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The 5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC'09)
September 7-11, 2009, Dearborn, MI 48128
Sustainability, Hybrid, Plug-in, Battery




VPPC 09 Keynote Speech

Sustainable Engineering: A New Field of Research

Mark Ehsani, Ph.D

Professor, Fellow, IEEE, Fellow, SAE
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
3128 TAMUS
214 Zachry Engineering Center
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7582
Fax: (979) 862-1976
Email: ehsani@ee.tamu.edu

 

Dr. Mark Ehsani received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981. Since 1981, he has been at Texas A&M University where he founded the power electronics program. He is the co-author of more than 300 technical papers, 3 books, an IEEE standards book, and 20 patents. Three of these papers have received prize paper awards in IEEE-IAS. He has also been honored by numerous organizations, including IEEE awards and Texas A&M University as Halliburton Professor and Dresser Industries Professor. His current research work is in power electronics, motor drives, hybrid electric vehicles and systems. He has served on the Ad Com of Power Electronics Society, Executive Council of Industry Applications Society, elected member of the Board of Governors of Vehicular Technology Society, and as chairman and member of several technical committees, in several societies. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Distinguished Speaker of Industrial Electronics Society, Power Engineering Society, and past Distinguished Lecturer of Industry Application Society and a registered Professional engineer in the state of Texas.