The University of Central Florida has been granted a $1 million award from the US Department of Energy in order to “modernize and sustain” the national power grid, according to a press release issued by the university.
According to the release, the award was received by Zhihua Qu, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCF and leader of FEEDER, or Foundations for Engineering for Distributed Energy Resources.
FEEDER, launched in 2013, initiates a partnership between universities, utility and energy companies to train the next generation of engineers.
