Micah Sweeney

Micah Sweeney

Laboratory/Field Assistant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Technical Lead at EPRI

  • Education

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      2006 - 2010
      Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering

      Concentration in Power Engineering.

    • University of Tennessee-Knoxville

      2010 - 2012
      Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering

      Concentration in Power Electronics. M.S. project: "Active Current Balancing for Accurate Power Measurement of Parallel-Output Devices"

  • Experience

    • Energy BioScience Institute-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      Jan 2008 - Jan 2010
      Laboratory/Field Assistant
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      Jan 2008 - Jan 2009
      Resident Advisor
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2010
      Undergraduate Research Assistant

      Power Electronics lab

    • University of Tennessee

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
      Graduate Teaching Assistant

      Power Engineering and Circuits laboratory courses

    • EPRI

      Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
      Graduate Student Intern
    • EPRI

      Jun 2012 - now

      Evaluation of customer (end-use) technologies through laboratory testing and field monitoring.Key focus areas:Data Centers, Commercial HVAC, Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF), Demand Response (DR) with HVAC, Thermal Energy Storage (TES), Breweries, Motors & Drives, Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), Computer Power Supplies, Cryptocurrency Mining, Blockchain

      • Technical Leader

        Apr 2023 - now
      • Project Engineer/Scientist III

        Jun 2012 - Apr 2023
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified Energy Manager (CEM)

      Association of Energy Engineers
      Mar 2023
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Micah Sweeney
      Grainger Power Engineer Award Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC May 2010 "To reward highly qualified and well-motivated undergraduate and graduate students who have chosen to pursue a field of study in electric power engineering."