Nicole Zimmerman is an MS candidate in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at Portland State University. She has worked as a research and teaching assistant in the Power Engineering Education Lab since her final year as an undergraduate at PSU. Nicole has contributed to several projects during that time, including analyses of natural ester oils as replacements for mineral oil in transformers and an HVDC feasibility study. Her thesis work employs VHDL-AMS in order to create generalized models of electric vehicle charging circuits for use in a tool designed to aid distribution engineers in planning electric vehicle charging installations.