Alleyne Research Group

With the kick off late last week, POETS is officially underway. The ERC has received a lot of attention from the media, a few of the news stories can be found below. News-Gazette Front Page Story CBS Coverage

Congratulations to Justin Koeln who passed his preliminary exam!

Herschel has passed his qualifying exam and is officially a Ph.D. Candidate!

The ARG welcomes Malia Kawamura from Dartmouth College and Oyuna Angatkina from the Tomsk Polytechnic University.

ARG Member’s Bryan Keating, Ashley Armstrong, and Spencer Kieffer have begun an outreach program to get people excited/educated about controls engineering. Even MechSE is taking notice! ARG at the Farmer’s Market

The ARG welcomes Nathan Weir from Sandia National Laboratory and Pamela Tannous from the Lebanese American University.

Dr. Alleyne and UIUC have been selected by the NSF to lead a new Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS).  More information at: http://poets-erc.org/press-release/.

Herschel Pangborn, Katherine Amber, and Lindsey Gonzales deposit their Master’s theses. Congrats!

ARG welcomes Ashley Armstrong from Notre Dame, Xavier Moya from Santa Clara University, and Spencer Kieffer from Notre Dame.

Herschel Pangborn was awarded a 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for his proposed work with energy management for vehicle systems.