Past News and Events
Working on the G&W project during the pandemic. | Nov 2020 
Presentation by Dr. Graber on “EDISON: A New Generation DC Circuit Breaker” at CIGRE Secession 48 Paper 0012 | Aug 2020 
New Graduate Research Assistant Amanda | Aug 2020 
Lukas Graber has been appointed as a Sutterfield Family Junior Professor | July 2020 
Chunmeng Xu heads out to a summer internship in ABB Corporate Research Center | May 2020 
Jia Passed his Ph.D. Proposal Exam (Virtual-Proposal) | Apr 2020 
Welcome, Zhiyang Jin! The new Research Engineer at PDL | Feb 2020 
ARPA-e EDISON Visit 
“Electric Contact Material Selection for Medium and High Voltage DC Circuit Breakers ” has been published in an Springer journal of “Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials” | Feb 2020 
Jia and Tushar Receive IEEE DEIS Graduate Student Fellowships | Jan 2020 
Spring 2020 Social at The Roof of Ponce City Market | Jan 2020 
Chunmeng passed her Ph.D. Proposal Exam | Nov 11, 2019 
Red Top Mountain Hiking | Nov 2019 
PDL attended 2019 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting held in Atlanta, GA | Aug 2019 
Welcome, new Graduate Research Asistants Ning, Jeong Ho, and Alfonso | Aug 2019 
New journal paper on thermosyphon bushing | July 2019 
Spring 2019 Social at Pijiu Belly 
Dr. Lukas has been honored with CTL award | Oct 2018 
Summer research in ETH Zurich with ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship (Cow on Mount Titlis) | Aug 2018 
ECE Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award honored Chunmeng Xu’s teaching assistantship | Apr 2018 
PDL attended 2018 Joint PDL-CAPS Workshop held in Tallahassee, FL | November 2018 
Fall 2018 Social at Providence Canyon State Park 
Congratulations to Dr. Chanyeop Park on his successful graduation and promotion to Post-doctoral scholar! | April 2018 
Check out the “PhD hat” that PDL guys prepared for Dr. Chanyeop Park, a tradition brought by Dr. Lukas Graber from his alma mater! | April 2018 
PDL group visited MagLab | Nov 2017 
Close collaboration between PhD students and undergraduate students in various research projects | Sep 2017 
Dr. Lukas Graber showcased research projects to undergraduates in ECE RUSH | Aug 2017 
Fall 2017 Social at Liam’s Restaurant 
High Voltage Engineering class visited NEETRAC for course labs March 2017 
Welcome Yunbo Tian to PDL as a visiting PhD student | January 2017