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…
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2020 Grainger Awards
2020 Graduate Students Peter Killeen PhD 2021 Julia Lindberg PhD 2022 David Sehloff PhD 2021 Jonathan Snodgrass PhD 2021 2020 Undergraduate Students William Anderson B.S. 2019 Dakotah Barnes B.S. 2019 Nathan Jensen B.S. 2019 …
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. …
In Memory of Prof. Tom Lipo
1938 – 2020 by Prof. Tom Jahns Thomas A. Lipo, our esteemed faculty colleague, passed away on May 8, 2020, after a battle with cancer. Tom was a pioneer in the field of electrical machines, …
IEEE Journal Special Issue Commemorating WEMPEC 40th
Call for papers! The Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC) was founded in 1981 by Professors Donald Novotny and Thomas Lipo at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During its history of 40 years, it …
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. …
Call for Papers on Magnetically Levitated Motor Systems
Prof. Eric Severson is co-organizing a special section for IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Please click on the Post for details.
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?
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 …