Welcome to the 56th International Universities Power Engineering Conference, hosted by Teesside University. UPEC 2021 continues the long tradition of the UPEC conferences. These conferences host the scientific contributions presented by young researchers and PhD students who, together with experienced researchers and professors, discuss their research lines in the power engineering forum.
The organising committee welcome scholars and practitioners from around the globe to present and discuss the latest research and development ideas in the field of power engineering. Given the major challenges now facing the electrical power industry, and the energy sector in general, this conference provides an ideal opportunity to address some of these challenges. It also provides the opportunity to network and to meet the experts in these areas.
Authors should submit full papers of up to six A4-sized pages, including figures, tables and references, prepared using the IEEE conference paper template. Paper format and editing is verified accurately during review. Before sending your paper, please check correctness of language, notation, measuring units and formats, legibility of figures and tables, and completeness of the indications in the references. The full papers are checked for similarity (the ones with high similarity are rejected without review). After the review, the papers with major revisions requested have to provide a letter of response to explain the changes introduced, and the final acceptance is decided on the basis of the final version and of the appropriateness of the responses.
All accepted papers require the presenting author to register and attend UPEC 2021. Papers accepted and presented in UPEC 2021 are published in the conference proceedings. Conference content is submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other abstracting and indexing databases.
Please note that a maximum of two papers can be presented at the conference by any participant.
English is used for all printed material as well as for presentations and discussions.
Originally founded in 1930 as Constantine College, Teesside University has a proud history of over 90 years of excellence in education. Teesside University’s main campus is in the heart of Middlesbrough, a friendly industrial town in North-East England with all the shops, restaurants, cinemas, pubs, clubs, sports and museums you would expect - and an art gallery and bridge that are a little more surprising.
The town sits on the river Tees, close to the North York Moors national park and the beautiful Cleveland coast. The symbol of Middlesbrough’s industrial heritage is the Tees Transporter Bridge. This 102-year-old steel bridge is the longest of its kind remaining in the world.
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Name | Role |
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Dr Gobind Pillai | Chair |
Dr Maher Al-Greer | Co-chair/Programme Chair |
Dr Gill Lacey | Technical Activities/Publicity Chair |
Neville Winter | Sponsorship and Public Relations Chair |
Dr Imran Bashir | Finance Chair |
Dr Musbahu Muhammad | Publications Chair |
The first recorded UPEC related event was a power systems academic research community meeting held in 1966 in Newcastle, UK. As an outcome of this meeting, the UPEC series formally began the following year, where it was hosted by the University of Glasgow and a first full set of proceedings was also then published. UPEC was originally established as a university-led conference series and has therefore always been hosted at universities both within and outside the UK. The first time UPEC was hosted outside the UK was in 1994 when it was hosted in Galway, Ireland. Since then UPEC has become more internationally established.
UPEC | Year | University | Location | Country |
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55th | 2020 | Politecnico di Torino | Turin | Italy |
54th | 2019 | University Polytechnica of Bucharest | Bucharest | Romania |
53rd | 2018 | Glasgow Caledonian University | Glasgow | Scotland, UK |
52nd | 2017 | TEI of Crete | Crete | Greece |
51st | 2016 | Coimbra Institute of Engineering | Coimbra | Portugal |
50th | 2015 | Staffordshire University | Stoke-on-Trent | England, UK |
49th | 2014 | Technical University of Cluj-Napoca | Cluj-Napoca | Romania |
48th | 2013 | Dublin Institute of Technology | Dublin | Ireland |
47th | 2012 | Brunel University | West London | England, UK |
46th | 2011 | South Westphalia University | Soest | Germany |
45th | 2010 | Cardiff University | Cardiff | Wales, UK |
44th | 2009 | University of Strathclyde | Glasgow | Scotland, UK |
43rd | 2008 | University of Padova | Padova | Italy |
42nd | 2007 | University of Brighton | West Sussex | England, UK |
41st | 2006 | Northumbria University | Newcastle | England, UK |
40th | 2005 | University College Cork | Cork | Ireland |
39th | 2004 | University of West England | Bristol | England, UK |
38th | 2003 | Aristotle University | Thessaloniki | Greece |
37th | 2002 | Staffordshire University | Stafford | England, UK |
36th | 2001 | University of Wales | Swansea | Wales, UK |
35th | 2000 | Queens University Belfast | Belfast | N. Ireland, UK |
34th | 1999 | University of Leicester | Leicester | England, UK |
33rd | 1998 | Napier University | Edinburgh | Scotland, UK |
32nd | 1997 | University of Manchester | Manchester | England, UK |
31st | 1996 | Technological Educational Institute | Iraklion | Greece |
30th | 1995 | University of Greenwich | London | England, UK |
29th | 1994 | University College Galway | Galway | Ireland |
28th | 1993 | Staffordshire University | Stafford | England, UK |
27th | 1992 | University of Bath | Bath | England, UK |
26th | 1991 | Brighton Polytechnic | Brighton | England, UK |
25th | 1990 | The Robert Gordon University | Aberdeen | Scotland, UK |
24th | 1989 | Queens University Belfast | Belfast | N. Ireland, UK |
23rd | 1988 | Trent Polytechnic | Trent | England, UK |
22nd | 1987 | Sunderland Polytechnic | Sunderland | England, UK |
21st | 1986 | Imperial College London | London | England, UK |
20th | 1985 | Huddersfield Polytechnic | Huddersfield | England, UK |
19th | 1984 | University of Dundee | Dundee | Scotland, UK |
18th | 1983 | University of Surrey | Surrey | England, UK |
17th | 1982 | University of Manchester | Manchester | England, UK |
16th | 1981 | University of Sheffield | Sheffield | England, UK |
15th | 1980 | University of Leicester | Leicester | England, UK |
14th | 1979 | Loughborough University | Leicester | England, UK |
13th | 1978 | University of Southampton | Southampton | England, UK |
12th | 1977 | Brunel University | West London | England, UK |
11th | 1976 | University of Southampton | Southampton | England, UK |
10th | 1975 | University of Aston | Birmingham | England, UK |
9th | 1974 | University of Cambridge | Cambridge | England, UK |
8th | 1973 | University of Bath | Bath | England, UK |
7th | 1972 | University of Bradford | Yorkshire | England, UK |
6th | 1971 | University of Manchester | Manchester | England, UK |
5th | 1970 | University of Swansea | Swansea | Wales, UK |
4th | 1969 | University of Nottingham | Nottingham | England, UK |
3rd | 1968 | Queen Mary College | London | England, UK |
2nd | 1967 | University of Glasgow | Glasgow | Scotland, UK |
1st | 1966 | Meeting | Newcastle | England, UK |
Name | |
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Professor Moofik Al-Tai | Staffordshire University (UK) |
Dr Alecksey Anuchin | Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Russia) |
Dr Noel Barry | Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland) |
Dr Ralf Biernatzki | South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences (Germany) |
Professor Graeme M Burt | University of Strathclyde (UK) |
Professor Luciane Neves Canha | Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil) |
Dr Oguzhan Ceylan | Kadir Has University (Turkey) |
Professor Gianfranco Chicco | Politecnico di Torino (Italy) |
Dr Michael Conlon | Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland) |
Dr Mohammed Elgendy | Newcastle University (UK) |
Dr Mohamed E Farrag | Glasgow Caledonian University (UK) |
Dr Chris Gould | Staffordshire University (UK) |
Professor Naren Gupta | Edinburgh Napier University (UK) |
Professor Manu Haddad | Cardiff University (UK) |
Professor Essam Hamdi | Education and Training International (ETI - London) (UK) |
Professor Noureddine Harid | Khalifa University of Science and Technology (UAE) |
Professor Mattia Marinelli | Technical University of Denmark – DTU (Denmark) |
Professor Dan D Micu | Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) |
Professor Naoto Nagaoka | Doshisha University (Japan) |
Dr Hassan Nouri | University of the West of England (UK) |
Dr Cuney Ozveren | Abertay University (UK) |
Dr Theofilos Papadopoulos | Democritus University of Thrace (Greece) |
Professor Grigoris K Papagiannis | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) |
Dr Gobind G Pillai | Teesside University (UK) |
Dr Ioana Pisica | Brunel University (UK) |
Professor Radu F Porumb | University Polytechnica of Bucharest (Romania) |
Professor Ghanim A Putrus | Northumbria University (UK) |
Professor Salman K Salman | Emeritus Professor (Robert Gordon University) (UK) |
Dr Holger Schau | Ilmenau University of Technology (Germany) |
Professor Gareth A Taylor | Brunel University (UK) |
Professor Roberto Turri | University of Padova (Italy) |
Dr Yuriy Vagapov | Glyndwr University (UK) |