EE researcher Ben Liao, working with Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, has received the Best Presentation Award at the 2024 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) – a student-directed power and energy conference held annually at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The PECI Best Presentation Award is determined both by conference directors and input from attendees.
Ben received the Best Presentation Award for his work on designing and building a high-power, electronically-controlled, modular resistive load bank. The proposed design overcomes testing limitations in commercial solutions when characterizing state-of-the-art converters. The architecture can easily be extended and modified to suit various other applications where an electronically-controlled resistive load is desired. For more information, please consult the full paper, available at this link.
