2022
- Prof. Maksimovic is the recipient of the R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award for contributions to modeling and analysis of digitally controlled power converters.
- New project: Modeling and Control of Resonant Inverters, a project sponsored by Eximis Surgical.
- New project: Scalable Modular MVAC-to-DC Architecture, a collaboration project sponsored by Electric Hydrogen.
- New project: Building Pandemic Resilience for Native American Communities, Flexible Air-Quality Control System, a project sponsored by NIST Rapid Assistance (for) Coronavirus Economic Response (RACER) program through PowerAmerica, a collaboration with Prof. Shelly Miller from CU-Boulder Mechanical Engineering.
- Congratulations to Branko Majmunovic who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Optimization of active-bridge-based modular power converters.
2021
- New project: Data-Driven Design Automation Techniques for High-Performance Power Conversion Systems, a project sponsored by Lockheed Martin.
- New Project: Gallium Nitride Power Amplifier Design, Test, & Advanced Packaging for High-Performance, collaboration with Prof. Zoya Popovic and Prof. Taylor Barton, including developments of monolithic GaN high-performance switch-mode converters.
- Congratulations to Vivek Sankaranarayanan who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Control Strategies for Efficiency Optimization of Composite Converters
- Congratulations to Yucheng Gao who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Design and Optimization of a 100 kW Composite Converter for Electric Vehicle Drivetrain
- Congratulations to Satyaki Mukherjee who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Wide Range DC-DC Power Conversion Systems - Architectures, Circuits and Components
- Congratulations to Ph.D. students Skye Reese and Matthew Bossart who won NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!
- Congratulations to Kyle Goodrick who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Systematic Optimization of DC Distribution Architectures
- New project: Synthesis of Extreme Efficiency Monolithic Power Converters, a project sponsored by Texas Instruments.
2020
- Prof. Maksimovic is the recipient of the 2020 College of Engineering Research Award.
- Congratulations to Jianglin Zhu who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Transformerless Stacked Active Bridge Converters: Analysis, Synthesis and Design
- New project: We are a part of the ASPIRE - Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification, a new NSF Engineering Research Center. Here is the CU-Boulder announcement.
- A Fireside Chat with Dragan Maksimovic has been posted as an IEEE Power Electronics Society Podcast
- The 3rd edition of the Fundamentals of Power Electronics is out.