Distinguished Lecturers

The Distinguished Lecturers Program features individuals selected by PELS who are internationally recognized experts in their fields, and who have volunteered to give technical talks at chapters around the world.  If you would like to become a PELS Distinguished Lecturer please contact David Perreault. PELS is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 class of Distinguished Lecturers:

Ralph Kennel

Predictive Control - the  Powerful Method to Control Power Converters and Drives in the Future

Encoderless Control of AC Drives

Encoders for Simultaneous Sensing of Position and Speed - a Bottleneck in Electrical Drives with Digital Control

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Johann Kolar

The Essence of Three-Phase PFC Rectifier Systems

The Essence of Three-Phase AC-AC Converter Systems

Pareto-Optimal Design of Airborne Wind Turbine Power Electronics

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Xiangning He

Test and Measurement of Switching Dynamical Characteristics for IGBTs and IGBT Inverters, - From Off Line to On Line

High Step-up(down) and Interleaved DC/DC Converters with Active and Passive Soft-Switching

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Dragan Maksimovic

Digital control of high-frequency switched mode DC-DC power converters

Analog and digital control techniques for single-phase power factor correction (PFC) rectifiers

Averaged-switch modeling of DC-DC converters

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Seth Sanders

The Road to Integrated Power Conversion via the Switched Capacitor Approach

Digital PWM:  Theory and Design for High Frequency Power Conversion Applications

Distributed Solar Thermal Power Generation

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