Rod Bayliss III, a fifth-year PhD student advised by Dr. Robert Pilawa-Podgusrki, won a 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for his role as a GSI in the inaugural offering of EE 213B, Power Electronics Design, taught by Dr. Jessica Boles. This award honors UC Berkeley GSIs each year for their outstanding work in teaching on the Berkeley campus. The semester before the class was offered, Rod designed and tested a custom buck converter for the class. The students used this board to create their own buck converters, learning practical power converter design and testing skills.
