Robert D. Lorenz
1946 – 2019
With great sadness, we announce that Prof. Robert (Bob) Lorenz passed away peacefully this past Sunday, Jan. 27, in the presence of his loving family. After putting up a valiant fight against cancer for more than a year, his health worsened rapidly late last week, resulting in his admission into hospice care. It is hard to find words to express the deep sorrow that we feel at the loss of such a renowned and inspirational figure in our WEMPEC faculty for the last 35 years. We will miss him greatly, but we will strive to carry on his vision of technical excellence and community that he exemplified every day that he was with us.
Prof. Lorenz’s family and the WEMPEC faculty express our sincere gratitude to all of his international community of friends and colleagues for their loving support throughout this past year. It was a great source of comfort and strength for him that inspired him to strive so hard to continue working with his students right up to the middle of last week, a day before he was admitted into hospice care.
A Celebration of Life ceremony is planned in Madison on Saturday, Feb. 9, with a visitation on Friday, the day before. More details are posted on Prof. Lorenz’s Caring Bridge site here.
For more information about Prof. Lorenz’s life and legacy, please click this link.
WEMPEC will be planning special activities to celebrate Prof. Lorenz’s memory and legacy. We will distribute more information as plans develop.
The WEMPEC Faculty and Staff
WEMPEC is hiring! The search for a new Faculty position in controls has completed its first round, but applications of qualified candidates will be accepted until the position is filled.
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Core Values
To be the lifelong hub of a worldwide network of engineers who are active in all facets of power electronics and electromechanical power conversion and their applications.
WEMPEC’s Mission:
- To maintain a tightly-coupled relationship between WEMPEC-supported university research and educational programs and the engineers in global industry who sponsor and support these programs.
- To continuously improve the WEMPEC program in order to more effectively foster and sustain the growth of advanced electrical energy conversion technologies and their industrial, commercial, residential, consumer, automotive, and aerospace applications.
- To develop effective methodologies for transferring new knowledge gained in WEMPEC-supported research to all engineers in industry who sponsor and support this research, reflecting a long-term commitment to career development of engineers in our field.
- To globally foster the spirit of technological innovation and progress in electrical and electromechanical power conversion.
WEMPEC has a research focus in three major areas: Advanced Machines, Power Converters, and Controls & Sensor Technology. Significant investigations are conducted in other areas as well. The objective of faculty and students is to perform the highest quality long-term research that results in technology advancements which lead to future industrial growth. WEMPEC research seeds long-term technological developments and discoveries that are years ahead of commercially available products. WEMPEC leads the world in pushing the envelope in machines, converters, and controls in unique synergistic relationships to achieve new and innovative technology.
WEMPEC’s 36-year history is marked by ground-breaking research in many and significant areas. A partial list follows:
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The faculty at WEMPEC has established a comprehensive curriculum in the electrical machines and power electronics field that serves students at the university as well as engineers already established in the industry. Courses for credit are offered on campus and digitally through the Online Degrees & Capstone Certificates, and are complemented by short courses and tutorials that are offered periodically on campus or on-site at our corporate sponsors. Teaching efforts have been further enhanced through the establishment of a world-class teaching and research laboratory. An outstanding group of graduate students and visiting scholars have established an internationally recognized level of excellence in their research contributions. Industrial interest in the WEMPEC research program has been maintained by a concerted effort to keep projects relevant to long term industrial needs.
The enabling nature of power electronics and its impact on factory automation, robotics, transportation, energy efficiency, electric automobiles, residential and commercial appliances, alternative energy and power distribution as well as computers other electronic equipment is well known and becoming increasingly recognized. WEMPEC, with the cooperation and support of its industrial sponsors, continues to play an important role in bringing new generations of power electronics and electric machine technologies to fruition. WEMPEC maintains a focus to provide efficient technology transfer to sponsoring companies. Through sponsored research projects, graduate internships, seminars, research reports, technology review meetings, poster sessions and in many other ways, WEMPEC continues to serve our constituents by transferring technologies developed in the research lab to our corporate industrial sponsors.
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