NPS vita for Giovanna Oriti

Giovanna Oriti: Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: 831-656-2637
Email: goriti (at) nps.edu
Web: faculty.nps.edu/oriti/

EDUCATION:: PhD - University of Catania - Italy, 1997
Electrical Engineering
MS - University of Catania - Italy, 1993
Electrical Engineering. Graduated with honors - first in class - 5 year degree

NPS EXPERIENCE:

Contributing to the new EE Energy curriculum and developing a new course covering electrical energy generation, distribution and transmission.
Demonstrating power converter technologies for energy management systems.
Developing distance learning hardware laboratories which are operated remotely.
Electric ship power system modeling and analysis including hybrid propulsion systems for fuel consumption reduction.
Railgun pulsed power supply stress analysis, failure mode and effect analysis. High voltage capacitor charger characterization.
Developed hardware and software laboratories for the courses EC4150 "Advanced Solid State Power Conversion", EC3150 "Solid State Power Conversion" and TS3000 "Electrical Power Engineering".

OTHER EXPERIENCE: (View an extended list)

Power Engineering Consultant - 2000 to 2008
United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford CT - Associate Research Engineer 1998 to 1999
Wisconsin Electric Machines & Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC)University of Wisconsin, Madison - Research Intern 1996 to 1998
ERASMUS Project European Community's exchange program for undergraduate students 1992

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AWARDS:

2012 NPS ECE Service Award for contributions to the EE Energy curriculum development.
2002 IEEE IAS Outstanding Young Member Award.
1993 Laurea's grant ($650 US) from the Professional Association of Engineers of Catania for the valedictorian of the class.
1993 Laurea's grant ($1300 US) from the Catania Association of Industries for Research for the research work reported in the thesis which was accomplished in collaboration with an industry sponsor.

BOARDS/MEMBERSHIPS:

IEEE Senior Member. Member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) and of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS).
Technical program co-chair for the IEEE ECCE 2013
Chair of the IEEE IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department (IPCSD)in 2010-2011
Served as Chair ('06-'07), Vice-Chair ('04-'05), Secretary ('02-'03) of the IAS Industrial Power Converter Committee.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: (View an extended list)

[1] A. L. Julian, G. Oriti "A Novel Clamp Circuit for a Regenerative Rectifier using AC/AC Matrix Converter Theory", IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, pp. 68-74, Vol. 41, No.1, Jan/Feb 2005.
[2] G. Oriti, R.M. Cuzner, "Ship Propulsion AC/DC Conversion System Modeling and Design" Proceedings of the IEEE IAS Annual Meeting 2006, Tampa, FL October 8-12, 2006.
[3] R.M. Cuzner, D.J. Nowak, A. Bendre, G. Oriti, A.L. Julian, "Mitigating Circulating Common-Mode Currents Between Parallel Soft-Switched Drive Systems, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, pp. 1284-1294, Vol. 43, No.5, Sep/Oct 2007.
[4] A. L. Julian, G. Oriti, A Comparison of Redundant Inverter Topologies to Improve Voltage Source Inverter Reliability", IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, pp. 1371-1378, Vol. 43, No.5, Sep/Oct 2007.
[5] G. Oriti, A. L. Julian, "Three Phase VSI with FPGA Based Multisampled Space Vector Modulation", IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 47, No.4, Jul/Aug 2011.

KEYWORDS/TECHNOLOGIES:

Keywords: Power Electronics, Drives, EMI, Pulsed Power Technology, Modeling, Control, reliability, stability, electric ship systems