William A. Peterson

William began his career in power electronics at AT&T Bell Laboratories. During his 14 years at Bell Labs William developed power supplies for various central office and outside plant telephone equipment. In 1983 he joined General Electric Aerospace. During his 16 years at GE turned Lockheed Martin, William was responsible for all power supply development for their military and commercial aerospace flight and engine controls. In 1990 William spearheaded GE Aerospace’s push into non-aerospace business by developing power electronics and motor drive inverters for electric vehicle and railroad applications. In 1989 William then founded Electronic Power Conversion as a sideline business while he was working for GE In 1999 William left Lockheed Martin to pursue Electronic Power Conversion full time. In September of 2000 William merged Electronic Power Conversion with Mechanical Power Conversion to form E&M Power. In 1993 William developed a graduate course in power supply design for Binghamton University where he is an adjunct professor.

William is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is active in the Power Electronic Society and Industrial Applications Society. He is secretary of the Industrial Power Conversion Committee, is past chairman of the Industrial Lighting and Displays Committee and has been publicity chair and assistant seminar chair for the Applied Power Electronics Conference. William has 33 patents issued to him. He has published 19 papers in IEEE journals and conferences.