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!
Category: Fun
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.
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.
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.
Bali wins Best Presentation Award at APEC 2024 in Long Beach, CA
AJ Bali won a best presentation award for his talk titled “A 7-Level Interleaved Hybrid Active Neutral Point Clamped Converter for High-Frequency Low-Inductance Motors” at the 2024 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC).