Like many of you, all of us in WEMPEC are looking forward to the ECCE conference next week. ECCE is the annual conference that has the greatest number of our students not only attending, but …
Announcements
WEMPEC 40th Anniversary Founders Campaign: The Thomas A. Lipo Fund
Since its founding in 1981, WEMPEC has become a global hub for excellence that continues to make pioneering contributions to research, education, and professional service in our field of electric machines, power electronics, and drives. …
Prof. Jahns named Hilldale Award Winner!
The Hilldale Award is UW-Madison’s highest honor on-campus for Research, Teaching, and Service. It is given annually to only 4 faculty members, one each from Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Biological Sciences. …
Prof. Severson Receives NSF CAREER Award!
Congratulations to Prof. Eric Severson for achieving this significant milestone!! The objective of this research is to overcome fundamental challenges of both conventional motor bearings and magnetic bearings. While today’s electric motors utilize and control …
Professor Sarlioglu wins Grand Nagamori Award
Congratulations to our own Professor Bulent Sarlioglu, who has been named a recipient of the Nagamori Award. Sarlioglu is recognized by his “Pioneering research and development on high-efficiency and high-power density new and classical electric motors with wide …
WEMPEC Students Awarded Dvorak Energy Prize
Ashray Manur and David Sehloff were First Place winners of the Dvorak Energy Prize for their entry into this year’s Wisconsin Energy & Sustainability Challenge. This forum, open to all current and former students in …
Prof. Dan Ludois Selected as Moore Inventor Fellow
We are delighted that Prof. Dan Ludois has been selected as one of five of this year’s recipients of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Moore Inventor Fellow! The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation co-founder, …
ARPA-E Award
Congratulations to Profs. Tom Jahns and Bulent Sarlioglu for winning a $1,031,315 award to develop Wide-Band-Gap-enabled integrated motor drives (IMDs) using current-source inverters (CSIs) from the ARPA-E CIRCUITS (Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies and …