Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• System-level condition monitoring, diagnostics, prognosis, and intelligent performance management
• Custom prototype and test-bed development
• Development of energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly systems
• Advanced power electronics and electrical motor drives
• Renewable energy conversion, control, and integration with smart grid
• Solar and wind energy technologies, hybrid, electric, and plugged-in vehicles
• Engineering education

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SCHOLARLY AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

• Awarded competitive research grant by WKU's Research & Creative Activities Program (RCAP), 2015
• Awarded summer research internship grant by Gatton Academy of Mathematics and science in Kentucky, 2015
• Nominated for "Faculty Award in Research" for the Ogden College of Sciences and Engineering, 2014
• Awarded the Faculty-Undergraduate Student Engagement (FUSE) Grant, WKU, 2014
• Awarded KY NSF-EPSCoR-REG for a proposal on A New Generation of Energy-Efficient and Eco-Friendly Appliances (E2 Appliances), WKU, 2014
• Served as PI for the DOE-NSF sub-award on revitalizing power curriculum led by University of Minnesota, 2013-2014
• Created a world-class research lab for the development of energy-efficient systems, power electronics, and motor drives, 2012-present
• Engaged actively 32 undergraduate students, one master student, and one post-doctoral researcher on energy-related projects in the Energy Systems Lab, 2012-2014
• Initiated, supervised, and successfully graduated the first graduate student at the Dept. of Engineering under the master program at the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dec. 2013
• Developed new research capabilities in lab on real-time simulation, data acquisition, control, 2014
• Advised first graduate student with engineering thesis, Kurt Woods, who was nominated for both Best Master Thesis Award and Minton Award at the university level, WKU, 2013
• Presented total of 27 posters on research projects in WKU Engineering Expositions, 2012-2015

HONORS AND AWARDS RECEIVED BY STUDENTS

• Moly Shircliff, "Invited Speaker" to 2015 Kentucky EPSCoR Annual Conference, “Performance Prediction of Drying Process in Clothes Dryers Using a Multi-physics Simulation Environment,” May 2015
• Molly Shircliff, "Best Presentation Award": Undergraduate Research Conference, Engineering Session, Spring 2015
• Kurt Woods (Master student), Nominee for "Ogden College Outstanding Graduate Student Award,," by Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, WKU, Spring 2014
• Kurt Woods (Master student), Nominee for “John D. Minton Graduate Student Award,” by Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, WKU, Spring 2014