Seth Sanders

Seth R. Sanders is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He received S.B. degrees (1981) in Electrical Engineering and Physics, and the S.M. (1985) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Following an early experience as a Design Engineer at the Honeywell Test Instruments Division in 1981-83, he joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1989. His research interests are in high-frequency power conversion circuits and components, in design and control of electric machine systems, and in nonlinear circuit and system theory as related to the power electronics field. Dr. Sanders is presently or has recently been active in supervising research projects in the areas of flywheel energy storage, novel electric machine design, renewable energy systems, and digital pulse-width modulation strategies and associated IC designs for power conversion applications. During the 1992-1993 academic year, he was on industrial leave with National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA. Dr. Sanders received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993 and multiple Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Power Electronics and the IEEE Industry Applications Societies. He has served as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computers in Power Electronics, and as a Member-At-Large of the IEEE PELS Adcom. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Available Talks

- 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

- Flywheel Energy Storage: The Utility Scale Energy Storage Solution

Contact Information

Seth Sanders
EECS Department, UC Berkeley
Sanders@eecs.berkeley.edu
510-652-4425