More than sixty Illinois students, including sixteen from ECE, collaborated for two years with a team from Peking University in Beijing to design and build Etho House, a showcase home for the first-ever Solar Decathlon China held in the city of Datong during the first two weeks of August. With 42 solar panels on the […]
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Illini Formula Electric Vehicle Team Shows Their Rolling Chassis
The Illini Formula Electric team will compete in the 2014 Formula Hybrid International Competition at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH and the Formula SAE Electric Competition in Lincoln, Nebraska. Moving to a fully electric vehicle, they are improving their car’s reliability by using fully custom controls instrumentation completed last year. They will […]
CEME Professors Robert Pilawa-Podgurski and Alejandro Domínguez- García to Coordinate Research Experiments on the New Illinois Center for a Smarter Grid (ICSEG) Solar Test Bed
The ICSEG is contributing to renewable energy research with the installation of an experimental solar array on the south side of the University of Illinois campus. Co-principal investigators Robert Pilawa-Podgurski and Alejandro Domínguez García will coordinate experiments and guide student research in areas such as innovative control, grid connections, and advances in microinverters and power […]
CEME Four-Quadrant Electric Drive Test Bed
This four-quadrant electric drive test bed, built in the ECE machine shop, will support comprehensive tests of machines and their electro-thermal system behavior. The ac dynamometer system recirculates energy, allowing a building to supply only lost power, and can be run up to 50 HP or so. It has several advantages compared to a more […]