Mission
Engineering Spark was created to help learners all over the world ignite their passion for engineering. We bring together online courses with active learning so that you can become a real-world problem solver. Your passion for engineering starts here.
Announcements
January 2026:
- Updated some videos in the Introduction to Power Electronics and Pangolin Awareness courses.
- Started to fill out a new courses on Introduction to Control and Modeling and Control for Power Electronics, but there is more to come.
- Prof. Kim donated $1,000 for 2025 to the Pangolin Crisis Fund organized by Wildlife Conservation Network.
February 2025: Prof. Kim donated $1,500 for 2024 to the Pangolin Crisis Fund organized by Wildlife Conservation Network.
January 2024: Prof. Kim donated $1,132 for 2023 to the Pangolin Crisis Fund organized by Wildlife Conservation Network.
December 2022: Prof. Kim donated $2,000 for 2022 to the Pangolin Crisis Fund organized by Wildlife Conservation Network.
December 2021: Prof. Kim donated $1,500 for 2021 to the Pangolin Crisis Fund organized by Wildlife Conservation Network.
March 2021:
- A Pangolin Awareness mini-course was added under Courses. This is not an engineering course, but it is to let you know about an important environmental cause.
- In 2021, Prof. Kim will donate 100% of YouTube Ad revenue to an environmental conservation charity (Pangolin Crisis Fund organized by Wildlife Conservation Network). It’s one small thing we can do to conserve our environment and combat climate change.
February 2021: The Introduction to Power Electronics course is now freely available to everyone without the need to make an account. The same will be true for any subsequent courses. Happy learning!
Founder
Katherine A. Kim
Prof. Katherine A. Kim Prof. Katherine A. Kim received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA, in 2007. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. In 2014, she started as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea. Since 2019, she has been with National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, where she is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Prof. Kim’s research focuses on power electronics and control for solar photovoltaic applications. She received the Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award from the IEEE Education Society in 2024, the Award for Achievements in Power Electronics Education from the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) in 2022, recognition as an Innovator Under 35 for the Asia Pacific Region by the MIT Technology Review in 2020, and the Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from PELS in 2019.
She has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics from 2027-2024. For IEEE PELS, she served as the Student Membership Chair in 2013-2014, PELS Member-At-Large for 2016-2018, PELS Women in Engineering Chair in 2018-2020, and the PELS Constitution and Bylaws Chair in 2021-2023. She is currently the IEEE PELS Vice President of Educational Activities for 2024-2027.
Website: http://pearslab.net/