Associate Professor Alejandro Domínguez-García was surprised to win a 2014 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award from the Provost that recognizes recently promoted faculty who have shown special promise in their fields. The Provost’s office selected four promoted professors from throughout the campus to receive the award after considering the quality and impact of their scholarship, teaching, […]
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Robert Pilawa Wins Air Force Young Investigator Award to Build Inflight Supercomputers
The Air Force awarded Professor Robert Pilawa $360,000 over three years as part of its Young Investigator Program, which is geared toward promising researchers who have received their PhD within the last five years. The new computing systems designed for storage and processing information are intended to be lightweight and compact enough to function on […]
Kiruba Haran Wins a 2015 Leading Edge Aeronautics Research for NASA (LEARN) Award
Professor Kiruba Haran was one of four researchers, selected nationwide, to be awarded a 2015 Leading Edge Aeronautics Research for NASA (LEARN) award for his proposal “Concept for Order-of-Magnitude Increase in Electrical Machine Power Density.” The U of I team is partnering with Ohio State University and the Air Force Research Laboratory. At Illinois, Professor […]
Workshop on Microgrid Systems and Power Electronics for Low Energy Buildings
A workshop on Microgrid Systems and Power Electronics for Low Energy Buildings, held on March 29-30, 2015 in the new ECE building, addressed renewable energy systems and their integration into electricity grids and buildings. It was sponsored by the Mid-America Microgrid Education and Training Consortium (MARMET), the Power Sources Manufacturers Association, the IEEE Power Electronics […]
Undergraduate Grainger Center Research and Leadership Program
Program supports students with a CEME Undergraduate Research and Leadership Award of $10,000 per academic year. Awardees work an average of ten hours per week on research projects in CEME laboratories during the academic year, successfully complete CEME-related courses, and actively participate in a leadership role in a range of CEME programs. Download program description […]