Professor Fred Wang has received the 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award from Industry Applications Society due to his contributions to electricity in industry.

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).

EECS faculty researchers look for a way to repurpose older, but still useful, EV batteries to bolster the power grid.

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.

Fred Wang, professor of electrical engineering, is a recipient of the IEEE IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department Gerald Kliman Innovator Award.

Researchers in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are creating microgrids that could be the key to keeping lights on.

Fred Wang, UT’s Condra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics, was selected as a National Academy of Inventors Fellow for 2017.