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• PELS Distinguished Lecturers Program
  

The individuals selected by PELS to be part of the Distinguished Lecturers Program are listed below with their contact information and titles or topics of the talks they are offering. If you are interested in this program, just contact them or the Chapter Development Chair to receive help. PELS offers to cover the travel expenses and the local chapters would cover the local expenses.  There is also a Regional Lecturers Program to support chapter meetings at lower cost.

PELS Distinguished Lecturers 2008 – 2010

Dushan Borojevic

Available Talks:

1. Future Electronic Power Distribution Systems – A Contemplative View
2. Building Block Integration in Power Electronics – New Concepts and Developments
3. Modeling and Control of Three-Phase PWM Converters – A Tutorial Overview

Contact Information:

302 Whittemore (0111)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Tel: (540) 231-4381
Email: dushan@vt.edu

Bio:

Dushan Boroyevich received his Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Belgrade in 1976 and his M.S. degree from the University of Novi Sad in 1982, both in Yugoslavia.  He received his Ph.D. degree in 1986 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, USA.
From 1986 to 1990, he was an assistant professor and director of the Power and Industrial Electronics Research Program in the Institute for Power and Electronic Engineering, at the University of Novi Sad, and later, acting head of the Institute. He then joined the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech as associate professor. He is now the American Electric Power Professor at the Department and co-director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES). Dr. Boroyevich is Fellow of IEEE and recipient of the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Technical Field Award.
Dr. Boroyevich’s research interests include multi-phase power conversion, electronic power distribution systems, power electronics systems modeling and control, and multi-disciplinary design optimization.

Bo-Hyung Cho

Available Talks:

1. Photovoltaic Power Processing Systems – including Space Power Systems
2. Distributed Power System
3. Modeling and Control of Power Converters
4. Soft-switching Converter Topologies

Contact Information:

School of Electrical Engineering
Seoul National University
Seoul Korea
Tel: 822-880-7260
Email: bhcho@snu.ac.kr

Bio:

Bo H. Cho received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA U.S.A and the Ph.D. degree, also in electrical engineering, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
From 1980 to 1982, he was a member of the technical staff of the Power Conversion Electronics Department, TRW Defense and Space System Group, Redondo Beach California. From 1985 to 1995, he was an Assistant, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech. He joined the School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea in 1995 and he is presently a Professor. He has published more that 250 papers in power electronics journals and conference proceedings, and numerous technical reports to the U.S. government and industries.
He has served IEEE PELS as a Chairman for the Membership and Publicity Committee. He was the General Chairman for the 2006 Power Electronics Specialist Conference. He is the Junior Past President of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the KIPE Journal of Power Electronic, the chairman of the IEEE Seoul section, Power Electronics Chapter and Director of the Power Electronics Center in the Electrical Engineering and Science Research Institute. He is a full member of National Academy of Engineering, Korea and currently the Chairman of International Relation of the Academy.
Dr. Cho was a recipient of the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi.

Edison da Silva

Available Talks:

1. Apportioning factor: an useful concept for PWM converter control
2. Fault tolerant induction motor drives from the converter point of view
3. Soft switching: is it really advantageous?
4. Power electronics introduction
5. Energy and power processing with power converters and drives

Contact Information:

Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - DEE
Av. Aprigio Veloso 882 – bloco CH
Caixa Postal 10.105
58109-970 Campina Grande PB – Brazil
Tel: +55 (83) 3310-140
E-mail: edison@dee.ufcg.edu.br

Bio:

Edison Roberto Cabral da Silva (M'92-SM'95-F'03) was born in Pelotas, Brazil, in 1942. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic School of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the D. Eng. degree from the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France, in 1965, 1968, and 1972, respectively. From 1967 to March 2002 he was with the Electrical Engineering Department of Federal University of Paraíba, as a Professor. In 1985 he was awarded the CAPES Fellowship to attend the University Paul Sabatier de Toulouse. Since April 2002, he is with the Electrical Engineering Department of Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil, where he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Research Laboratory on Industrial Electronics and Machine Drives (LEIAM).
Dr. da Silva has 38 years of full-time teaching, including short courses for industry and utility companies, and concurrent experience as industrial consultant and also as a consultant for different Brazilian institutions related to research financial aid. He has also supervised doctor and master research work in the graduate program in Electrical Engineering (both MSc and PhD) since 1973 and has led a number of Technical Projects at LEIAM. At UFPB he was the Head of the Electrical Engineering Department from 1974 to 1976. In 1990 he was with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and from 1990 to 1991, with WEMPEC, University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a Visiting Professor. His current research work is in the area of power electronics and motor drives, in which he has published more than 170 papers. He was the General Chairman of the 1984 Joint Brazilian and Latin-American Conference on Automatic Control, sponsored by the Automatic Control Brazilian Society and the General Chairman of The IEEE 2005 Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC'05. He is the Junior Past President of the Brazilian Society on Automatic Control. He bestowed the CAPES/COFECUB Gold Medal for Services.  He is currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Joint IAS, PES, PEL Nordeste 1/ Bahia Section Chapter, as well as the General Chair for the Chapters of Region 9 South, of IEEE Industry Applications Society, having also served as Member-at-Large at the the Board of that Society.

Rik DeDoncker

Available Talks:

1. Power Electronics and Electrical Drives for Hybrid Vehicles
2. Renewable Energy Sources
3. Soft-Switching Technologies
4. Storage Systems

Contact Information:

Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives
Aachen University of Technology
ISEA der RWTH Aachen Jägerstr. 17/19
D-52066 Aachen
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)241 80-96920
E-Mail: dedoncker@rwth-aachen.de

Bio:

Rik W. De Doncker (F’01) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium in 1986.
In 1987, he was appointed Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After a short stay as Adjunct Researcher at IMEC, Leuven, he joined in 1989 the General Electric Company at the Corporate Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY. In 1994, he joined Silicon Power Corporation (formerly GE-SPCO) as Vice President of Technology. Currently, he is Professor at Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, where he leads the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives. In 2006, he became director of the E.ON Research Institute for Energy at RWTH-Aachen.
In 2005 and 2006, he was President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS). He was founding Chairman of the German IEEE IAS-PELS Joint Chapter. In 2002, Dr. De Doncker was recipient of the IAS Outstanding Achievement Award.

1. Wind power - A power source enabled by power electronics
2. Adjustable speed drives - future trends and applications
3. Power Converters and Control in renewable energy systems

Frede Blaabjerg was born in Erslev, Denmark, on May 6, 1963. He received the M.Sc.EE. from Aalborg University, Denmark in 1987, and the PhD. degree from the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, in 1995.

He was employed at ABB-Scandia, Randers, from 1987-1988. During 1988-1992 he was a PhD. student at Aalborg University. He became an Assistant Profes­sor in 1992 at Aalborg University, in 1996 Associate Professor and in 1998 full professor in power electronics and drives the same place. In 2000 he was visiting professor in University of Padova, Italy as well as he became part-time programme research leader at Research  Center Risoe in wind turbines. In 2002 he was visiting professor at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. His research areas are in power electronics, static power converters, ac drives, switched reluctance drives, modelling, characterization of power semiconductor devices and simulation, power quality, wind turbines and green power inverter. He is involved in more than fifteen research projects with the industry. Among them has been the Danfoss Professor Programme in Power Electronics and Drives. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 publications in his research fields including the book "Control in Power Electronics" (Eds. M.P. Kazmierkowski, R. Krishnan, F. Blaabjerg) 2002, Academic Press.

Dr. Blaabjerg is a member of the European Power Electronics and Drives Association and the IEEE Industry Applications Society Industrial Drives Committee. He is also a member of the Industry Power Converter Committee and the Power Electronics Devices and Components Committee in the IEEE Industry Application Society. He is associated editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Journal of Power Electronics  and  of the Danish journal Elteknik.

He has served as member of the Danish Technical Research Council in Denmark 1997-2003 and from 2001-2003 he was chairman. He has also been chairman of the Danish Small Satellite programme and the Center Contract Committee which supports collaboration between universities and industry. He became a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Science in 2001 and in 2003 he became a member of the academic council. From 2002-2003 he became a member of the Board of the Danish Research Councils. In 2004 he became chairman of the programme committee Energy and Environment.

He received the 1995 Angelos Award for his contribution in modulation technique and control of electric drives, and an Annual Teacher prize at Aalborg University, also 1995. In 1998 he received the Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has received four IEEE Prize paper awards during the last six years. In 2002 he received the C.Y. O'Connor fellowship from Perth, Australia, in 2003 the Statoil-prize for his contributions in Power Electronics and in 2004 the Grundfos Prize in acknowledgement of his international scientific research in power electronics.

1. Recent research and developments in Planar Printed-Circuit-Board Transformer Technology.
2. Universal Contactless Battery Charging Platform.
3. A Brief History of Lighting Technology (suitable for general public and non-specialists).
4. A review of Lighting and Dimming Technology.

S.Y.(Ron) Hui was born in Hong Kong in 1961. He received the B.Sc degree (Hons) from the University of Birmingham, U.K. in 1984, and the D.I.C. and Ph.D degree from Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London in 1987.

He was a Lecturer in power electronics at the University of Nottingham, U.K. in 1987-90. In 1990, he went to Australia and took up a lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he became a Senior Lecturer in 1991. He joined the University of Sydney in 1993 and was promoted to Reader of Electrical Engineering in 1996. Presently, he is a Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. He has published over 150 technical papers, including 100 refereed journal publications. He received the Teaching Excellence Award in 1999 and the Grand Applied Research Excellence Award in 2001 from the City University of Hong Kong. In 2001, he received the Technological Achievement Award from the Hong Kong Science Park Corporation.

Professor Hui is a Fellow of the IEEE and IEE. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics since 1997 and a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Magazine since 2001. He has been an At-Large member of the IEEE PELS AdCom since October 2002.

1. Power Electronics and the Growing Energy Revolution (introduces power electronics and its major technical challenges)
2. Emerging Hybrid and Electric Automotive Systems.
3. The Nature and Promise of 42 V Automotive Power
4. Fuel Cells and Electricity:  What Every Electrical Engineer Should Know About Fuel Cells
5. Nonlinear Control Approaches in Power Electronics
6. Motor Re-Rating for Traction Applications -- Field Weakening Revisited
7. All-Digital Audio Amplifiers ¨C Methods for Complete High-Fidelity Digital Class D Systems

Philip T. Krein received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the A.B. degree in economics and business from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.  He was an engineer with Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon, then returned to the University of Illinois.  At present he holds the Grainger Endowed Director's Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics as Director of the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics.  His research interests address all aspects of power electronics, machines, and drives, with emphasis on nonlinear control approaches.  His published an undergraduate textbook, Elements of Power Electronics (Oxford University Press, 1998).  In 2001, he helped initiate the International Future Energy Challenge, a major student competition involving fuel cell power conversion and energy efficiency for machines. He holds eight U.S. patents.

Dr. Krein is a registered professional engineer in Illinois and in Oregon. He was a senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom in 1997-98, and was recognized as a University Scholar in 1999, the highest research award at the University of Illinois.   In 2003 he received the IEEE William E. Newell Award in Power Electronics.  In 1999-2000 he served as President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society.  At present he is editor of IEEE Power Electronics Letters and serves on the IEEE Board of Directors for Division II.

1. Hybrid electric propulsion technologies.
2. Ultra-capacitor electric energy storage systems and their role in automobile power and propulsion.
3. Electric machines and power electronics for hybrid propulsion.
4. 42V PowerNet systems and how power electronics and ultra-capacitor distributed modules will foster its introduction.

John M. Miller received the BSEE from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, the MSEE degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, and the  PhD degree from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. (Thesis: Inverters for Interconnected Random Sources) in 1976, 1979 and 1983 respectively, all in electrical engineering.

He was a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas from 1976 to 1980 where he contributed to inertial guidance and control systems as well as becoming project leader for laser guidance, encryption and product development.  He joined Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory in 1983 to work on electric vehicle programs and vehicle electrical systems and simulation.  He was technical project leader for 42V Integrated Starter Alternator product development program and later technical leader of hybrid technology governance at Ford before his retirement.  Previous assignments in power and propulsion included research and product development of electric vehicle, electric power steering, electric active suspension, hybrid electric vehicle electric drive system, 42V distribution, energy storage and starter-alternator programs including 14V Belt-ISG and 42V Belt-ISG.  He is a charter member of the MIT/Industry Consortium on Advanced Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems and Components and maintains on-going participation as outside representative and member of its steering committee.  He became an Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University in 1998 where he has taught classes in electric machines and drives and he advises PhD candidates.  He received an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2002 and frequently gives lecturers to graduate and undergraduate classes.  He is the holder of 45 US patents and has authored 106 publications on automotive electrical and electronic systems, utility power systems and transportation systems.  Dr Miller retired from Ford Motor Co. in August of 2002 to start up a private enterprise consulting in ac drives, alternative energy, energy storage systems and propulsion systems for transportation, J-N-J Miller design services, P.L.C.

Dr. Miller was awarded Most Outstanding Paper Award at Convergence, the International Congress on Transportation Electronics, in 1998.  He received best automotive paper award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 1999.  In 2000 Dr Miller was awarded the IEEE Third Millenium Medal for his contributions to IEEE and Southeastern Michigan Section.  He is a past Chair of the IEEE Southeast Michigan Section and ex-member of its Executive Committee and past co-organizer of the IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics in Transportation (WPET), as well as serving as its Financial Chair for 8 years.  He is an organizer and session chair for the 2002, 2003 and 2004 Global Power train Conference. Dr Miller is Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Power Electronics Society Newsletter.  He is author of the book Propulsion Systems for Hybrid Vehicles (IEE Press Power & Energy Series PO045, London, UK Dec. 2003) and co-author of two additional books: Handbook of Automotive Power Electronics and Motor Drives, Marcel Dekker, 2004 (under press A. Emadi editor), and Vehicular Electric Power Systems: Land, Sea, Air, and Space Vehicles, (Marcel Dekker publisher, December 2003 A. Emadi principal author with M. Ehsani & John M. Miller).  He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Power Electronics Society Newsletter and Chairman, Education & Outreach, KiloFarad International.

He is a member of SAE, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and a Fellow of IEEE (#04595815) where he remains active in IEEE Industry Applications, Power Electronics and Vehicular Technology societies.  He is the recipient of the Henry Ford Technology Award for the development of the starter-alternator system for Hybrid Electric Vehicles and is recipient of the Ford Directors Team Achievement Award.  Dr Miller is recipient of 3 publication awards (25 referred papers each) while at Ford Motor Co.  He is a registered and practicing professional engineer in Michigan since 1980.

1. Why the small PM machine is relegating induction machines to niche applications.
2. The dominance of PMs in very large machines, from ship traction to aircraft launching.
3. Renewable energy engineering, the place of power electronics in this, and the hydrogen economy, transportation and vehicular issues.

Dean Patterson was born and grew up in the Southern Australian city of Adelaide. He took his degrees at the University of Adelaide. Following graduation he spent some years in defense science and some years in music. In 1984 he went to the remote tropical city of Darwin in the far north of Australia, to the embryonic Northern Territory University / Charles Darwin University. Over 16 years he built an undergraduate electrical engineering degree program, a post graduate degree program, and a research program based around solar and alternative energy. This research area began with the building of a solar car for the 1987 race across Australia, and led to the establishment of the Northern Territory Centre for Energy Research, and participation in the nationally funded Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Renewable Energy. Over the years his specific research gradually focused in on very high efficiency Permanent Magnet (PM) machines. In 2001 he moved to join colleagues at the University of South Carolina to work on the "Virtual Test Bed" a large scale simulation and modeling environment funded by the US Navy. Dean's contributions were in electric machine design and modeling for the Navy "All Electric Ship" program.  In 2004 he moved to University of Nebraska in Lincoln to assist in the development of an energy research program, centered on the wind and solar resources of that state.

His research interests are in energy management, PM machines and drives, and power electronics. He is also a director of the Northern Territory University's  first spin off company, In Motion Technologies, which is active in Australia developing very high performance axial flux PM machines.

He joined the IEEE in 1989 following a sabbatical in Fairbanks Alaska, and he has been very active in the Power Electronics Society since that time. 2004 is the second year of his term as president of the society.