Professor Fran Li received the Billonton Award and Prize Paper Award at the 2026 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting in Montreal, Canada.

Staff and students from CURENT received multiple awards at the 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion and Congress Expo (ECCE).

Dan Wilson and Kevin Bai initiated two very different and highly successful electrical engineering programs for underserved high school students this year.

The Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT) held their annual Industry Conference at the University of Tennessee.

Fran Li been appointed as the new director of CURENT. Li, who has been with CURENT since its inception in 2011, is replacing Kevin Tomsovic in the leading role.

The Till family is made up of several engineers, including electrical and mechanical, and most of them attended the University of Tennessee.

The University of Tennessee has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help modernize the nation’s power grid. UT’s team will be developing light-triggered semiconductor switch modules.

Power electronics faculty and students from the CURENT attended the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE).

Professors Mingzhou Jin, Chien-fei Chen, and Kevin Tomsovic join colleagues from Japan in an interdisciplinary, collaborative effort to pursue clean technologies.

CURENT Director and UT Chancellor’s Professor Kevin Tomsovic has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.