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 […]
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Securing Flight’s Clean Future with Cryogenics and Superconductivity
Joshua Feldman, a graduate student in Professor Kiruba Haran΄s research group, is currently working to solve a rather lofty problem… literally. They are addressing the uncertain outcome of airline travel in an envirocentric future by developing a superconducting motor with the help of cryogenics. The goal is to produce a fully superconducting motor with an […]
Banerjee Receives NSF CAREER Award for Work Emulating a Biological Spine in Robots
Illinois ECE Assistant Professor Arijit Banerjee recently won the NSF CAREER award for his work with bio-inspired design methods for distributed electromechanical actuators to emulate a biological spine. This prestigious award supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission […]
Banerjee and Bose Empower/Recharge Educators During CISTEME365 Session on Power and Energy
During the CISTEME365 Institute from July 22–August 3, 2019, Assistant Professors Subhonmesh Bose and Arijit Banerjee gave a session on power and energy to 13 educators participating in the institute. Part of the three-year NSF grant, Catalyzing Inclusive STEM Experiences All Year Round CISTEME365, their integrated presentation walked through a history of power systems, the […]
PM-Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor as a Compressor Application
MS student Byung Hoon (BH) Min with advisor K. Haran The Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics at the University of Illinois has been collaborating with Prof. Jian-Xin Shen of Zhejiang University (ZJU) on high-speed compressor motor research. BH Min spent one summer month at ZJU to interact with the ZJU team. During this […]
ECE 464 – The Delphi Expedition to Kokomo, Indiana
On November 9, 2018, Professor Banerjee took his ECE 464 class to Delphi Technologies (see above). Students were asked to record their impressions. Following are a few excerpts. “I got to learn a lot of new and amazing things about the applications of power electronics in real life. We got to witness the whole process: […]
NASA Annual Review Haran and Pilawa Groups Present at NASA Annual Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Back Row (Left to Right): Yovahn Hoole, Dongsu Lee, Thomas Foulkes, Chris Barth, Andy Provenza, Robert Pilawa-Podgurski Middle Row (Left to Right): Peter Xia, Sam Coday, Nate Pallo, Thanatheepan Balachandran, Byung Hoon Min, and Andy Yoon Front Row (Left to Right): Xiaolong Zhang, Melody Yi, Samith Sirimanna, Yuyao Wang, Sherry Yu, Aaron Anderson Note: Andy […]
Tour of Xerion R&D and Manufacturing Center in Kettering, Ohio
IEEE PES/PELS/IAS members had the privilege of touring the Xerion Advanced Battery Corps R&D and Manufacturing Center on October 16, 2018. Dr. John Cook, Xerion’s director of R&D, walked the students through each step of the process for manufacturing traditional and Xerion’s advanced batteries. This tour provided valuable insight about the challenges for developing, fabricating, […]
Haran’s Group Visits Johnson Controls
In January, Professor Haran’s group visited Johnson Controls (JCI) where they met with engineering leads on their jointproject,“Development of High Efficiency Compressor Motor Design Project – Phase I Summary and Phase II Launching.” JCI is to provide specifications on the number of speed cycles, fatigue life, windage loss-model validation, and cooling results: scaling down the […]
IEEE Talks Transportation Electrification: Aviation Propulsion
Professor Kiruba Haran, IEEE Fellow, Steering Committee Member of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community, and former chair of the Electric Machinery Committee of IEEE-PES, talked with Dr. Marty Bradley, chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aircraft Electrified Propulsion and Power Working Group and Technical Fellow for The Boeing Company. Marty works […]