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PEIK is dedicated to providing both aspiring and practicing engineers the innovative education and training they need for the 21st century power engineering workforce.
We very much appreciate your friendship, collaboration, and continued support for the program throughout another year that had its own challenges. As we look back at the many achievements featured on the PEIK website news, and covered by Twitter and LinkedIn posts, we are also optimistic for further progress in 2022.
Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year!
Donovin Lewis has been awarded the Otis A. Singletary Graduate Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year based on both academic and extracurricular achievements. This award, which is the highest attainable graduate fellowship offered by the University of Kentucky Graduate School, is provided in honor of the late former UK President Otis A. Singletary. Recently, Donovin graduated with a BS in EE, having earned a 4.0 GPA, and the PEIK Certificate, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, and led the electrical engineering component of the University of Kentucky Solar Car Team to win the Formula Sun Grand Prix national competition. Donovin, who was also a USP student, has now started the PhD program at UK where he continues to be advised by Professor Dan M. Ionel, L. Stanley Pigman Chair in Power and PEIK Director.
We are very proud of Donovin’s many achievements and we wish him continued success! See the full story at https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/news
Rosemary Alden received the 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting Undergraduate Student Poster Award - Second Prize. Recently, she graduated with a BS in EE and the PEIK Certificate, and received a most prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Rosemary, who is also an USP student, has now has started the PhD program at UK, where she continues to be advised by Professor Dan M. Ionel, L. Stanley Pigman Chair in Power and PEIK Director.
We are very proud of Rosemary’s many achievements and we wish her continued success! See the full story at
https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/news
05/18/2021
We are very proud of Dr. Damien Lawhorn for completing his NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration KY Graduate Fellowship research and successfully defending his PhD dissertation under the direction of Dr. Dan M. Ionel. The University of Kentucky PhD committee included Drs. Aaron Cramer, Gabe Dadi, James Lumpp, and Joe Sottile. We wish Damien continued success in his future career and on projects with Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Further details are available at https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/news
04/01/2021
We invite you to read our annual report for 2020, a year which marked PEIK’s 10th Anniversary.
The report can be viewed and downloaded at https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/power-and-energy-institute-kentucky/peik-annual-report
03/30/2021
PEIK will host an Online Distinguished Speaker Seminar featuring Aron Patrick, Manager of Technology Research and Analysis at LG&E and KU. Mr. Patrick will discuss Kentucky's clean energy successes, opportunities, and challenges.
📅: Wednesday, April 7th
⏰: 2:00pm
Registration information and details: https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/events/online-seminar-opportunities
12/18/2020
We had an excellent 2020, as featured in the news posted throughout the year on our website. We have adapted to new conditions, made great progress in teaching, research, and outreach, and received many group and individual awards and recognitions, including the very recently announced Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet 2020 Community Environmental Luminary Award.
We would also like to take this opportunity to convey heartfelt thanks for your continued strong support of the program. We look forward optimistically to 2021 and to celebrating in person the 10th anniversary of PEIK, an event which we had to postpone due to the pandemic. Please continue to follow our main news on the PEIK website. https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/news
Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year!
12/15/2020
PEIK and KIAC are honored to receive the Community Environmental Luminary Award from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet. The award is given in recognition of outstanding achievements in education and outreach. PEIK has issued hundreds of undergraduate and graduate certificates in power and energy within the University of Kentucky College of Engineering. KIAC provides manufacturing plant energy assessments entirely free of charge and makes recommendations for potential savings.
See news at https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/news
12/03/2020
Researchers from the SPARK group within PEIK and from LG&E and KU have recently received from the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), Renewable Energy Systems Committee, a Transactions Paper Award - Third Prize. Most recent research by the group has been published in the widely circulated IEEE Access. The publications are reflective of the strong collaboration on timely topics of new technologies for renewable energy generation and storage in the electric power systems.
See full story at https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/news
Authors' versions of the technical papers are available at http://sparklab.engr.uky.edu/publications
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09/03/2020
We are proud to announce that Rosemary Alden received a Best Poster Award at the 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
Rosemary is an EE and PEIK University Scholars student, who started her BS studies at UK in 2017 and her research in electric power engineering in the SPARK Lab in 2018 being advised by Dr. Dan M. Ionel. After the BS graduation, she plans to continue for Ph.D. studies at the University of Kentucky
See the full story at https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/news.
07/31/2020
07/31/2020
PEIK Reports Success with Many Certificates Issued and Scholarships Awarded. See details at https://engr.uky.edu/power/news
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07/09/2020
PEIK has expanded research collaboration with our very large regional utility, LG&E and KU, on topics of , and . Aron Patrick serves as industrial project lead and Dan M. Ionel as academic PI.
See the full story here: https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/news
SPARK and PEIK researchers reported at the IEEE ITEC 2020 conference on projects for the power system integration of EVs and optimal design of electric aircrafts sponsored by DOE and NASA, respectively.
See https://www.engr.uky.edu/power/news and http://sparklab.engr.uky.edu/publications
06/23/2020
Excellent initiative from our partners LG&E and KU!
Kentucky EEC on Twitter “ is working with our energy partners to support our winged friends. is installing 132 acres at solar facilities to support habitat & lower maintenance costs. Photos @ Middletown, created by Round Stone Seed. ”
PEIK affiliated SPARK Lab expands research on electric machines and drives with QM Power. For more info visit https://engr.uky.edu/power/news
Congratulations to Simone Silvestri, Computer Science and PEIK Faculty, on receiving the prestigious NSF CAREER award! Learn more at https://engr.uky.edu/power/news
Exciting news about PEIK and ECE students starting a new IEEE PES and IAS joint chapter at UK!
https://engr.uky.edu/power/news
02/21/2020
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