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Erhard Joeres
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Professor Erhard Joeres retired from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering this spring after more than 30 years on its faculty.
Joeres joined the department faculty in 1970 and served as its department chairman prior to his retirement. He was also affiliated with the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies for more than 20 years and served as its interim director for 18 months just prior to his retirement.
Joeres' research focused on environmental systems modeling, water resource management, and urban hydrology. He has been a leading advocate of "green technology" on campus and has worked with UW-Madison campus planners in the hopes of developing buildings that are more efficient in their use of electricity and disposal of wastewater.
He was also an advocate of faculty collegiality and counts as a significant accomplishment of his chairman's term the creation of a faculty and staff lounge near the department chair's office, where faculty and staff can now sit on comfortable couches and chairs, drink coffee, and have conversations.
In 2000, he received the 1999-2000 Chi Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award for the North Central District. He earned his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
Robert H. Lasseter
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Robert Lasseter has also retired. He grew up in Miami, Florida. He attended North Carolina State University, earning a BS in physics. After two years in the Army air defense he returned to North Carolina for his MS degree. In 1967, he earned his PhD in physics from the University of Pennsylvania. His focus was on the electronic structure of dilute impurities in the noble metals and IV-VI semiconductors. After a two-year postdoctoral appointment, he joined the General Electric Company in Philadelphia. In 1980, Lasseter and his wife, Lucy, moved to Madison, where he has spent 23 years as a professor.
Lasseter's research focused on the application of power electronics to electrical utilities. His early work included high-voltage direct current transmission systems and static var compensators. He has numerous papers, presentations and several patents on these systems. This work contributed to his election to the grade of IEEE fellow in 1992. His recent work includes distributed generation, control of power systems through FACTS controllers, use of power electronics in distribution systems, harmonic interactions, simulation methods, power electronic circuits and converter controls.
In 1995 Lasseter worked with his peers at Cornell, Berkeley and Illinois to create the Power Systems Engineering Research Center, or PSerc. He was also instrumental in the birth of the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions. CERTS focuses on enhancing the reliability of the U.S. electric power system.
For relaxation, Lasseter can be found working with hot glass.
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