PEIK Researchers Participate in Online IEEE ECCE 2020 Congress, Report on Sponsored Research

Power and Energy Institute of Kentucky (PEIK) and University of Kentucky (UK) College of Engineering faculty, including Don Colliver, Aaron Cramer, Jiangbiao He, Dan M. Ionel, and Yuan Liao, and postdoctoral researcher Peng Han, together with research students, including Oluwaseun Akeyo, Rosemary Alden, Huangjie Gong, Evan S. Jones, Murat Kesgin, Damien Lawhorn, Donovin Lewis, Pranoy Kumar Singha Roy, and Yibin Zhang contributed papers and presentations to the IEEE ECCE 2020 Congress and the IAS Annual Meeting. The papers cover topics of smart grids and homes, renewable energy devices and systems, energy storage, power electronics, electric machines, and recent research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), and directly by industry and utilities, including ANSYS, Inc., Regal Beloit Corp., Schneider Electric, and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
 
The Energy Conversion Congress and Exhibition (ECCE) is the largest annual joint event of the IEEE Industry Applications and IEEE Power Electronics Societies, which typically attracts approximately 2,000 attendees. The Industry Applications Society (IAS) Annual Meeting was co-located with ECCE and the two events, which were originally scheduled for Detroit, MI, have been organized on-line due to pandemic conditions.