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Lecturers Programs
- PELS Distinguished Lecturers Program
- Future Electronic Power Distribution Systems – A Contemplative View
- Building Block Integration in Power Electronics – New Concepts and Developments
- Modeling and Control of Three-Phase PWM Converters – A Tutorial Overview
- Photovoltaic Power Processing Systems – including Space Power Systems
- Distributed Power System
- Modeling and Control of Power Converters
- Soft-switching Converter Topologies
- Apportioning factor: an useful concept for PWM converter control
- Fault tolerant induction motor drives from the converter point of view
- Soft switching: is it really advantageous?
- Power electronics introduction
- Energy and power processing with power converters and drives
- Power Electronics and Electrical Drives for Hybrid Vehicles
- Renewable Energy Sources
- Soft-Switching Technologies
- Storage Systems
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.