Jan ’25 Awards & Recognitions

Student Recognitions

Congrats to all of our students for their achievements over these past few months! Here are a few to note:

Congrats to Our Fall & Winter Grads!

Undergrads:

Matthew Backlund

Braden Cook

Hamilton Hardy

Taryn Nielson

Wiliam Potter

Max Ramsdell

Stockton Smith

Nate Stott

Garrett Tilt

Master’s:

Moneeba Gulzar

Sara Shaffer

Kaylie N. Maddux

Craig A. Chambers

PhD:

Ricardo Chahine

Faculty & Staff Recognitions

UCC AWARDS

On October 3, Utah Clean Cities (UCC) celebrated the company’s 30th year anniversary with a video highlighting the former founders of the company, current projects underway, as well as many of the pivotal stakeholders that contribute to the company’s mission and goals. Several of our ASPIRE Staff and Faculty were highlighted.

We’d like to congratulate Fawn Groves, Education Specialist at ASPIRE Research Center, for receiving the “Power in Climate Action” award!

Congratulations to Dr. Masood Parvania, ASPIRE Campus Director for the University of Utah, for receiving the “Power of Innovation” award!

Dr. Regan Zane and the ASPIRE team were given an additional “Power of Innovation” award! Congratulations!

Learn More About UCC’s 30th Anniversary and Award Winners

Researchers Experience Great Success at the IEEE ECCC 2024 Event

Group Photo of ASPIRE students, staff, and faculty who were honored at the IEEE ECCE conference in October 2024.

We are excited to announce the success of our Researchers at the IEEE ECCC 2024 event. Congratulations to the faculty, staff, students, and alumni who were awarded for their innovative contributions towards improving technologies in Energy and Transporation.

We’d like to recognize Marium Rasheed, Craig Simpson, Hongjie Wang, and Regan Zane for their publication, “Multi-mode Control of the Energy Transfer Unit in Capacitively-coupled Hybrid Battery Packs for Enhanced Auxiliary DC Bus Regulation”, which was awarded the 2024 IEEE IAS Transporation Systems Committe (TSC) Second Prize Paper Award.

Marium Rasheed, Craig Simpson, Hongjie Wang, and Regan Zane (not pictured) at the October 2024 IEEE ECCE conference receiving the 2024 IEEE IAS Transporation Systems Committe (TSC) Second Prize Paper Award.

Shubhangi Gurudiwan presenting at the IEEE ECCE October 2024 conference.

For being awarded the Best Presentation Award from the ECCE Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee, we’d like to celebrate Shubhangi Gurudiwan, Aditya Zade, Hongjie Wang, and Regan Zane. Their award-winning presentation is entitled “Nonlinear Capacitance-based Accurate ZVS Analysis for Full-Bridge T-Type-based Resonant Converters”.

Success with ASPIRE doesn’t stop with graduation. We also celebrate the success of Marium Rasheed for her thesis, “Architectural Design of Hybrid Battery Energy Storage Systems with Integrated Active Balancing and Reconditioning Control”. With her presentation, she was named one of five 2024 IEEE PELS Ph. D. Thesis Talk (P3 Talk) Winners.

We couldn’t be prouder of our team’s success!

Paul Bradley at the October 2024 IEEE ECCE event.

ASPIRE Now Boasts 2 IEEE Fellows!

We are proud to announce that two of our members have been recognized for their significant contributions to engineering and innovation, and they have been elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow.

Congratulations to:

Regan Zane, Center Director

For contributions to modular power conversion in energy harvesting, lighting, and electrified transportation systems.

Dionysios Aliprantis, Faculty

For contributions to rotating electric machine modeling and distributed energy resources.

This recognition reflects their dedication to and impact on the advancement of electrified technologies. We are thrilled to have such distinguished leaders on our team!