Congratulations to new PhD graduates: Apoorva Athavale, Parikshith Channegowda, Vishram Deshpande (off-campus), Baoyun Gee, Phil Hart, Jianyang Liu, Wenbo Liu, and Adam Shea!
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WEMPEC Students Enjoy Energy Hackathon
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 …
Prof. Bulent Sarlioglu to give keynote talk at 9th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines, and Drives (PEMD)
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.
APEC Poster Presentation Award
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 …
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 …
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 …
WEMPEC 35th Anniversary
Founders’ Message: 35th Anniversary of WEMPEC The idea of an industrial support organization and the subsequent creation of WEMPEC with the help of people like Norb Schmitz, Ken Phillips, and others has been one of …