Andrew Freeman and William Vavrik were awarded the Grainger Power Engineering Award for 2025. They joined an excellent class of undergraduate and graduate UIUC power engineering students for a night of celebration with Power and Energy faculty and Grainger College of Engineering leadership. Congratulations!
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SPG Joins SRG and Abbott Power Plant for Successful Girl Power Event
Stillwell Power Group researchers William Vavrik, Aria Delmar, and Andrew Freeman volunteered at the Girl Power Event, hosted by the Stillwell Research Group and Abbott Power Plant. More than 40 Girl Scouts from Illinois and Indiana learned about energy, power generation, and trade skills (welding!!!) from Abbott staff and UIUC graduate students. Huge thanks to […]

Joint Stillwell Group Outing Another Perfect 10
The Stillwell Power Group joined the Stillwell Research Group in supporting our Illini Men’s Gymnastic team in their victory over Nebraska.
Dr. Stillwell in the news
Dr. Stillwell had a chance to discuss the Illinois electricity grid mix with CBS News with respect to the CTA. Opinions and perspective are his own. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cta-trains-power-renewable-sources
Delmar Receives Qualcomm Graduate Award!
Stillwell Power Group Climbs to New Heights at Urbana Boulders
The SPG met over Finals Week in Fall of 2024 to blow off some steam at Urbana Boulders . Fun was had, and no one was injured.

SPG presents at CSL Compute Energy Nexus Workshop
The Stillwell Power Group participated in the UIUC Coordinated Science Laboratory Compute Energy Nexus Workshop. The workshop brought together internal and external experts to discuss two major societal, research and technology-specific topics: 1) Data Centers and Energy Optimization, and 2) Data Centers and Smart Grid. Dr. Stillwell gave a talk titled: Point-of-Load Converters: Status and Future […]

Stillwell Groups Support Illini Volleyball
The Stillwell Power Group joined the Stillwell Research Group in supporting the Illini Volleyball Team in their match against Indiana. The Illini emerged victorious with a 3-0 victory!

COMPEL 2024 a Success!
Aria Delmar presented “Control and Modeling of Current-Sourced Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Converters with Dynamic Loads” at the 2024 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) conference in Lahore, Pakistan. First author Will Vavrick was unable to attend, but the paper and presentation received excellent feedback.

Girl Power 2024 a shockingly good time!
SPG researchers Nicole Stokowski and AJ Bali volunteered for the Abbott Power Plant Girl Power event to teach K-12 Girl Scouts about power and electricity.