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GRAPES Fall 2016 Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting

Getting Around Our GRAPES Fall 2016 Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting will be held on November 10-11, 2016 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. All GRAPES IAB members, faculty and students are invited to attend. Guests are invited to attend but will be...

UW-Milwaukee is developing a microgrid concept to power homes

TMJ-4 news in Milwaukee covered Rob Cuzner's development of a microgrid concept. Click the link below to see the full coverage. http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/uw-milwaukee-studies-microgrid-technology

Rick Blum speaking @ NIST event

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Internet Attack Prompts Warning to Utilities

On Friday, Oct. 21, a Distributed Denial of service (DDos) attack against the Dyn Managed Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure occurred, which shut down some popular web-based media systems. Such attacks are escalating, according to numerous sources, and this was...

SECURITY: ‘This attack was different’ — cyberthreat draws utility warnings

Swarms of hacked, internet-connected devices have menaced core parts of the web and put utilities on edge. On Friday, millions of Americans awoke to find they couldn’t access many popular websites, including Twitter, Spotify and Github. Hackers had overwhelmed the...

GRAPES Research Published in 2016 NSF I/UCRC Tech Breakthrough Compendium

GRAPES research project, Power Module Layout Synthesis (PowerSynth) was selected to be published in the 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry & University Cooperative research Center (I/UCRC) Tech Breakthrough Compendium. The compendium catalogues...

GRAPES Hosts Spring 2016 Industrial Advisory Board Meeting

The NSF Center for GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) in the Department of Electrical Engineering hosted its Spring 2016 Industrial Advisory Board meeting on May 23-25 in Columbia, South Carolina. Read more...

Presentations from GRAPES Meeting – May 23-25, 2016

Below is the agenda for Tuesday with links to each presentation in the agenda. For a complete agenda, please click here. ___________________________________ Tuesday, May 24, 2016, Inn at USC 7:30 AM 8:00 AM Registration 8:00 AM 8:15 AM Introductions/Welcome Alan...

GRAPES Student, Atanu Dutta, Receives Award

Atanu Dutta (left) tied for second place for the presentation of his paper, "Design of a Low Inductance Power Module Based on Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic." Dutta's paper came out of the work he has been performing for his dissertation research under the...