Cuzner Research Group - Advanced Power Electronics and Reliability

09/20/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/16nkqv4vzX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Former Waukesha Alderman Don Browne hosts compelling discussions about topics that resonate with Waukesha and Waukesha County in this new weekly podcast series. Tune in on demand, and listen for highlights during the week on 540 WAUK.

11/22/2023

I recently attended the IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Exposition (ECCE) in Nashville along with four students and a post doc. We had a pretty good showing presenting four papers: 'The Use of Digital Twins in Inverter-based DERs to Improve Nanogrid Fault Recovery', 'Design and Surface Flashover Test of 10 kV SiC Power Module for DC Shipboard Application', 'Modeling and Validation of Common-mode Emissions of Silicon Carbide Enabled Motor Drive in Extended EMC Frequency Range' and 'Novel XGBoost Classifier Based Relaying Approach with 2 Classes of Protection Zone'.

11/22/2023

Our research group was recently interviewed by Spectrum News regarding our work on microgrids and recent integration of the UWM microgrid with Badger Technologies' Hybrid Energy Storage System.

Their research aims to make electricity more reliable.

08/21/2023

https://www.cbs58.com/news/sen-tammy-baldwin-d-wi-sen-mark-kelly-d-az-visit-port-washington-facility-to-learn-about-renewable-energy-solutions

PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- During her visit across the state of Wisconsin this week, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D) spent Friday morning, Aug. 4 at a facility in Port Washington, learning about innovative so

08/21/2023

https://uwm.edu/news/two-u-s-senators-get-first-hand-look-at-uwms-energy-research/

Two U.S. senators recently received an up-close look at the federally funded, collaborative research being done between UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science and Badger Technology Group.

08/21/2023

I am catching up on my posts. Here is a new release on our work with Badger Technology Group on a new Hybrid Energy Storage System supported by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab.

PORT WASHINGTON, WI— Badger Technology Group Inc., and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Engineering & Applied Science have received a contract from the United States Air Force Research Lab to produce, ...

08/21/2023

This article was published by Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, CA. It summarizes the work we have been doing with the team there and the EXWC team in Port Hueneme. We are actively engaged in continuing this work and developing a revolutionary new way of building up reliable and resilient microgrids both to improve energy security and to reduce greenhouse gases.

By Douglas Van Bossuyt, PhD, NPS Systems Engineering Department  and Giovanna Oriti, PhD, NPS Electrical and Computer EngineerIng Department

12/05/2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nc-power-outages-investigated-criminal-occurrence-rcna59993

Autonomously re-configurable nano-grid based microgrids are one way to mitigate these kinds of attacks. Electrical distribution networks can be made more resilient if they can draw power from multiple sources through re-configurable power and communication networks. The need for this technology is becoming critical.

A curfew was declared and schools were closed as the FBI and state authorities joined the investigation into the gun attacks on two energy substations in Moore County.

10/20/2022

Indigenous nations have been stewarding the lands and waterways of what we now call the Midwest for millennia. In recent years, native nations, in particular women tribal members, have been at the forefront of social movements protecting water and investing in resilient and clean energy infrastructure.

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, join us on Tuesday, November 1st to hear from a panel of experts on how sovereign Indigenous nations in Wisconsin and beyond are responding to the challenges and opportunities of energy infrastructure development on tribal lands.

To register, click link in bio or visit energy.wisc.edu/events

10/02/2022

https://youtu.be/qxNremc9PXY
We are proud to be part of this effort!

The U.S. Department of Defense has listed climate change as a national security threat, and is now taking steps to reduce its carbon footprint. The U.S. Army...

09/23/2022

Time to make updates. We are excited that my colleague and friend Chanyeop Park has joined UWM and will be working with us on insulation systems and dielectric materials--key technologies to the future of power and energy.

https://uwm.edu/engineering/through-office-of-naval-research-park-awarded-148k-to-study-partial-discharge-in-power-electronics/