Chanyeop Park, assistant professor, electrical engineering, will receive $148,000 over two years in sub-contracted funding from Mississippi State University. The funding is part of a contract that MSU received from the Office of Naval Research.
In this project—Development of Electrets as a Solution to Partial Discharge in Power-Electronics-Driven Shipboard Power Systems—Park will research a solution to mitigate partial discharge in power electronics in shipboard power systems.
Park’s expertise is securing dielectric integrity of future of power technologies
Park joined the college in August. His research has focused on securing the dielectric integrity and preventing the aging of next-generation power and energy technologies. Specifically, he has aimed to identify, characterize, and address existing knowledge gaps and challenges that are emerging with the advances in power electronics, renewable energy, electric ships, electric aircraft, and soft electronics, which can be reformed or reshaped.