Brian Lehi Smith, Senior undergraduate student at U-Smart received the 2019 Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior Project Award in the ECE Department at University of Utah. The Award was given during the ECE Awards banquet on April 12, 2019.

Brian’s project developed a new model for controlling supercapacitors for high-dynamic load management in MVDC shipboard microgrids. This project was mentored by Mohammed Masum Siraj Khan, a PhD student in U-Smart Lab.

Brian was also a student of the NROTC program at the Department of Naval Science at the University of Utah, and is starting his career as a Surface Warfare Officer on the USS Thomas Hudner.