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Power and Energy Faculty Spark New Innovation in Several Fields

Written by Ryley McGinnis, Engineering Communications The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has powerhouse research and teaching faculty. Still, a group of faculty members focused on power and energy research know that their potential can only be multiplied by coming together.                Professors Ali Bazzi, Sung Yeul Park, Zongjie Wang, Yang Cao, Junbo Zhao, and […]

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Dr. Ali Bazzi receives ONR DURIP Award to Build a Unique Testbed for Naval Propulsion Drives Research

By Ben Donohue & Olivia Ortegon  Each year, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awards funds for research in higher education through its Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). In 2018, Dr. Ali Bazzi, from UConn’s Center for Clean Energy Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering department, received a DURIP award for his project, “High-voltage […]

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PEARL Laboratory at the University of Connecticut

Dr. Ali Bazzi’s Power Electronics & Drives Advanced Research Laboratory (PEARL) is part of the Center for Clean Energy Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. The main research focus is on power electronics applications in electric motor drives, renewable energy systems, micro-grids, and the smart grid. Electric drives […]

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Zhang and His Students Look To Advance Power Systems Into The Future

Over 350 million people in the United States depend on the reliability and consistency of the 450,000 miles of high-voltage lines that form the U.S. power grid to do important daily tasks. With stronger weather events and an increasing number of cyber-attacks, reliable safeguards and technologies are needed to protect this very important utility. The […]

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