Students and visitors in the ECEB lobby have learned about energy efficiency through the Student Sustainability Committee-funded touch-screen energy display since Engineering Open House 2021. Two kiosks present ways to reduce energy use and encourage visitors to commit to one or more of these. In return, their names are entered into a random drawing to […]
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Professor Haran Comments on “The Batteries and Motors that Could Help Electric Planes Take Off”in Science
Electric planes that could fly cleaner and transport hundreds of people thousands of miles depend on more powerful batteries and motors than those used in today’s electric cars. Although shorter-range electric planes and electric air taxies, including electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (EVTOL) that carry a few people short distances nearby (from downtown to the airport) could be […]
Associate Professor Arijit Banerjee Presents Illinois ECE (500) Faculty Spotlight – “High Power Demonstration of a Wind Energy Harvesting Architecture”
Professor Arijit Banerjee’s group has been researching a wind-energy harvest architecture suitable for offshore wind turbines, which has been funded by the Department of Energy since 2018. They used a 400 W benchtop setup to prove the concept and demonstrated it at a 125 kW power level at the POETS Research and Development Center (see […]
The Grainger CEME Welcomes Dr. Ulaş Coşkun, the New Grainger CEME Research Engineer
Dr. Ulaş C. Coşkun began work in September as CEME’s new research engineer. Dr. Coskun oversees the CEME facilities and the power and energy systems areas on the 4th floor of ECEB and ensures the equipment is in optimal condition for faculty and student use. He primarily supports faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students in experimental […]
Professor Alejandro Domínguez-García Elevated to IEEE Fellow and Invested as the M. Stanley Helm Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE Professor Domínguez-García and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Information Trust Institute, has received dual honors. He became the Inaugural M. Stanley Helm Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering as of August 2023, to be invested on March 25, 2024, was recognized by IEEE for his contributions to distributed control and […]
Kiruba Haran, Grainger Endowed Director’s Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics is Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Professor Haran joined 24 other active NAE members in the Grainger Engineering faculty. These include CEME Power faculty members Professor Emeritus Phil Krein and, before him, the late Professor Emeritus Pete Sauer. NAE memberships are among the highest honors an engineer in the U.S. can receive.Kiruba studies high specific power cryogenic and non-cryogenic machines for […]
CEME Undergraduate Research and Leadership Awardee David Mengel Wins Solar Phone Charger While Learning about Energy Efficiency
On January 5, 2023, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign became the university’s first zero energy (ZE) certified facility through innovative facility design and clean energy produced on campus. All the operational energy associated with ECEB is now offset through a combination of on-site solar production and solar […]
The ECE Community Mourns the Loss of Professor Pete Sauer
Peter Sauer, Grainger Chair Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, died on December 27, 2022 in Urbana, IL. He was 76.Pete joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a faculty member in 1977. At UIUC he taught courses and directed research on power systems and electric machines. His main contributions were in the modeling […]
The ECE Building Becomes the University’s First Zero-Energy Certified Facility
On January 5, 2023, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign became the university’s first zero energy (ZE) certified facility through innovative facility design and clean energy produced on campus. All the operational energy associated with ECEB is now offset through a combination of on-site solar production and solar […]
“Electric Propulsors for Zero-Emission Aircraft: Partially Superconducting Machine” Featured on Cover of IEEE Electrification Magazine
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 […]