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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 …

Professor Sarlioglu served as the General Chair for 2018 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC’18) and WEMPEC faculty and students contributed to the success of the conference. The Conference was held at  Long Beach Convention Center in California on …

Congratulations to new PhD graduates: Apoorva Athavale, Parikshith Channegowda, Vishram Deshpande (off-campus), Baoyun Gee, Phil Hart, Jianyang Liu, Wenbo Liu, and Adam Shea!

Prof. Giri Venkataramanan organized a weekend-long hackathon that kicked off at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 13, 2018, and by the final pitches at 3 p.m. on Sunday, the participants had built everything from point-based smartphone …

Professor Bulent Sarlioglu will give a keynote address entitled, “Electrification of Aircraft: Next frontiers from electric and hybrid propulsion to flying cars” at the 9th Annual PEMD Conference in Liverpool, UK on April 17th, 2018.

Congratulations to Andy Schroedermeier for winning a Poster Presentation award at APEC 2018! The paper associated with the poster is: A. Schroedermeier and D. C. Ludois, “Integrated Inductors, Capacitors, and Damping in Bus Bars for …

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 …

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, …

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 …