Solar panels are key to the new super-efficient ECE building achieving zero net energy. We project that this goal can be met with 1.5 megawatts of solar energy: .3 megawatt on the ECE building (ECEB) and 1.2 megawatts on the adjacent North Parking Garage (NPG) roof. The Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) first funded a $150,000 […]
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CEME Professors Haran, Krein and Pilawa-Podgurski win $2M NASA Fixed Wing Project
Aircraft emissions make up only two – three percent of total greenhouse gasses, but because they are emitted directly in the atmosphere they cause disproportionate harm to the environment. With the ever increasing volume of air traffic, aircraft designs must rapidly become more efficient to keep from exacerbating climate change. Associate Professor Kiruba Haran, with […]
CEME faculty team up to win Regional Microgrid Education and Training (MARMET) Consortium $880,000 grant
Professors Alejandro Domínguez-García, Philip Krein, Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, Pete Sauer, and George Gross, with Jana Sebestik in Math Science Technology Education, have received an $880,000, five-year Department of Energy grant to develop a microgrid training program for traditional and non-traditional settings that combines cutting-edge research and advanced instructional methods. They are teaming up with Missouri University […]
Domínguez-García invited to attend National Academy of Engineering U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
ECE Associate Professor Alejandro Domínguez-García was selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to attend the United States Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, along with 82 other engineers who were all determined by the academy to be future leaders of the engineering field. The event took place Sept. 11–13 in Irvine, California. The symposium is […]
Pilawa-Podgurski earns PELS young engineer award
Assistant Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski has received the Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) for his innovative work on efficient, yet small and inexpensive power converters. The award is given annually to one PELS member, out of 7,000 researchers and practitioners, to recognize early-career developments and […]
CEME Undergraduate Research and Leadership Awardee Carl Haken Awarded PES Scholarship
Carl Haken, a CEME Undergraduate Research and Leadership Awardee, is one of four ECE students to win an IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes students of academic achievement in their sophomore year or above who intend to pursue careers in power and energy engineering. It is renewable for three years, with the […]