The IEEE Electrification magazine featured invited articles on hydrogen-electric aircraft technologies in the June 2022 issue. “Electric Propulsors for Zero-Emission Aircraft: Partially Superconducting Machines” by Samith Sirimanna, Thanatheepan (Theepan) Balachandran, Noah Salk, Jianqiao Xiao, Dongsu Lee, and Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran was highlighted on the front cover. All the authors are employed in Professor Haran’s company […]
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Phil Krein – General Chair of the 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific
ITEC Asia-Pacific 2022 will be held on the Zhejiang University (ZJU) International Campus, Haining, Zhejiang Province, China, from October 28–31, 2022. The conference covers all major topics in power electronics, electric machines, and power systems for transportation electrification. It addresses a variety of transportation systems such as electric vehicles, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, fuel […]
Katherine A. Kim – PELS 2022 Honoree for Pioneering Educational Videos and Online Learning in Power Electronics
Dr. Kim is both a researcher and educator who is renowned for developing engineering lecture videos that she has shared publicly on YouTube since 2014. She posts the lecture videos she develops to her YouTube channel called “katkimshow” which has 76,000+ subscribers and some of her videos have over 430,000 views. To make her courses […]
Annabelle Epplin selected for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Pathways Electrical Engineering Internship
Annabelle began a six-month NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Co-Op January 2022 in Greenbelt, Maryland, as a Pathways Electrical Engineering Intern working in the Environmental Test Engineering and Integration branch. This area is comprised of multiple testing groups in the fields of space simulation, structural dynamics, and electromagnetic interference (EMI). She conducted several EMI, […]
IEEE Power Electronics Society Young Professionals Feature Webinars by Katherine Kim and Pradeep Shenoy
Katherine A. Kim and Pradeep Shenoy, alumni advisees of Professor Krein, were sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), as promising young professionals, to give webinars this spring. Katherine’s title “Developing Online Educational Videos for a Global Audience” is in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and the move toward online education. She received her […]
S’mores Solar Oven Demo and ECE Solar Panels
Annabelle Epplin, the 2020 winner of The Grainger CEME Undergraduate Research and Leadership Award, and Joyce Mast, Coordinator for The Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics, demonstrated making s’mores with a solar oven while discussing the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB)’s solar array. ECEB has about 950 solar panels producing about 275 kilowatts […]
Carle Illinois Welcomes Haran and Oelze
Eight faculty from The Grainger College of Engineering have joined Carle Illinois College of Medicine with Health Innovation Professor appointments, including Illinois ECE professors Kiruba Haran and Michael Oelze. The new faculty deliver on Carle Illinois’ strategy to leverage the University of Illinois’ exceptional faculty to serve as agents of change in medical education, innovation, […]
Illinois ECE Graduate Student Wins Prestigious IEEE Awards
llinois ECE graduate student Megan Culler, advisee of Professor Peter Sauer, recently won the 2019 IEEE-USA Jim Watson Student Professional Awareness Achievement Award, recognizing IEEE members who volunteer to share their professional experiences with students and encourage active, lifelong IEEE membership. This award was established in 2011, but this is the first year that a […]
Huynh Named 2021 Siebel Scholar
Illinois ECE PhD student Phuc Thanh Huynh, advisee of Professor Arijit Banerjee, has been named a 2021 Siebel Scholar. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented graduate students at top universities in the fields of business, computer science, bioengineering, and energy science. Each year around 90 students are selected based on academic merit and […]
InSPIRE Solar Powered Outdoors Table (SPOT)
The SPOT project is a completely student-designed and -implemented outdoors table retrofitted with solar panels used to charge an off-grid solar energy system. The plan is to provide students a space to sit and study outside while charging their devices (cellphones, tablets, laptops, etc.) using solar energy, and allow them to interact with solar energy […]