CURENT’s five power electronics professors (Drs. Kevin Bai, Daniel Costinett, Jiangbiao He, Leon Tolbert, and Fred Wang) visited ORNL’s National Transportation Research Center and GRID-C power research facilities on June 30 as a reciprocal visit (ORNL researchers had visited CURENT…
On Thursday, June 12, CURENT graduate students and staff assisted with a campus visit by high school students from the PiPES Explorers Camp Program. CURENT members led the students on a tour of labs in the Min Kao Building and…
On May 28, 2025, Jim LeBlanc, Technology Director for Electrification and Judy Guzzo, Business Development Manager/External Partnerships Manager for Electrification at GE Vernova Advanced Research (GEVAR) visited CURENT. CURENT power electronics faculty Fred Wang, Kevin Bai, Daniel Costinett, JiangBiao He,…
On May 30, Dr. Adam Birchfield, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University presented on the topic, Applying Network Synthesis Methods to Long-Term Transmission Planning. Growth in bulk electric demand, largely driven by datacenters, and the interconnection of…
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…
Two CURENT students were selected by faculty to receive the 2025 Handong Gui Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher Awards. Ziwei Liang, advised by Dr. Kevin Bai, received the award in power electronics. Kaiyang Huang, advised by Dr. Kai Sun, received the…
On May 19, the CURENT faculty recognized students and staff for their outstanding leadership and service resulting in a successful industry conference hosted on the UT campus in April. Students and staff actively engaged in prior planning and preparation as…
The 2025 CURENT Industry Conference was held on April 22–23 at the Student Union and Min H. Kao Building at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The event brought together leading minds in power systems and power electronics, providing a platform…
On April 20, Ibukunoluwa Korede (IBK), of Dominion Energy, hosted a dinner in Knoxville for CURENT faculty and for students who have upcoming internships there.
Yilu Liu, CURENT Deputy Director, visited with Dr. Arun Phadke in Portland, Oregon to discuss the next new research agenda for the center. Dr. Phadke is a former CURENT SAB member.