John Shen, Chair
PELS Technical Committee on Transportation Power Electronics
Chair:
The current chair is listed as a member of the Administrative Committee
Charter:
To initiate, stimulate and help coordinate work on specifications, standards, test procedures and safety and reliability issues in transportation power electronics.
Responsibilities:
- Develops methods and tools for evaluating new standards and specifications for automotive power electronics subsystems and other transportation applications of power electronics.
- Sponsors tutorials, short courses, sessions at conferences and workshops on transportation power electronics.
- Publishes collections of papers, special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, bibliographies and PELS NEWSLETTER articles on transportation power electronics.
- Sponsors standards for tranportation power electronics components, equipment and sub-systems.
- Works with the SAE (formerly named the Society of Automotive Engineers, other IEEE societies and universities in the promotion of research in the field of power electronics.
- Publishes an annual report each January 1 which summarizes the work of the preceding year, issues in progress and goals for the coming year, along with a current committee roster.
- Publishes an interim report in June to describe progress toward goals and to give AdCom members an opportunity to discuss and comment on the committee's activities.
A primary activity of the committee is to organize the biannual Workshop on Power Electronics in Transportation. Please see the Meetings Page to get updated links and information.