The Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) is a multidisciplinary research center organized to perform basic and applied research to advance the feld of power systems technology. CAPS emphasis is on application to electric utility, defense, and transportation, as well as, developing an education program to train the next generation of power systems engineers. The research focuses on electric power systems modeling and simulation, power electronics and machines, control systems, thermal management, high temperature superconductor characterization and electrical insulation research. CAPS has developed a unique test and demonstration facility with one of the largest real-time digital power systems simulators along with 5 MW test beds for AC and DC for hardware in the loop simulation. The center is supported by a research team comprised of dedicated and highly skilled researchers, scientists, faculty, engineers, and students, recruited from across the globe, with strong representation from both the academic/research community and industry.

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Dr. Dale is Director - Center for Advanced Power Systems at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL, and joined CAPS at FSU in March 2003. He is responsible for Research programs in power and energy, with a staf of 46 faculty, scientist, engineers and support staf. Major sponsors of CAPS include the Ofce of Naval Research on electric ship power systems, including the ONR Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium of 8 universities, a $95 million consortium funded by ONR and led by FSU, now in its second 5 year term, DOE funded power grid related research, and several industry organizations and companies, including EPRI. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of the Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium, 2009-2010, and was the Chairman from 2003-2008. Dr. Dale also serves as FSU Campus Director for a NSF Engineering Research Center in partnership with North Carolina State University (lead) presently undergoing approvals at NSF. From 1992, he was Manager of the Power Systems Center in ABB's Electric Systems Technology Institute and subsequently manager of the Institute's Equipment and Materials Center, and Manager of Strategic Technologies and Government Relations for ABB Power Technologies Division in the Strategic Marketing group located in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Prior to Joining ABB in 1992, he was with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he was responsible for research and development in the area of electric utility systems for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). From 1976 to 1984, Dr. Dale worked for the Westinghouse R&D Center in Pittsburgh, PA. In 1986-87, Dr. Dale served as a Congressional Science Fellow (IEEE) on the staf of the Committee of Science Space and Technology in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC where he focused on US Technology Policy and stafed several task force hearings.

Dr. Dale has a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland in electrical engineering. His technical specialty is high voltage electrical insulation.