Bob Bass Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering - Engineering & Computer Science, Maseeh College of Office FAB Email rbass2@pdx.edu Contact me Professor Bass established and directs the Power Engineering Research Group at Portland State University. Dr. Bass’ group focuses on utility-sector research and development challenges. His on-going projects include development of a distributed energy resource aggregation system, distributed trust models for ensuring energy transaction trustworthiness, distribution system modeling, high-power electric vehicle charging impacts on distribution systems, ancillary service dispatch using aggregated DER, volt/VAr control and conservation voltage regulation within distribution feeders, and cybersecurity threat detection using phasor measurement units. He has successfully attracted funding from a wide variety of sources, including government and industry. Dr. Bass has partnered with Portland General Electric, the Bonneville Power Administration, Pacific Northwest National Labs, Drive Oregon, Kitu Systems, Quality Logic, and the Transportation Research & Education Center, among others. Research Interest and Expertise Distributed energy resource aggregation systems DER characterization and modeling Volt/VAr control and CVR for distribution feeders with BESS EV harmonic impacts on distribution feeders Courses Taught EE 347 Power Systems I EE 348 Power Systems II EE 4/530 Analytical Methods for Power Systems ECE 411 Industry Design Processes ECE 412 Senior Project Development I ECE 413 Senior Project Development II Links to Research Archives Google Scholar Research Gate PDX Scholar Electrical and Computer Engineering Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science Education Ph.D. Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Virginia