CEME People

Philip Krein
(PhD 1982, UIUC)
krein@illinois.edu

Director of the Center and Grainger Endowed Director’s Chair Professor. His research interests include dynamic performance, control, and design of high-performance electric machines and large-signal analysis and control of power electronic systems.

Patrick Chapman
(PhD 2000, Purdue University)
plchapma@illinois.edu

The Associate Director of the Center and a Grainger Associate. His main interests include electric machines and drives, power electronics, and power integrated circuits.

Kevin Colravy
(BSEE 1995, University of Illinois)
colravy@illinois.edu

CEME’s research engineer. Kevin has worked at the University of Illinois as a research engineer in areas of electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and micro/nanofabrication. He now manages all the Grainger CEME labs and assists with student projects.

Alejandro Domínguez-García
(PhD 2007, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
aledan@illinois.edu

Alejandro is engaged in research that lies at the interface of system reliability theory and control theory, with special emphasis on applications to power electronics, electric power systems, and safety-critical/fault-tolerant aircraft, aerospace and automotive systems.

Paul Kenis
(PhD 1997, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)
kenis@illinois.edu

Kyekyoon (Kevin) Kim
(PhD 1971, Cornell University)
kevinkim@illinois.edu

Director of the Thin Film and Charged Particle Research Laboratory. He collaborates with the CEME in the fabrication of fuel cells and microreactors for advanced energy applications.

Thomas Overbye
(PhD 1991, University of Wisconsin–Madison)
overbye@illinois.edu

A Grainger Associate and works in the area of power system operations and simulation. He is interested in visualization tools for all aspects of electric power and is developing visualization tools that illustrate dynamic magnetic fields in motors.

Peter Sauer
(PhD 1977, Purdue University)
psauer@illinois.edu

Professor Sauer is a Grainger Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include all aspects of electric machines and their interactions in power systems.