Faculty in the Center for Renewable Energy research applications in transportation, power systems, security and safeguards.  Transportation applications including railroads, bridges, and tunnels with focus on sensing, measurement, monitoring and control are part of our civil engineering research. Applications in the power systems with focus on power electronics, control stability and dynamics of power systems, and renewable energy modeling and integration are part of our electrical engineering research. Detector response characterization for nuclear security and safeguards applications, radiation shielding analysis are part of our chemical engineering research.

Research Highlight

Asst. Prof. Yuzhang Lin of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was recently awarded a five-year, $500,000 faculty early-career development (CAREER) grant by the National Science Foundation to conduct a study that will help better predict and visualize power distribution capacity and consumers’ power demand in real time. Read the article: Electrical Engineering Professor Wins $500K NSF CAREER Award.

  • The Integrated Nuclear Security and Safeguards Laboratory aims to promote the development of research, education and training tools that support a wide range of global nuclear security and safeguards objectives, including security and resilience of the power grid.
  • The Center for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (SCyPS) works to develop high-impact solutions to key challenges in heterogeneous distributed cyber-physical systems that support emerging smart society, data-centric applications. By enhancing capabilities, protecting data and evaluating and optimizing technologies, SCyPS will support cyber-physical system reliability and scalability, improving resource utilization, and guaranteeing system security and privacy.

  • Vinod Vokkarane - design, analysis, and modeling of architectures, protocols, and algorithms for ultra-high speed networks, such as optical networks, grid/cloud networks, and big-data networks; cyber-physical systems, network optimization, reliability, smart grids, green networking
  • Tingshu Hu - control systems with saturation, robust control and optimization techniques, control applications to mechanical systems, control applications to power and energy systems, battery modeling