July 12th, 2024
A group of ECE faculty with Dr. Shuhui Li as the PI and Drs. Yang-Ki Hong and Qianzhi Zhang as co-PIs received a National Science Foundation award titled “RAISE: CET: Rare-Earth-Free Magnet and AI-Driven Control for Power Generation, transmission, and Grid Integration of Offshore Wind”. The main objectives of this project are to advance offshore […]
April 11th, 2024
Dr. Shunqiao Sun received the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, for the project entitled, “CAREER: Towards Fundamentals of Adaptive, Collaborative and Intelligent Radar Sensing and Perception”. Automotive radar imaging represents a pressing technological need in perception for automotive active safety and autonomous driving. Automotive radar operating at millimeter-wave frequencies (typically around 77 GHz) […]
October 24th, 2023
Electric vehicles batteries will find a second life in EV charging stations under a project led by The University of Alabama. With $4 million in support from the United States Department of Energy, UA is partnering with Alabama Power and Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc. to develop and demonstrate ways to use older EV batteries, extending […]
September 26th, 2023
NSF has awarded a grant titled “PFI-RP: Developing Market-Ready Affordable Robotic Lower-Limb Prostheses through Unified Joint Actuator Design and AI-Enhanced Multi-Modal Interactive Control” to Professors Xiangrong Shen (PI, Mechanical Engineering), Fei Hu and Edward Sazonov (co-PIs, Electrical and Computer Engineering) The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation – Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) project is […]