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Announcements
Plans for 2021 WEMPEC Annual Review Meeting, May 11-12
We are writing again, as promised, to discuss plans for our upcoming 2021 WEMPEC Annual Review Meeting scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, May 11-12. After careful deliberations involving all of the WEMPEC faculty…
Prof. Giri Venkataramanan Named WEMPEC Co-Director
There is an important change in the WEMPEC leadership that I am pleased to report. WEMPEC faculty members have unanimously agreed to appoint Prof. Giri Venkataramanan as a WEMPEC Co-Director…
Prof. Tom Lipo and Prof. Robert Lorenz Memorial Sessions at ECCE 2020
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 …
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, …