MAGE Faculty

Dr. Turso works in the area of shipboard advanced power systems, instrumentation and control. His current assignments at Newport News Shipbuilding focus on the modeling and analysis of shipboard power and control systems. He was part of the machinery control system commissioning team aboard the USS Makin Island (LHD8), the US Navy's first Hybrid-drive (gas turbine/induction electric motor) ship, and has been part of the development team for the machinery control system of the USS Gerald Ford. Over the course of his career, he has taught over 50 college-level courses in a variety of engineering disciplines. While at Bettis Laboratory in Pittsburgh, PA, his duties related to the monitoring and control of nuclear plant systems and components, and was an instructor at the Reactor Engineering School. Jim has a M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical and nuclear engineering from Pennsylvania State University, a M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Idaho, and a B.E. in marine engineering from the S.U.N.Y. Maritime College at Fort Schuyler. He also holds a U.S.C.G. 3rd Assistant Engineer's license, held a U.S.N.R.C Senior Reactor Operator's license and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania.

Power System Analysis and Control

James. A. Turso Part-Time Academic Experience – Lecturer

SP 22 Wind Energy Engineering (Graduate-Level, EE.) University of Toledo, Toledo, MD

SU 21 Vector Control of Motor Drives (Graduate-Level, Electrical Engr.) Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

FA 20, SP 21 Power Generation Operation and Control (Graduate-Level, Electrical Engr.) Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

SU 20, FA 21 Shipboard Power Systems and Power Electronics (Graduate-Level, Electrical Engr.) Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

SP 20 Shipboard MVDC Microgrids (Graduate-Level, Electrical Engr.) Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

SP 19 Power System Protection (Graduate-Level, Electrical Engr.) Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

SU 18, SP 21 Commercial Marine-Nuclear Propulsion (Graduate-Level, Marine Engr.) George Washington University, Washington, DC

FA 17, 18, 20 Wind Energy Engineering (Graduate-Level, Energy Engr.) University of Maryland, College Park, MD

FA 15, 18, 20 Computational Methods (Graduate-Level, Marine Engr.) United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY

SP 16, SP 17 Nuclear Reactor Dynamics and Control (Graduate-Level, Nuclear Engr.) Penn State University, University Park, PA

SU 17, 19, 21 Shipboard Automation and Control Systems (Graduate-Level, Marine Engr.) United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY

SU 16, 18, 20 Electric Propulsion Systems (Graduate-Level, Marine Engr.) United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY

FA 14, 15, 16 Reactor Physics Laboratory (Senior-Level, Nuclear Engr.) Penn State University, University Park, PA

SP 16 Nuclear Facility Physical Security (Senior-Level. Nuclear Engr.) Penn State University, University Park, PA

SP 14, 15, 18 Electric Motors and Drive Systems (Senior-Level. Electrical Engr.) Penn State University, University Park, PA

SP 13, SU 14, FA 15 Nuclear Reactor Dynamics and Control (Graduate-Level, Energy Engr.) University of Maryland, College Park, MD

SU 11 Commercial Marine-Nuclear Propulsion (Graduate-Level, Nuclear Engr.) Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA

SU 10, 13, 15, SP 19, 21 Commercial Marine-Nuclear Propulsion (Graduate-Level, Marine Engr.) United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY

Turso, J. A., and R. M. Edwards. “Kalman Filter-Based Maximum A Posteriori Probability Detection of Boiling Water Reactor Stability,” IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, Vol. 12, No. 5, September 2004

Turso, J.A., Litt, J.S., “A Foreign Object Damage Event Detector Data Fusion System for Turbofan Engines,” AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, Vol. 2, No. 7, July 2005.

Turso, J., Lawrence, C., and Litt, J., “Reduced-Order Modeling and Wavelet Analysis of Turbofan Engine Structural Response due to Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Events,” ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, July 2007.

Turso, J.A., Logan, K., Brick, D.C., "Shipboard Applications of Advanced Model-based Sensor Diagnostics," Northrop Grumman Technical Review Journal, August, 2007. (Winner, 2007 Best Paper Award).

Turso, J.A., Litt, J.S., “Toward an Intelligent, Deterioration Accomodating Controller for Aging Turbofan Engines,” The Aeronautical Journal, October 2008.

Turso, J.A., Ainsworth, W, Dusang, L., Smith, L, “U.S.S. Makin Island: Simulation-Based Analysis and its Role in Electric-Plant Control System Design,” Electric Ship Technology Symposium, Alexandria, VA, 2007.

Turso, J., T. Dalton, S. McCullough , C. Bottorff, W. Ainsworth, C. Mako, S. Foster, R. Peden, D. Johnson, “U.S.S. Makin Island Auxiliary Propulsion System: Identification and Accommodation of System-Level Interactions,” Electric Machinery Technology Symposium (EMTS), American Society of Naval Engineers, 2010.

Turso, J., Simon, D., Boughner, A., Buonamici, G., Johnson, D., and Rucker, H., “Propulsion Simulator/Stimulator Development for US NAVY’S Newest Gas Turbine-Powered Ship, LHD 8 USS Makin Island,” Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2010: Power for Land, Sea and Air GT2010, Glasgow, UK, 2010.

Lawson, M., Turso, J., “Development and Hardware-In-The-Loop Analysis of Commercial Marine-Nuclear Propulsion Plant Programmable Logic Controller-Based Control,” Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society NPIC&HMIT 2012, San Diego, CA 2012