CURENT PhD student Mohamed Y. Metwly recently received the Best Presentation Award at the IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference. The conference was held in Houston, Texas from May 18 to 21, 2025. Pictured: Dr. JiangBiao He and and…
Dr. Horacio Silva, a UT Graduate who studied under Dr. Hector Pulgar, is now working for Electric Power Group in California where he recently won first place in the Next Generation Network (NGN) Showcase Presentation. In August, he represented the…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2024 R&D 100 Award Announced Dr. Yilu Liu’s team received notification that Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee are the recipients of a 2024 R&D 100 Award…
CURENT Hosted a Mini-Workshop on Power System Simulation On August 14th, CURENT hosted a mini-workshop featuring two invited guest speakers: Dr. Qiuhua Huang from the Colorado School of Mines and Dr. Philip Top from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Huang…
Dr. Fran Li recaps CURENT 2024 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting in Seattle CURENT held its annual summer strategic planning meeting with its industrial members during the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting (GM). The meeting this year took…
By Sebastian Martinez-Lizana The 2024 CURENT Industry Conference, held on April 30 and May 1 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville brought together leading minds in energy systems, green technology, and power electronics. This event provided a platform for cutting-edge…
Dr. Fran Li and his former PhD student received the Best Paper award at International Journal of Electric Power and Energy Dr. Fangxing (Fran) Li’s paper, titled “Network Reconfiguration and Distributed Energy Resource Scheduling for Improved Distribution System Resilience,” has…