The University of Tennessee Engineering Department has received some very exciting news. Two of their finest professors in engineering have been chosen for grants which will aid the Engineering Department in terms of financing specific research.

Dr. Xiaorui Wang, an assistant professor in the  Electric Engineering and Computer Science Department (EECS), was honored with a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $200,000 for his proposal entitled, “CSR--PDOS: A Holistic Framework for Power and Performance Control in Data Centers.” The grant will be used in support of a research which applies a multi-input/multi-output control theory, organizing power consumption and the application of a high-density server on a large-scale data center. This proposal of Dr. Wang’s was chosen from a collection of 410 other proposals presented to the NSF Computer Systems Research.

Dr. Dongjun Lee, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering was also presented an NSF grant of $225,000 which is to be used in aid a project called “Feedback Control of Multiple Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems: Geometry, Passivity, and Communication.”

The University of Tennessee, as well as Dr. Wang and Dr. Lee, are very pleased with the aid that these two grants will provide for research in these specific areas of the Engineering Department.