Rate My Professor Gregory Turner

Gregory Turner is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he also serves as the Undergraduate Faculty Advisor for Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the Pulsed Power and Energy Laboratory and represents the College of Engineering on the Faculty Senate. Turner's research area is Embedded Control Systems for Renewable Energy and Microgrid Applications. He teaches undergraduate courses such as EE 3318: Real-Time Digital Signal Processing, EE 1311: Embedded System Programming, and EE 1106: Introduction to Electrical Engineering.

Turner received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2014. His dissertation, "A Formalized Method For State Machine Software Implementation In Smart Microgrid Control Systems," advised by David A. Wetz Jr., addresses challenges in smart microgrid control. It defines smart grids and microgrids, proposes a three-tiered hierarchical control scheme, reviews control theory and formalized software design techniques, details the UTA Microgrid test platform hardware, presents a state machine design method with LabVIEW implementation guidelines, implements and tests a specific use case on the UTA Microgrid, and suggests future work. Prior to graduate studies, Turner earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and worked in industry for several years. His publications include the 2014 dissertation and a 2024 co-authored paper titled "Validation of Power System Control Methodologies using a Microgrid Testbed Employing Low and Medium Voltage (MV) AC and DC Sources."