May 15th & 16th, 2024
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Engineering Hall
The WEMPEC Annual Review is a yearly 2-day conference for WEMPEC members including presentations on ongoing research, tutorials by the WEMPEC faculty, tours through the labs and poster presentations by students as well as extensive networking opportunities.
Registration for the 2024 Annual Review is open!
Join us for in-person technical presentations presented by our faculty and students followed by
our “open lab” research project discussion session.
Exclusive 2-day event
- WEMPEC Sponsors only
- 250+ attendees
- Presentations on pre-publication research
- Tutorials by WEMPEC faculty
- Tour our lab
Highly interactive environment
- Converse with students, colleagues, and faculty
- Spark new ideas
- Forge partnerships with students and faculty
2024 AGENDA
Wednesday, May 15th
7:30 | Networking Breakfast |
8:00 | Opening Remarks – WEMPEC Director Prof. Giri Venkataramanan |
8:05 | Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Welcome – Prof. Susan Hagness, Chair |
8:10 | WEMPEC Present and Future – Prof. Giri Venkataramanan |
TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
8:30 | Transcending the Tradeoffs via Synergistic Electromechanical Designs – Prof. Lei Zhou |
9:15 | Hardware-Control Co-Design towards Over-Actuated Lightweight Precision Stages – Jingjie Wu |
9:35 | Flux-Modulated Machines for High-Torque and Safe Actuation for Interactive Robots – Laura Homiller and YiZhou Han |
BREAK – 20MIN
10:15 | Removing Sensors from Bearingless Motor Drives – Nathan Petersen |
10:35 | Research Update – Prof. Dan Ludois |
11:20 | Designing and Prototyping a Doubly-Fed Traction Machine – Connor Akers |
11:40 | Varying Capacitance Machines for the Direct Generation of HVDC – David Skrovanek |
LUNCH BREAK – 60MIN
1:00 | Design of Electric Motors with Consideration of Critical Materials – Prof. Bulent Sarlioglu |
1:45 | Integrated Motor Drive using SiC-based Current Source Inverter and Dysprosium-Free Permanent Magnet Machine – Sangwhee Lee and Wenda Feng |
2:05 | Development of Fault-Tolerant Modular Motor Drives for Safety-Critical Applications – Pengkun Tian, Xiaoyuan Zhang |
2:30 – 5:00 | On-Campus Poster Session |
4:30 – 6:00 | Networking Reception |
Thursday, May 16th
7:30 | Networking Breakfast |
8:00 | Opening Remarks – Prof. Giri Venkataramanan |
8:05 | College of Engineering Welcome – Prof. Oliver Schmitz, Associate Dean for Research Innovation |
8:10 | WBG Device Initiatives at UW-Madison – Prof. Chirag Gupta |
TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
8:25 | Tutorial: Active Power Decoupling for Power Electronics – Prof. Jinia Roy |
9:10 | Impedance-Based Modelling for Power Converters and Drives – Prof. Giri Venkataramanan |
BREAK – 30MIN
10:15 | Frequency Domain Analysis for Low-Frequency AC Transmission – Rafael Castillo Sierra |
10:35 | Physics-Based Controller Design Works for Power Converters, Too – Aidar Zhetessov |
11:00 | Advanced Magnetic Materials – Guest Panel moderated by Emeritus Prof. Tom Jahns |
LUNCH BREAK – 60MIN
1:00 – 2:00 | On-Campus Poster Session |