GOLD members (PhD students). The presentation given by
Prof. Maciel Barbosa from INESC PORTO (Dean of Faculty) consisted of two parts. In first part Prof.
Barbosa gave an inside about the advantages of engineering carrier/doctoral study that offers
opportunities for students exchange and broadening of perspectives. In second part he has share his
research and experience connected with wind power plants maintenance which is very developed
field of study in University of Porto.
This is the field the PES Chapter of the Croatia section can make biggest improvements. Connect
more with the Young Professional activities and bear in mind importance of WIE activities and relate
to them and organize new activities in cooperation.
During the 2015 we plan to send a few IEEE PES Young Professionals on 3 months specialization to
China, upon return they will present research results to other Young Professionals at the IEEE Elevate
event.
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Figure 11 Lecture for the young professional in year 2014 presented by Maciel Barbosa on Faculty of
Electrical Engineering and Computing titled Wind Power Plants Maintenance
2.f - PES Conferences
PES Chapter Croatia was highly involved in organization of the IEEE Region 8 flagship conference IEEE
Energycon 2014 that was held in Dubrovnik for 13-16 May 2014 (http://www.energycon2014.org/).
Igor Kuzle was the general chair of the Conference, Tomislav Capuder was track chair and Ninoslav
Holjevac was conference secretary.
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Figure 12 IEEE ENERGYCON 2014 – organizing commitee (Igor Kuzle, Marko Delimar, Željko Tomšić) with IEEE
Region 8 Director and PES member Costas Stasopoulos
Figure 13 IEEE ENERGYCON 2014 successful organization plaque
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Figure 14 ENERGYCON 2014 Conference website
The second conference Croatian PES Chapter was included in the organization was PAC World 2014
conference that was held in Zagreb fro 23-26 June 2014 (http://conference.pacw.org/). Igor Kuzle
was organizing committee chair and Ninoslav Holjevac was member of that committee.
In 2015 we are included in organization of the International Conference on Power System Transients
(IPST 2015) http://ipst2015.com/.
Also, in 2015 we will apply for the organization of the IEEE PES Conference on Innovative SMART
GRID Technologies (ISGT 2016 or ISGT 2017 – Europe).
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Figure 15 PACWORLD 2014 Conference website
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3)
Members
3.a - Member Awards / Recognition / Nominations
Srete Nikolovski got Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award for year 2014.
A member of Croatia Section PES Chapter, Dr. Marko Delimar has been re-elected for IEEE Director
and Secretary for 2014. Igor Kuzle is Chapter Representative for Region 8 - Central Europe &
Scandinavia.
IEEE Croatia Section PES Chapter applied for High Performance Chapter Award for 2014 year.
Membership recognition activities included travel to Nuclear power plant Krško which was only for
PES members.
In following year nice tradition of awarding the Outstanding engineer award will continue.
Additionally PES members will continue to participate in the global work and organization of both
PES and IEEE generally.
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Figure 16 IEEE Student Branch PES Members in Nucler power plant Krško
3.b - Member Advancement
Igor Kuzle has been elected for IEEE Region 8 Vice Chair for Technical Activities for 2015.
The Croatian PES Chapter has a clearly defined program to retain all the student members and
promote them to Member status. Additionally more experienced engineers in the field are
encouraged to fulfill the applications for life members.
List of graduating students elevating to Member grade is given below:
Table 5 List of graduating students elevating to Member Grade
Name
1
Zora Luburić
92537646
5
Matea Filipović
92537628
9
Neven Vukadinović
2
Anamarija Antonić
92628236
6
Marin Ivanjko
92981779
10
Ivana Vurbić
3
Štefica Vlahović
92537650
7
Kristijan Jalšić
93082618
11
Andrea Flis
4
Ivan Martić
92537679
8
Domagoj Horvat
92995740
12
Matija Mance
Member No.
93214542
93214613
93214521
93214569
Name
Member No.
Name
Member No.
3.c - Membership Growth / Retention
On 31 December 2013 Croatia Section PES chapter had 170 members. On 29 December 2014 Croatia
Section PES chapter had 191 members. PES membership increase equals to 21 members or 12%.
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The PES Croatia section has a defined plan to even further increase the number of members. At the
moment number of members in Croatian PES Chapter comes mainly from the academia but there is a
significant presence from the industry. Student Branch held two actions of membership enlargement
(about 30 new members joined as stated before).
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4)
Chapter Operations
4.a - Chapter Web Page
The web page is presently used as a section's defined sub section and is kept up to date with the
information on programmed activities and archive with all the activities.
Figure 17 PES Chapter web page http://www.ieee.hr/ieeesection/odjeli_chapteri/pe31
On the page there can be found in timeline fashion information on all of the held lectures.
Additionally in the repository to the right all the material from the lecture is available alongside the
information about Outstanding Engineer Award of PES Chapter of the Croatia Section.
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Figure 18 Available archive of all the held lectures and repository with the presentation material
4.b - PES Only (non-joint) Chapter
PES Only Chapter in Croatia is a part of IEEE Croatia Section.
5)
Other Activities
All listed activities come under previously specified structure and there were no further activities.
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