Ph.D. student Jong Moon Ha of Professor Byeng Dong Youn’s System Health and Risk Management lab claimed the Excellent Student Paper award in the 2014 KSME Fall Competition with the research titled “Average Time-synchronization based fault diagnosis considering the vibration modulation effect of the wind generator’s planetary gearbox.”, being commended for its excellence and uniqueness.<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

The research focused on identifying the types of vibration modulation effects the gearbox of a wind generator experiences and the development and evaluation of a gearbox condition monitoring technology that can be robustly used the afore mentioned situations, and was commended on the great contribution the progress of the technology and academics in this field.