Muhammad Ali Ahsan completes his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, graduating with honors. Here's a photo of Ali and Dr. Docimo after the ceremony. Congrats Ali!

Logan Klepac completes his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Logan graduates at the top of the class and is honored for this at the WCOE Honors Convocation. Here's a photo of Logan and Dr. Docimo after the ceremony. Congrats Logan!

The lab's latest article, "A Joint Analysis and Estimation Effort for Cell-to-Cell Variations in Lithium-Ion Battery Packs," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

Preston Abadie presents a lab paper, "An Investigation into the Viability of Cell-Level Temperature Control in Lithium-Ion Battery Packs," at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference, published in the ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control. Preston's paper won the Energy Systems Technical Committee (ESTC) Best Paper Award for MECC 2024. Here's a link to Preston's video covering the work.

Asmaou Sougri-Nooma Ouedraogo presents a lab paper, "Model Predictive Control for Active Cooling of Photovoltaic Panels," at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference.

Tania Jahan presents a lab paper, "A Study on Control Co-Design for Optimizing Microgrid Sustainability," at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference.

Asmaou Sougri-Nooma Ouedraogo gives a talk, "Modeling and Predictive Control to Enable Improved Energy Management of Renewable Energy Systems," for the TTU Dynamic Systems & Control Symposium (DSCS).

Preston Abadie gives a talk, "Analysis, Estimation, and Control of Cell-to-Cell Variations in Lithium-Ion Battery Packs," for the TTU Dynamic Systems & Control Symposium (DSCS).

Leeroy Makusha joins the DOC Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Leeroy!

Logan Klepec joins the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Logan! 

Dr. Docimo is awarded an NSF grant to study sustainability of computing systems using dynamic system optimization. The DOC Lab website, a brief TTU article, and the NSF award page provide more information.

Andrew Smith and Jessica Holliday join the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researchers. Welcome Andrew and Jessica!

Dr. Docimo presents a lab paper, "Online Temperature and Irradiation Estimation for Large-Scale Solar Farms with Consideration of Computational Tractability," at the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications.

Mehmet Ozkan successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats Mehmet!

Ali Ahsan presents his work at the Texas Tech University Undergraduate Research Conference, receiving the third place presenter award in the Energy & Environment Impact category.

Roshini Yuvarajan presents her work at the Texas Tech University Undergraduate Research Conference.

Muhammad Ali Ahsan joins the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Ali! 

Preston Abadie presents a lab paper, "A Framework for Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Balancing Including Cell Parameter Heterogeneity," at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference. Preston's paper is nominated as a finalist for the MECC 2022 Best Student Paper Award.

Jihoon Moon presents a lab paper, "Reduction of Lithium-Ion Battery Models with Degradation Dynamics: A Comparison of Techniques," at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference.

Mehmet Ozkan joins the DOC Lab as a Ph.D. student, with his primary advisor being Dr. Yao Ma. Welcome Mehmet!

Dr. Docimo presents a lab paper, "A Design Framework with Embedded Hierarchical Control Architecture Optimization," at the American Control Conference.

The lab's latest article, "Estimation and Balancing of Multi-State Differences Between Lithium-Ion Cells Within a Battery Pack," is published in the Journal of Energy Storage.

Roshini Yuvarajan joins the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Roshini! 

Gian Cardiello and Mosopeoluwa Alofe complete their B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Congrats Gian and Mosopeoluwa!

Jihoon Moon successfully defends his M.S. thesis. Congrats Jihoon!

Tania Rifat Jahan joins the DOC Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Tania!

Mosopeoluwa Alofe joins the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Mosopeoluwa!

The lab's latest article, "Plant and Controller Optimization for Power and Energy Systems With Model Predictive Control," is published in the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control.

Gian Cardiello joins the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Gian!

Asmaou Sougri-Nooma Ouedraogo and Preston Abadie join the DOC Lab as Ph.D. students. Welcome Asmaou and Preston!

Jihoon Moon joins the DOC Lab as a M.S. student. Welcome Jihoon!

The lab's latest article, "A Novel Framework for Simultaneous Topology and Sizing Optimization of Complex, Multi-Domain Systems-of-Systems," is published in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

Dr. Docimo starts the Design Optimization and Control Lab at Texas Tech University.