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Recent news:

July 2024: David Copp presented at the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting on the role of energy storage in power system control and estimation.

June/July 2024: Our research group contributed to four presentations at the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition and one presentation at the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC).

June 2024: Congratulations to Liliana for completing her honors thesis on modeling and control of a self-stabilizing balancing robot.

June 2024: David Copp recieved the Innovation in Teaching Early Career Faculty Award from UCI's Samueli School of Engineering.

May 2024: Congratulations to Athena, Derek, and FUSION and Human-Powered Vehicle engineering project team members for presenting at the UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium.

April 2024: Congratulations to UCI's Human Powered Vehicle team for winning 3rd place in the endurance event at ASME's competition in Idaho.

March 2024: Congratulations to Athena, Isra, and Tara for having their work accepted for publication and presenation at the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. In total, our group members co-authored 4 accepted papers.

January 2024: Our paper Robust Hybrid Wide-Area Damping Control for Power Systems with Communication Errors was accepted for publication and presentation at the 2024 American Control Conference.

October 2023: We presented our paper Exploring the Impact of a Supportive Scholarship Program on Engineering Transfer Students’ Learning Strategies at the 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.

September 2023: Our paper Performance and dynamics of California offshore wind alongside Western U.S. onshore wind and solar power was published in the journal Renewable Energy Focus.

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Brief Biography:

David Copp is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Arizona and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After his Ph.D., he worked on grid integration, analysis and control of grid-scale energy storage systems in a postdoctoral position and then as a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics and biomedicine.

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