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By Mary A. Durlak

National Grid, Ferguson Electric, and RobsonWoese have awarded Ilya Grinberg, professor of technology, a grant for the purchase of power electronics and variable speed drives equipment that will further enhance the college’s state-of-the-art power/machines laboratory. The equipment is essential to the study and research of energy conversion in industrial applications.

“This equipment enables us to do much more sophisticated data acquisition,” explained Grinberg. “It gives us a wider scope, too.” Both undergraduate and graduate students are using it to pursue research.

Grinberg, who specializes in electric power distribution systems design and analysis, teaches courses in power systems, electric machines, and power electronics. He also supervises students from the University at Buffalo who are conducting doctoral research with the new equipment. “We are cooperating very closely with UB’s department of electrical engineering,” he said.

The electrical engineering technology program offers two programs, one in electronics and another in power and machines. Students in the first specialize in digital and analog electronic equipment; students in the second specialize in electrical machinery, control systems, and power distribution systems. Graduates from both programs are in demand.