Prof. Tom Jahns has announced that he will retire from his active faculty position at UW-Madison on June 30, 2021. Prof. Jahns joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1998 as the Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electric Machines.
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Sarlioglu receives IEEE PES Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award
Bulent Sarlioglu, the Jean van Bladel Associate Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the recipient of the 2021 Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award from the IEEE Power & Energy Society.
Madison’s tech sector booms, driven by UW innovation
In 2020, the country’s biggest tech migration increase took place in Madison, according to LinkedIn data published by Big Technology on December 17, 2020. The boom is fueled in part by UW–Madison, which provides cutting-edge research, entrepreneurial graduates and researchers, and a well-educated local workforce that motivates some employers to open offices in Madison.
Professor Emeritus Featured in “On Wisconsin”
Former students create a fund to carry on the work of electrical engineering professor Thomas Lipo PhD’68.
Prof. Ludois’s “Wednesday Night at the Lab” talks on PBS about Future Electric Machines
Prof. Ludois, discusses the challenges wind turbines and robots pose to magnetic machine technology and ways to meet the needs for electric machines in the future. Could electrostatic machines be the solution?
Unique UW-Madison group is a route to good jobs, economic progress in power electronics
February 20, 2017 By David Tenenbaum Synergy generators are made in Whitewater. WEMPEC alumnus Tod Tesch played a key role in engineering the Synergy generators. COURTESY GENERAC POWER SYSTEMS INC. In a conference room in Waukesha, engineer James …