Professors Alan Mantooth and Jing Yang recognized as campus leaders in research funding
The University of Arkansas recently honored its “Top 15 in 2015” class of research award recipients in a ceremony Tuesday in Sturgis Hall at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House. The offices of the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs and vice provost for...
Protecting the Grid by Bolstering Cybersecurity
When 225,000 Ukrainians lost electric power in late December 2015, the failure marked one of the first confirmed cyber attacks to result in outages combined with physical impact. During the attack, multiple hackers orchestrated synchronized, coordinated intrusions,...
Fayetteville Ranked as 3rd Best Place to Live in the U.S.
Fayetteville has been growing more and more each year and with growth comes attention. The 2016 U.S News and World Report ranked the best places to live in the U.S. and Fayetteville, Arkansas came in third on the list.
Fayetteville Ranked as 3rd Best Place to Live in the U.S.
Fayetteville has been growing more and more each year and with growth comes attention. The 2016 U.S News and World Report ranked the best places to live in the U.S. and Fayetteville, Arkansas came in third on the list. The report based out of Washington, D.C. and...
NSF Grant Will Help Researchers Change Power for Data Centers from AC to DC
Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas' Center for Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronics Systems, or GRAPES, have received $300,000 – part of a $1.1 million grant to Binghamton University – from the National Science Foundation to help...
Mantooth Named Arkansas Research Alliance Fellow
On Dec. 3, the Arkansas Research Alliance announced that Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering and holder of the Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Mixed-Signal IC Design and CAD, was one of its five inaugural fellows. The ARA Fellows...
GRAPES Center Receives Innovative Managing Director Grant
The NSF Center of Excellence in GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) received a $200,000 Innovative Managing Director Grant from the National Science Foundation.
APEI Powers Into R&D 100 for Second Time
For the second time in the company’s history, Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc. has been included in R&D Magazine’s list of the world’s top 100 technological product innovations. The R&D 100 awards — known as the “Oscars of Innovation” — have...
Researchers Develop Device to Mitigate Blackouts, Prevent Equipment Damage
A local power failure in Ohio ten years ago caused a series of cascading power failures that resulted in a massive blackout that affected 50 million people and caused billions of dollars in damage and lost revenue.
GRAPES Executive Director Discusses the Role of NCREPT in UA Research at SEC Symposium in February
Dr. Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering, talks about the University’s National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission.
How to Save the Electrical Grid
Extreme storms such as Hurricane Sandy have pushed the U.S. electrical grid to its breaking point. The technology exists to keep the lights on—we just need to implement it.
Mantooth Elected IEEE Power Electronics Society Vice President of Operations
Alan Mantooth, a Distinguished Professor in the department of electrical engineering, was elected as the 2013-2014 vice president of operations for the Power Electronics Society in November. The Power Electronics Society is part of the Institute for Electrical and...