Associate ProfessorAlan Wood

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Associate Professor
    Electrical and Computer Engineering

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

Principles of Electrical Systems, Electrical Power Systems, Power electronics

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Estimation of Fault Location on 11kV Distribution Feeders
    1 Aug 2023 - 20 Aug 2023
    Adi Rajah, Farzeen Faiz
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Principles of Electrical Systems
    20 Feb 2023
    ENEL280
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Load Flow Analysis and Voltage Stability Issues with 90% or More Renewable Energy in the New Zealand Grid
    1 Nov 2016
    Acharya, Parash
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    High Fidelity Voltage Dependent Load Flow in Distributed Networks
    1 Sep 2016 - 1 Feb 2021
    McGill, Euan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Impacts of Emerging Technologies on Consumer Load Profiles & Power Flows
    1 Jul 2015 - 4 Feb 2021
    Campbell, Michael
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Advancing Distribution Grid Resilience by Optimising Sensor Topology
    1 Jan 2015 - 15 Mar 2019
    Morris, K
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Energy Efficient Architecture and Communication Technique of Home Area Network in Smart Grid Communication
    1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2016
    Saha, H
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Determining the Distribution of Power Dissipation and Conductivity During Joule Heating of Pinus radiata Logs
    1 Jan 2015 - 5 May 2021
    Smart, T
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Studying the transition from fossil fuel to renewable generation in hydro dominant electricity systems
    1 Jan 2015 - 9 Aug 2021
    Schwartfeger, L
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Towards greater energy efficiency: Development of a PhotoVoltaic based Domestic water heater
    1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2016
    Sun, L
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Towards the smart grid: Development of a demand response system for domestic water heaters controller
    1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2016
    Adi Raja, F
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Codebook design for the smart grid
    1 Nov 2014
    Roy, rakhi
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Advanced Grid-Tied Photovoltaic Micro- Inverter
    1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2015
    Hu, Luheng
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Managing variable renewable resources in the NZ electricty system
    1 Jan 2014 - 28 May 2019
    Schipper, J
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Advanced Periodic Control of Grid Converters for Power Quality Improvement
    1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    Nazir, R
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    FIR-capable energy storage for enhanced stability management
    1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2015
    Chen, Patrick
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Quantifying the benefits from the spatial diversification of wind power in New Zealand
    1 Jan 2013 - 1 Feb 2017
    McQueen, Dougal
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Simulating the Impact of Distributed PV Systems in Distribution Networks
    1 Jan 2013
    Lemon, S
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Harmonic State Space modelling of Voltage Source Converters
    1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2012
    Ormrod, J
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Optimisation for Electric Power Transmission planning.
    1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2012
    Malla, K
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Electrostatic control of the elctrospinning process
    1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2014
    Hamid, N
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Harmonic State Space Modelling of a HVdc converter with closed loop control
    1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2014
    Hwang, M
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Vibration-based Energy harvesting for wireless sensors used in Machine Condition Monitoring
    1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2012
    Ou, Q
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Electrospinning - analysis and control of the process.
    1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2013
    Stanger, J
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    1 Jan 2008 - 30 Jun 2012
    ENEL436/635