Dr. Robert D. Lorenz
Dr. Robert D. Lorenz ( S'83,M'84,SM'91,F'98 ) did his Master's degree research at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany in 1969/70. He also spent an undergraduate year, 1966/67 studying Electro-Mechanical Engineering at the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Monterrey, Mexico. He obtained the Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an MBA from the University of Rochester, New York. Dr. Lorenz joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1984, after ten years of full-time employment in industry, where he had led the control research staff at the Gleason Works, Rochester, New York. Presently he is a full Professor in both Mechanical and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. Lorenz is the Consolidated Papers Foundation Professor of Controls Engineering. He is a Co-Director of the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, (WEMPEC) which has more than 50 industrial sponsors and is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2001. Dr. Lorenz was a visiting Research Professor in the Electrical Drives Group at the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium in 1989, and at the Electrical Drives Institute of the Technical University of Aachen during the summers of 1987, 1991, 1995, 1997, and 1999, and from Sept. 2000 through June, 2001, is the SEW Eurodrive Guest Professor in Aachen while on Sabbatical from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He speaks German and Spanish fluently.
He teaches and conducts research in the area of control and estimation theory applications in precision motion control, electric machines, power electronics, and ac drives. He has presented numerous IEEE tutorials on ac drives, neuro/fuzzy based motion control and drives, and truly sensorless control of ac motor drives. Dr. Lorenz has published well over 150 technical papers, and received 15 patents. He has won 15 Prize Paper awards from IEEE and other international counterparts.
He is currently President of the IEEE Industry Applications Society and is active in several other IEEE Societies. He is also a member of the ASME, the ISA, the SPIE and the ASEE. He is an active consultant to many industries and organizations, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the states of New York and Wisconsin.
Lecture topics include:
Zero Speed Sensorless Motion Control of ac Motor Drives
Complex Vector Control Design Methods for Advanced ac Drives
Physics-Based Control Design Methods for Industrial Power Converters and Drives
Thermal-Mechatronics as the New Frontier in Power Electronics
Multi-Drive Synchronized Motion Control using Electronic Line Shafting Algorithms
Mailing Address:
In Aachen (from Sept. 1, 2000 until July 7, 2001)
Prof. Robert D. Lorenz, Ph.D., P.E.
Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives
Rhein-Westfalen Tech. Univ. of Aachen
Jaegerstrasse 17-19
D-52066 Aachen
Germany
T: +49-(0)241-80 69 26
F: +49-(0)241-67 505
H: +49-(0)241-750-8730
E: r.d.lorenz@ieee.org
In Madison: (After July 7, 2001)
Prof. Robert D. Lorenz
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Depts. of ME and ECE
1513 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706 USA
T: 608-262-5343
F: 608-265-2316
H: 608-273-3272
E: r.d.lorenz@ieee.org