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 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 supervision of Simon Ang, professor of electrical engineering and director of the U of A’s High Density Electronic Center (HiDEC).
2016 Lehigh University Awards
Last October, materials science held its 125 year celebration. Janie (with the help of other MSE staff members) was instrumental in the planning and execution of this important event. It was her leadership that made this an unqualified success. Also, during the most...
College of Engineering Celebrates Outstanding Faculty
On Wednesday, April 28, the College of Engineering held its annual faculty awards reception at University House. Five awards were given at the event.
GRAPES Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting-Spring 2016
Registration information on our GRAPES Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting – Spring 2016.
Open to members and invited guests.
For more information contact T.A. Walton, tawalton@uark.edu, 479-575-4487.
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.