Power electronics faculty and students from CURENT attended the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) last week in Detroit, Michigan, the world’s largest power electronics conference.

The Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT) hosted the IEEE International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC) 2022, the largest international student competition in power electronics for innovation, conservation, and effective use of electrical energy, in the Min H. Kao Building on July 27-29.

UT’s Fred Wang and Hua Bai are developing breaker-related technology that could help improve electrified flight and increase the speed at which it is adopted.

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As more solar power is being generated and used than ever before, managing its growth, and the policies governing its […]

Yilu Liu, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Power Electronics, was awarded the 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award

Several members of CURENT were recognized by the University of Tennessee Research Foundation at the 2019 Innovation Awards.

Linquan Bai, a recent alumnus of EECS/CURENT and now an Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte; Hantao Cui, CURENT research assistant […]

Two alumni of CURENT along with EECS Professor Fran Li receiveved the IEEE PES Technical Committer Prize Paper Award.

Kevin Bai, professor of electrical engineering and member of CURENT, was selected to chair the 2021 IEEE International Future Energy Challenge.