WEMPEC Newsletter – September 2024

September 2024 Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale Dan Ludois cofounded the company C-Motive Technologies with the goal to use advances in electric motors to build macro-scale electrostatic motors. Their current prototype is capable of …

175 Years of Energy: Timeline

Energy-related research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has evolved over the institution’s first 175 years, from departmentally-segregated work focused largely on technological innovation to a more holistic and interdisciplinary approach that bridges technologies, environmental and social impacts, and policy. Explore some of the university’s contributions to energy research in this five-part series

WEMPEC Newsletter July 2024

July 2024   GLOW Workshop UW-Madison will be hosting a workshop on the topic of offshore wind energy technologies for application on the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Offshore Wind (GLOW) activities are aimed to …

WEMPEC Newsletter June 2024

June 2024   WELCOME MAHIMA GUPTA Mahima Gupta will be joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) as an Assistant Professor this month. She received her Ph.D. and …

WEMPEC Newsletter May 2024

May 2024 WEMPEC would like to congratulate the following students as they graduate this Spring/Summer: Connor Akers Waiyan (Anson) Chan Divya Sureshbhai Mendpara Dante Newman Justin Paddock Anirudh Upadhyaya Sri Krishna Govind Anandarao Sai Nikhilesh …

Professors Chirag Gupta and Shubhra Pasayat add new energy and resources to power semiconductor research.

Semiconductor chips aren’t just the “brains” of our computers and smart phones. A different variety of chip, called power semiconductors, transform, route and manage the energy that powers our gadgets and are equally as important. Making them faster and more efficient is just as critical to enabling next generation technologies as improving processor speed.

ECE at UW-Madison was well-represented at the ARPA-E

ARPA-E’s Unlocking Lasting Transformative Resilience Advances by Faster Actuation of Power Semiconductor Technologies (ULTRAFAST) program in Chicago. Professor Bulent Sarlioglu‘s invited talk covered “EMI/EMC Considerations Associated with Wide Bandgap Device-based Power Electronics,” and Assistant Professor …