The Integrator 2024–2025
Read the latest issue of The Integrator, UW ECE’s flagship annual magazine highlighting the Department’s extraordinary faculty and student research, achievements, alumni stories, special events and more from this past year!
Overview
Power and Energy Systems research at UW ECE includes interdisciplinary work at all energy scales, ranging from nanowatts to gigawatts. Our faculty are active in smart grid, integration of renewable energy sources, grid security, energy economics, and solar and electromagnetic energy harvesting. UW ECE faculty are leaders in the Clean Energy Institute and work with local utilities and grid systems operators.
Topics
Power Systems
Faculty: Daniel Kirschen, Baosen Zhang
Power Electronics
Faculty: Alex Mamishev, Jungwon Choi
Renewable Energy
Faculty: Daniel Kirschen, Baosen Zhang, Alex Mamishev, Jungwon Choi
Photovoltaics and Energy Harvesting
Faculty: Scott T. Dunham, Joshua Smith
Latest News
UW ECE is Hiring!
UW ECE is inviting applications for tenure-track associate and assistant professor positions.
UW ECE welcomes six new faculty members
Beginning this fall and extending through autumn quarter 2025, UW ECE is welcoming six new faculty members who will bring a wide breadth of knowledge and technical expertise to the Department.
New textbook provides a fresh perspective on modern power systems
This fall, a new textbook by UW ECE Professor Daniel Kirschen will be introduced into the Department's power and energy systems undergraduate curriculum.
June Lukuyu — pushing engineering boundaries to improve energy systems in underserved communities
UW ECE Assistant Professor June Lukuyu blends technological innovation and social development to engineer sustainable, inclusive, and integrated energy systems and technologies for people in underserved communities around the world.
Congratulations to the 2024 UW ECE Awards recipients!
The UW ECE Awards recognize exceptional teaching, research, and entrepreneurship efforts in the Department as well as outstanding mentorship, student impact, and collaborative work.
Researchers
Research Labs
- Intelligent Systems Lab
- Renewable Energy Analysis (REAL) Lab
- Nanotechnology Modeling Laboratory
- Sensor Systems Lab
- Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL)
Latest Projects
Representative Publications
- Decentralized interleaving of parallel-connected buck converters
- A multilevel DC to three-phase AC architecture for photovoltaic power plants
- Using Battery Storage for Peak Shaving and Frequency Regulation: Joint Optimization for Superlinear Gains
- Model-Free Renewable Scenario Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks
- Real-Time Prediction of the Duration of Distribution System Outages
- Sharing Energy Storage Between Transmission and Distribution