Enrique Espina is the first DIE's engineer to obtain a double doctorate between the Universities of Waterloo (Canada) and De Chile in times of pandemic. He entered the program in 2017 to graduate in late September 2021.
With congratulations, the examining committee recognized the DIE's engineer and professor at the University of Santiago de Chile, Enrique Espina, as the first student to obtain the double degree of Doctor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Chile and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo with their research entitled “Distributed Secondary Control of Hybrid ac/dc-Microgrids”.
With a review committee made up of 10 academics belonging to the House of Andrés Bello; Waterloo and an external academic from the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, an online thesis defence was carried out that validated the degree in the two universities that trained this new and outstanding doctor.
Dr Claudio Burgos-Mellado's thesis titled 'Control Strategies for Improving Power Quality and PLL Stability Evaluation in Microgrids' has taken the best PhD thesis award in the category of Exact Science from the Chilean Academy of Sciences. The thesis focuses on non-conventional renewable energy sources as a replacement for fossil fuels and addresses the regulation of imbalance and stability of power converters connected to weak grids.
On December 18 and 19 2018, our colleague Dr.(c) Enrique Espina participated in the seminar "¿SuperGrid o MicroGrid? Alternativas para la integración de ERNC ", organized by the University of Santiago de Chile.
On March 11, Prof. Josep Guerrero visited the laboratory, in the framework of the project FONDECYT 1170683, "Robust Distributed Predictive Control Strategies for the Coordination of Hybrid AC and DC Microgrids".
Prof. Guerrero, leader in the control of microgrids and more than 100 papers published every year, has been working since 2011 at the University of Aalborg as head of the microgrids group.
Today the renewal of the double degree PhD agreement (Electrical Engineering) between the universities of Chile and Nottingham (United Kingdom) was signed. The renovation is for five years and is open to all academics and students in all areas of research in the electrical engineering departments of both institutions.
Read more: Double-University PhD Degree with University of Nottingham, UK
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