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Prof. Daniel Ludois is the first WEMPEC Faculty member to be featured in ECE’s evolving “Focus on Faculty” video profile series. Follow the link to learn more about what drives him and his research group!

Semiconductor chips aren’t just the “brains” of our computers and smart phones. A different variety of chip, called power semiconductors, transform, route and manage the energy that powers our gadgets and are equally as important. Making them faster and more efficient is just as critical to enabling next generation technologies as improving processor speed.

ARPA-E’s Unlocking Lasting Transformative Resilience Advances by Faster Actuation of Power Semiconductor Technologies (ULTRAFAST) program in Chicago. Professor Bulent Sarlioglu‘s invited talk covered “EMI/EMC Considerations Associated with Wide Bandgap Device-based Power Electronics,” and Assistant Professor …

Over a hundred years ago, the English economist William Stanley Jevons keenly observed that technological advances that increase energy efficiency leads to further increased energy consumption and not the other way around. In this talk, Prof. Giri reviews Jevons’ observations and links it to present ones. The talk was given in September 2023 as part of the Wisconsin Energy Institute’s Sustainable Energy series.

WEMPEC PhD student David Skrovanek, Professor Dan Ludois, and Professor Ted Brekken of Oregon State University are among the first stage winners on the DOE’s InDEEP prize supporting research in the area of ocean wave energy technology.

Giri Venkataramanan, the Keith and Jane Morgan Nosbusch Engineering Education Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named a fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the control of energy resources in microgrids.

Riccardo is a visiting student from the University of Udine in Italy, advised by Prof. Bulent Sarlioglu.

Professor Daniel Ludois and PhD student Shiying Wang received the award for Best Oral Presentation Paper in Emerging Technology for IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2023. The award was announced at the IEEE ECCE in Nashville, TN in November.