Graduate Students
Evan Sharafuddin, a first-year electrical engineering PhD student, has been selected as the recipient of the Dwight E. and Jessica D. Ryland Graduate Fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year who is pursuing wind turbine control research.
Beginning fall 2025, the University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering is excited to announce that the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MS-EE) will be officially renamed the Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (MS-ECE).
Marena Trujillo has earned a Graduate Research Fellowship through the National Science Foundation for her promising research in power system stability and dynamics.
Michelle Pirrone has won a prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for her promising research in microwave engineering and machine learning.
To help our students, alumni and industry friends keep pace with technology trends – including the Internet of Things – the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering has expanded its options in embedded systems design, starting in fall 2015.
OptiBit's technology helps data centers save 10% on energy use while also increasing performance.
Afridi and his team have less than a year to build a power inverter that is at least 10 times smaller than the current picnic cooler-sized inverters commonly used in photovoltaic solar power systems and other green energy applications.
First-year PhD student Saad Pervaiz recently beat out nine students from around the world to take home the Best Demo Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' 2014 Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) in