PowerAmerica-Affiliated Students

Through its member universities, PowerAmerica is affiliated with a talented pool of undergraduate and graduate students who represent the best and brightest of the future power electronics workforce. These students, who already work with wide bandgap applications, are available for internships and employment. Please contact them directly.

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Rachit Agarwal

School/year: Florida State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Summer, 2021
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Design and Optimization of Modular Converters - Magnetics design, hardware design, Modulation and Control of Isolated Modular DC-DC converter topologies for MVDC applications.
Areas of Expertise: Isolated dc-dc converters; high frequency transformer design and optimization

Aditi Agarwal

School/year: North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Spring 2021
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Concentration: SiC Device Design and Fabrication
PowerAmerica Project: Design and testing of 3.3 kV SiC Planar-Gate Power JBSFETs fabricated at commercial foundry SiCamore Semi; Design and testing of 1.2 kV SiC Trench-Gate Power MOSFETs with P+ Shielding Region at Trench Bottom fabricated at commercial foundry X-FAB; Design and testing of 1.2 kV SiC Shielded Trench Gate Power MOSFETs fabricated at commercial foundry X-FAB; Design and testing of 600 V and 1700 V Planar-Gate Power Devices fabricated at commercial foundry X-FAB
Areas of Expertise: SiC Device Design, Semiconductor Fabrication, Wide Band Gap Power Device Simulation and Optimization, Wafer-level testing, Package-level Testing

Erick Aponte

School/year: North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Spring, 2021
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Next Generation EV Fast Charger - Develop a 10kV medium voltage direct connected, SiC based 350kW electrical vehicle fast charger.
Areas of Expertise: Electric vehicle, DC fast charger, device characterization, silicon carbide, power electronics

Jared Baxter

School/year: The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Spring, 2021
Major: Energy Science and Engineering
Concentration: Energy Conversion and Storage
PowerAmerica Project: Unified Design Framework for Power Electronics - Development of a tool that streamlines the design process of power converters through advanced analysis, simulation, and optimization.
Areas of Expertise: Power Converter Analysis, Simulation, and Optimization

Yuling Cao

School/year: Virginia Tech, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: 2024
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: High Density Bidirectional Dc-Dc Charger for Hybrid Electric Propulsion System - A 18kW High Density Bidirectional SiC/GaN based Soft-switched Dc-Dc Charger for Hybrid Electric Propulsion System
Areas of Expertise: DC/DC Converter Design

Timothy Chen

School/year: North Carolina State University, Junior
Graduate/Undergraduate: Undergraduate
Major: Mechanical Engineering
PowerAmerica Project: Thermal Resistance Circular Chart - The objective is to create a table of thermal resistances based on finite element analysis simulations, so that electronic package designers can compare the thermal capabilities of different material stackups.
Areas of Expertise: Finite Element Analysis

Tzu-Hsuan Cheng

School/year: North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Summer 2022
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Concentration: Power IC Packaging
PowerAmerica Project: Development of 3.3 kV-capable, open-source, low cost packaging solution for SiC transistor and diode testing
Areas of Expertise: Power IC Packaging Design and Process Development, Mechanical Reliability, Failure Analysis, Heat Transfer, Finite Element Modeling

Spencer Cochran

School/year: The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: 2021
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Gan-based Synchronous Rectifier for 6.78 MhZ - Design, prototyping, modeling and control of a 6.78 MhZ wireless power transfer rectifier for receiver-side applications
Areas of Expertise: Wireless power transfer and high frequency power conversion

Ratul Das

School/year: University of Colorado - Boulder, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Summer, 2021
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Ultra-efficient Power Delivery Architecture and Topologies for IT Systems - Advanced power delivery architecture for high-performance IT systems that interfaces with a high-voltage AC grid.
Areas of Expertise: Hybrid Converters

Benjamin Dean

School/year: The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Graduate
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: 2021
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Agent-Based Microgrid - Using agent-based communication to optimize inverter and battery management communication for microgrids
Areas of Expertise: Microgrids

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