Heydt
Gerald T. Heydt
- Regents' Professor
- Electrical Engineering
- Bio
- Expertise
- Education
- Honors & Distinctions
- Selected Publications
Gerald Thomas Heydt is from Las Vegas, NV. He holds a BEEE degree from the Cooper Union in New York and MSEE and PhD. degrees from Purdue University. He spent approximately 25 years as a faculty member at Purdue, and in 1994, he took the position of site director of the NSF and industrially supported Power Systems Research Center at ASU. He has industrial experience with the Commonwealth Edison Company in Chicago, E.G. & G. in Mercury, NV, and with the United Nations Development Program. In 1990, he served as the program manager of the National Science Foundation program in power systems engineering. He is the author of two books in the area of power engineering. Dr. Heydt is a Regents’ Professor at ASU, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Power engineering, electric power quality, distribution engineering, transmission engineering, computer applications in power engineering, power engineering education, power system sensors and instrumentation.
Purdue University 1970
Purdue University 1967
Cooper Union 1965
Fellow of the IEEE, member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, Edison Electric Institute Power Engineering Educator Award, 1989, IEEE Power Engineering Society Power Engineering Educator of the Year, 1995.
J.W. Stahlhut, T. J. Browne, G. T. Heydt, and V. Vittal, “Latency Viewed as a Stochastic Process and its Impact on Wide Area Power System Control Signals,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 23, no. 1, 84 – 91, February 2008.
E. Kyriakides, M. M. Albu, G. T. Heydt, “Identification of the Standard Parameters of a Steam Turbine – Generator Using Wavelet Denoising,” Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 38, no. 10, 1145 – 1158, October 2007.
R. Peréz, G. Heydt, G. Karady, and J. Ramírez, “Electrical and Environmental Considerations of an Arizona - Mexico HVDC Tie,” Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 35, no. 9, 1027 – 1040, September 2007.
J. Stahlhut and G. T. Heydt, “Stochastic-algebraic Calculation of available Transfer Capability,” IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 22, no. 2, 616 – 623, May 2007.
J. Stahlhut and G. Heydt, “The Evaluation of Stochastic available Transfer Capability,” Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 35, no. 4, 563 – 571, April 2007.

