Four representatives from Dominion Energy spoke to students enrolled in a junior-level electrical engineering course about elements of careers in the power system industry. How elements of the work, including the critical importance of safety and the integration of industry…
Dr. Kevin Bai visited Lucid Motors on February 24 as part of the ongoing DOE motor drive inverter project effort. Bai discussed the progress and challenges of the present inverter and motor design with Lucid teams. In addition, Bai introduced…
Dr. Fran Li, Director of the CURENT, along with Dr. Jin Zhao, a former postdoctoral researcher, and Dr. Qiwei Zhang, a former Ph.D. student, have co-authored a paper published in the prestigious journal Nature Energy, titled “Impacts of renewable energy…
The Lenoir City High School student filled out the anonymous survey after hearing Hector Pulgar share his personal story about pursuing a career in engineering. Pulgar, an associate professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was…
Dr. Yilu Liu, CURENT Deputy Director, traveled to Chile January 7-10, 2025. She presented on the topic of the GridEye GPS-synchronized wide-area power system frequency network at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Santiago, Chile. She also visited the…
CURENT’s Deputy Director, Dr. Yilu Liu, was the keynote speaker at the Executive Women’s Association of Knoxville’s End of the Year luncheon at Bistro By The Tracks on Wednesday, December 4. The Executive Women’s Association is an organization composed of…
On November 21, 2024, the CURENT research center welcomed a team from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a Principal Member of the CURENT Industry Program. The visiting delegation included Anish Gaikwad (Deputy Director of Transmission Operations & Planning), Vikas…
CURENT graduate student, Sebastian Martinez Lizana, received the second-place Graduate Presentation Award for his paper titled, “Application of Orthogonal Projectors in Power System Dynamics.” This research applies orthogonal projectors to simplify power system dynamics analysis. By projecting complex, high-dimensional behaviors…
IEEE Energy Conversion and Congress Expo (ECCE) 2024 was hosted in Phoenix, AZ, Oct 19-24. CURENT has 10 Professors and Staff (Kevin Bai, JiangBiao He, Leon Tolbert, Fred Wang, Ruirui Chen, Jingxin Wang, Shiyuan Fan, Anubrata Das, Nupur, Anwesha Mukhopadhyay)…