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Karen Butler-Purry
Professor,
Director of Electric Power & Power Electronics Institute,
Coordinator of the Electric Power & Power Electronics Program,
Assistant Director, Power System Automation Laboratory
Office Number: 323E WERC
Office Phone No.: (979)847-9048
Fax No.: 845-6259

Links: Personal Page
NAPS 2001 (North America Power Symposium)

Education:

-B.S. E.E. Southern Univeristy at Baton Rouge 1985
-M.S. E.E. University of Texas at Austin 1987
-Ph.D. E.E. Howard University 1994

Interest Areas:

-Computer and Intelligent Systems Application to Power Distribution
-Systems, Distribution Automation and Management, Fault Diagnosis,
-Estimation of Remaining Life of Transformers, Intelligent Reconfiguration,
-System Modeling and Simulation for Hybrid Vehicles

Publications:

-K.L. Butler, "Predictive Maintenance of Distribution Systems using Intelligent Systems," Invited Tutorial at Workshop on AI Techniques Applied to Electrical Distribution Systems,Dec. 18, 1996, Kanpur, India.
-H.J. Do Carmo and K.L. Butler, "Computer Transformer Models for Prediction of Aging and Deterioration, Proceedings of 1996 North American Power Symposium, Nov. 1996, Boston, MA., pp. 101-108.
-K.L. Butler, K.M. Stevens, and M. Ehsani, "A Versatile Computer Simulation Tool for Design and Analysis of Electric and Hybrid Drive Trains," Proceedings of 1997 Society of Automotive Engineers Conference, Feb.1997, Detroit, MI.
-K.L. Butler, J. Momoh, L. Dias, and D. Sobaiic, "An Approach to Power Distribution Fault Diagnosis using Neural Net based Supervised Clustering Methodology," International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, March 1997, pp. 51-57.
-K.L. Butler and H. Do Carmo, "Modeling of Transformers for Determination of Aging and Deterioration," Proceedings of the 1996 Rural Electric Power Conference, April 1996, Fort Worth, Texas.
-G. Garcia, N. Stubbs, and K. Butler, "Relative Performance Evaluation of Pattern Recognition Models for Non-Destructive Damage Detection," Proceedings of 1996 SPIE Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, February 26-29, 1996, San Diego, CA.
-K. Butler, "An Expert System Based Framework for Incipient Failure Detection and Predictive Maintenance," Proceedings of 1996 Intelligent System Application to Power Systems Conference, January 1996, pp. 321-326.
-K. Butler, "Intelligent Prediction of Transformer Remaining Life," Invited Presentation to PES Working Group on Intelligent Systems Applications to T & D Problems, 1996 PES Winter Meeting, January 1996.
-N. Stubbs and K. Butler, "A Decision Support System to Predict Casualties in Multi-Hazardous Environments," Proceedings of Natural Hazard Mitigation Grantees Workshop, April, 1995.
-Karen L. Butler. "Neural Networks Application to Power Systems," Invited Tutorial, Presented to Engineers at the National Electric Power Authority, January 1995, Nigeria, Africa.
-Karen L. Butler. "Neural Networks for Distribution System State Estimation," Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Power Systems Operations and Planning, January 1995, Nigeria, Africa.
-J. Momoh, L. Dias, K. L. Butler, and D. Laird. "Selection of Artificial Neural Networks for Distribution System Fault Diagnosis," Proceedings of Intelligent System Application to Power Systems Conference, September 1994, Montpellier, France.
-A.D. Shaw, J.A. Momoh, and K.L. Butler. "A Sensitivity Study using a Clustering Based ANN for Fault Diagnosis," Proceedings of the North American Power Symposium, October 1994.