University of Illinois
Power and Energy Systems
Kevin Colravy
Kevin James Colravy started working for the University of Illinois as an Instructional Communications Technical Operator for the Office of Instructional Resources (OIR) in 1987. He left the university for a year to manage the commercial audio and video installations department of C.V.Lloyde’s. Then in 1990 he returned to the university to manage the College of Medicine's audio/video department. He completed his BS in Electrical Engineering from the U of I in 1995 and in 1996 started work as a research engineer in the Center for Microanalysis of Materials (CMM) in the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab (MRL) at Illinois. This position included support for the TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy) section and the XRD (X-ray Diffraction) section. In 2004 he would transfer to the Micro and Nanofabrication Facility in MRL. This position entailed training of graduate students on the use of fabrication equipment, clean room facilities, SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) facility, and equipment design/maintenance/repair. Kevin started work as a research engineer for the Power, Energy, and Machines group at Everitt Lab, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois, in December of 2007. This group includes the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics (CEME) and the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) at Illinois.