May 14th & 15th, 2025
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Engineering Hall
Save the date for our 2025 conference! Registration will open at a later date.
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.
Welcome to the 2024 Annual Review!
Take a look at our schedule for presentations presented by our faculty and students followed by
our “open lab” research project discussion session from the 2024 Annual Review.
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 | University Welcome – Prof. Amy Wendt, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Physical Sciences |
| 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 | Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Welcome – Prof. Susan Hagness, Chair |
TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
| 8:10 | WBG Device Initiatives at UW-Madison – Prof. Chirag Gupta |
| 8:30 | Tutorial: Active Power Decoupling for Power Electronics – Prof. Jinia Roy |
BREAK – 30MIN
| 9:45 | Impedance-Based Modelling for Power Converters and Drives – Prof. Giri Venkataramanan |
| 10:25 | Frequency Domain Analysis for Low-Frequency AC Transmission – Rafael Castillo Sierra |
| 10:45 | Guest Panel: Advanced Magnetic Materials for Power Electronics and Electric Machines –
Dr. Iver Anderson (Ames National Laboratory), Dr. Vincent Harris (Northeastern University), and Dr. Jian-Ping Wang (University of Minnesota), moderated by Dr. Thomas Jahns |
LUNCH BREAK – 60MIN
| 1:00 – 2:00 | On-Campus Poster Session |
