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Nov 18, 2021 -- Congrats to Cole Ivey on Passing the M.S. Thesis Defense
Nov 18, 2021 -- Congrats to Cole Ivey on passing the M.S. thesis defense on the topic of Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Propulsion System based on SiC Triple Active Bridge Multiport Power Converter. Cole's research has been supported by the NASA-KY EPSCoR grant and the TVA fellowship, under the supervision of Dr. He. Cole has joined Ethicon in Cincinnati, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson corporation (a Fortune 500 company) as an electrical engineer.
Oct 18, 2021 -- DOD DURIP Award to Build Real-Time Hardware-in-Loop Simulation Platform
Oct 18, 2021 -- We are awarded a DOD DURIP (Defense University Research Instrumentation Program) grant to build a real-time hardware-in-loop simulation platform, to enable modeling, online fault prognostics and diagnostics, fault protection as well as digital control of power components and systems. This awarded project, $876,408 in total, is led by PI Dr. Yuan Liao, and the Co-PIs include Dr. JiangBiao He, Dr. Aaron Cramer, and Dr. Dan M. Ionel, all from the electric power group at the University of Kentucky.
Oct 10, 2021 -- Our Lab Participates in the ECCE-2021 Virtual Conference and Presents Recent Research Achievements
Oct 10, 2021 -- Prof. He, and PhD candidates, Pranoy Roy and Majid T. Fard, participate in the virtual 2021 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE-2021), one of the flagship international conferences in electric power energy area, between Oct 10 - Oct 14, 2021.
During ECCE-2021, Prof. He gives a 3-hour tutorial with Prof. Fang Luo from Stony Brook University on developing "SiC+Si" hybrid power modules and power converters, a new power electronics concept to achieve high energy efficiency and high reliability with low cost. Pranoy and Majid give online presentations on "wind-PV-ESS" hybrid renewable energy systems and electric aircraft medium-voltage propulsion inverters/drives, respectively. The titles of these presentations are provided below, and the full content of the papers will be published in IEEE Xplore soon.
[1] F. Luo and J. He, “Hybrid Semiconductor Switches based Power Modules, Converters, and Systems”, 3-hour professional tutorial.
[2] M. Fard and J. He, "Comparison of Medium-Voltage High-Frequency Power Inverters for Aircraft Propulsion Drives"
[3] P. Roy, J. He, and A. Cramer, "Three-Port Multilevel Converter for Hourly Dispatching Solar PV Power with Battery Energy Storage System"
[4] P. Roy and J. He, "Economic Analysis for Hourly Dispatching Wind Energy Power Using Battery and Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System"
Sept. 1, 2021 -- New NASA KY Space REU Grant on Fault-Tolerant Electric Propulsion Drive System
Sept. 1, 2021 -- Our lab was awarded a one-year NASA KY Space REU Grant on developing fault-tolerant electric propulsion drives, to improve the reliability of aircraft electric propulsion systems. Our student Jonanthan Taylor will be working on this project under the supervision of Dr. He, and the researchers at NASA Glenn Research Center will also be invovled in providing technical guidance.
July 29, 2021 -- Dr. JiangBiao He Received the 2021 Zucker Faculty Grant
July 29, 2021 -- Dr. JiangBiao He received the 2021 Zucker Faculty Grant on developing digital twin technologies for electric propulsion drives, which helps enhance the reliability of the electric propulsion systems in electric vehicles, electric aircraft, and electric shipboards. The Myron Zucker Faculty Grant Program was established within the IEEE Foundation by the IEEE Awards Board in 1987. Every year, only two research proposals are selected from the global professional society for the Zucker Faculty Grant Program.
July. 1, 2021 -- Project Awarded by DOE ARPA-E on Extending the Service Life of Large Power Transformers
July 1, 2021 -- DOE ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy) awarded a new project on the lifetime improvement of large power transformers, collaborated between General Electric (GE) Corporation and our AMPERE Lab. This is a two-year project, with a total funding of $1.71 M, led by GE Research.
June 28, 2021 -- Congrats to Pranoy and Majid on Starting the Summer Internship with Leading Industries
June 28, 2021 -- Congrats to Ph.D. students Pranoy Roy and Majid Fard on starting their summer internship with Eaton Corporation and Canoo Inc., respectively. Eaton is one of the top global power management companies, and Canoo is an American manufacturer of electric microbus and commercial EVs.
May 14, 2021 -- Dr. JiangBiao He Received ECE Outstanding Teacher Award
May 14, 2021 -- Dr. JiangBiao He, received the 2021 ECE Outstanding Teacher Award. This award, voted by both UK-ECE undergraduate and graduate students, recognizes a teacher in the ECE Department who demonstrates outstanding teaching and promotes academic excellence.
May 11, 2021 -- Congrats to PhD Candidates Pranoy and Majid on Passing the Dissertation Oral Qualifying Exam
May 11, 2021 -- Pranoy Roy and Majid T. Fard, both are Ph.D. students with the AMPERE Lab, have passed the dissertation Oral Qualifying Exams. Their proposed dissertation titles are:
Pranoy: Hourly Dispatching Wind-Solar Hybrid Power System with Battery-Supercapacitor Energy Storage
Majid: High-Performance "Si+SiC" Hybrid Multilevel Inverter for Electric Aircraft Propulsion
Their recent research accomplishments on these topics have been published in refereed IEEE journals and conference proceedings. Congratulations to both on achieving the research milestones!
Jan. 12, 2021 -- Congrats to Trevor Arvin on Receiving ECE URF Sponsored by Schneider Electronics
Jan. 12, 2021 -- Congrats to Trevor Arvin on receiving ECE Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) sponsored by Schneider Electronics. Trevor has been working on the development of DC circuit breakers since summer 2019, and will continue to work on novel DC breaker technologies sponsored by Schneider Electronics.
