Faculty
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Research Highlight: Yilu Liu
Yilu Liu, Governor’s Chair for Electric Power Grids and Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named a newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Liu was elected “for her innovations in electric power grid monitoring, situational awareness, and dynamic modeling,” according to…
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Research Highlight: Thanos Papanicolaou
Thanos Papanicolaou’s research is informing farmers and improving agricultural techniques designed to preserve and restore soil organic carbon (SOC) for healthier soil. Carbon is essential to soil, but it is easily depleted from intensively managed landscapes. Papanicolaou’s research focuses on ground slope and its relationship to concentrations of carbon in the soil from organic sources.…
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Research Highlight: Fred Wang
Wang’s research is aimed at avoiding some of those costs by utilizing existing intelligent switches and fast communication links in smart grids, improving the economic benefits and reliability of the system, and by using open source software and general purpose hardware to reduce controller and deployment cost.
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Research Highlight: Chuck Melcher
Scintillators are materials that emit light when in the presence of radiation, which makes them a critical component in the detectors used to track potentially illegal transport of radioactive materials.
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Sustainability Efforts Net Hathaway Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Jon Hathaway, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, was selected by the NSF for an Early CAREER Award.
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Research Into Power Systems Nets UT’s Sun NSF CAREER Award
Kai Sun’s research Into power systems nets the electrical engineering and computer science associate professor an NSF CAREER Award.
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National Science Foundation Selects Trinh for CAREER Award
Cong Trinh, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was selected by the NSF for an Early CAREER Award.
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Research Highlight: Ramki Kalyanaraman and Gerd Duscher
This technology would not only help individuals be more energy independent, but would enable scaling up of light-energy-harvesting products to carpets, curtains, tents, and even textile-based solar farms.
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Research Highlight: Claudia Rawn
In 2011, Rawn and her research team won an NSF award for the Research and Instructional Strategies for Engineering Retention (RISER) program. Rawn’s team was selected for its work with female and diverse students. The RISER program supports the goal of NSF’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)—to recruit and retain students…