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WEMPEC Annual Review Registration Open!

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WEMPEC Annual Review Registration Open!

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WEMPEC Annual Review Registration Open!

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WEMPEC Annual Review Registration Open!

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The Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC) is a technology center at the University of Wisconsin­‐Madison. WEMPEC began in January 1981 with a mission to provide education, research, and service. With the support of more than 60 corporate sponsors, our team of professors, staff, graduate students, and international scholars work together to research and develop the newest technologies and techniques in electric machines, power electronics, actuators, sensors, drives, motion control, and drive applications.

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  • Video available: Watch Prof. Giri’s Talk on Jevons’ Paradox and Decarbonization online

    Over a hundred years ago, the English economist William Stanley Jevons keenly observed that technological advances that increase energy efficiency leads to further increased energy consumption and not the other way around. In this talk, Prof. Giri reviews Jevons' observations and links it to present ones. The talk was given in September 2023 as part of the Wisconsin Energy Institute's Sustainable Energy series.

  • Wave energy harvesting project among first round winners of DOE InDEEP prize

    WEMPEC PhD student David Skrovanek, Professor Dan Ludois, and Professor Ted Brekken of Oregon State University are among the first stage winners on the DOE's InDEEP prize supporting research in the area of ocean wave energy technology.

  • Giri Venkataramanan named an IEEE Fellow

    Giri Venkataramanan, the Keith and Jane Morgan Nosbusch Engineering Education Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named a fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the control of energy resources in microgrids.

  • Riccardo Breda receives IEEE PELS Fellowships

    Riccardo is a visiting student from the University of Udine in Italy, advised by Prof. Bulent Sarlioglu.

  • High expectations for single-wire power exchange

    Professor Daniel Ludois and PhD student Shiying Wang received the award for Best Oral Presentation Paper in Emerging Technology for IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2023. The award was announced at the IEEE ECCE in Nashville, TN in November.

  • Three UW-Madison COE Alumni on Forbes 30 Under 30 List

    H3X co-founders and UW Madison College of Engineering Alumni, are moving the world one step closer to electrifying the skies with new lightweight, power-dense electric motors.

  • ASPE awards for Prof. Lei Zhou and two of her PhD students

    Prof. Lei Zhou and her PhD students Laura Homiller and Jinjie Wu were honored with an Early Career Award and Student Scholarship awards ant the 38th American Society for Precision Engineering annual meeting in November. Read more about these recognitions and the awardees here.

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