President's Message: March 2021
By Liuchen Chang
First, let me start off by wishing all PELS members and the families a happy, healthy, and successful 2021! I feel humbled and honoured to serve as the President of our society, picking up the baton handed over by Prof. Frede Blaabjerg. Please allow me to introduce myself. My wife Grace and I have been living in a small city called Fredericton in New Brunswick, Canada for the last 29 years, where I worked as a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick (UNB). Read More...
PELS News
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Call for Exhibitors: ECCE 2021 - Vancouver, Canada 10-14 Oct 2021
Call for Exhibitors The Energy Conversion Conference and Expo (ECCE) is making its West Coast...
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CFP: 2021 Design Methodologies Conference (DMC) - Hybrid - July 14-15
The IEEE Power Electronics Society is launching the first Design Methodologies Conference (DMC)...
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APEC 2021- Student Grants! Apply before 1 March
APEC 2021 Sponsors Continue Student Attendance Support Program Support of up to $1,000 offered to...
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Congratulations Philip T. Krein! IEEE Transportation Technologies Award winner
IEEE PELS Member Philip T. Krein received the 2021 IEEE Transportation Technologies Award for his...
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Congratulations Praveen K. Jain IEEE Medal in Power Engineering winner
IEEE PELS Member, Praveen K. Jain received the 2021 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering “For...
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Congratulations Robert W. Erickson! Newell Power Electronics Award Winner
Congratulations IEEE PELS Member, Robert W. Erickson who received the IEEE William E. Newell Power...
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Congratulations Kaushik Rajashekara! IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Precautions winner
IEEE PELS Member Kaushik Rajashekara received the 2021 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety...
Upcoming Events
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PELS Spring Meeting Series - March 2021
Dear PELS Members, The PELS Spring Meeting Series Schedule is now available. PELS Ad Hoc, VP and...
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From Bachelors to Fellow to Board of Directors: Fireside Chat with Electrical Engineer Duy-Loan Le
Have you ever wondered how your skills as an Electrical Engineer can be harnessed to help you grow as a...
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POWER ELECTRONICS ARE BACK-ish FOR (VIRTUAL) 2021!
The SFBAC (combined Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco, & Oakland/East Bay) IEEE Power Electronics Society...
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IEEE PELS Students and Young Professionals (virtual) Symposium: 27-29 March 2021
PELS SYPS’21 will be held virtually on 27th, 28th, and 29th of March 2021, with the theme: Let’s...
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IEEE Design Methodologies Conference (DMC) - Save the Date - Hybrid event!
The IEEE Power Electronics Society is launching the first Design Methodologies Conference (DMC)...
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IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid eGrid2020 goes fully virtual first week of November
The 5th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid eGrid2020 goes fully virtual first week of November....
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Desarrollo y Tecnología de la Energía Eólica en el Mundo: una Sucinta Visión General (Development and Technology of Wind Energy in the World: A Brief Overview)
Please join a PELS supported event, 15th Session of Online Meetings of the Worldwide Energy...
Upcoming Webinar
Opportunities and Challenges of Multiwinding Transformer-Based DC-DC Converters
This webinar is being sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society Technical Committee on Control and Modeling of Power Electronics
Tuesday, 9 March 2021 11:00 AM ET
Presenter: Marco Liserre, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Germany
Abstract: Multiwinding-Transformer-based (MWT) DC/DC converter did emerge in the last 25 years as an interesting possibility to connect several energy systems and/or to offer higher power density because of the reduction of transformer core material and reduction of power converter stages. MWT DC/DC converters can be considered as an interesting compromise between non-modular DC/DC Converter and a modular DC/DC converter since they are themselves modular in the construction. This eventually lead to some fault tolerant possibilities because the MWT connects more ports and if one of them is not working anymore and it can be isolated still the others can continue operating. Unfortunately, it is exactly the MWT which creates most of the technical challenges of this class of DC/DC converters because of the cross-coupling effects which make especially the resonant-topology very challenging to be designed. This webinar will review the history of the MWT DC/DC and then provide a classification of them, comparing them with Figure of Merits and focusing on which is the maximum possible number of windings and which are the most suited magnetic core types. The problems coming from cross-coupling and the possible fault tolerant operation are analyzed with the help of simulation and experimental results
Don't worry- you can watch them on demand or view the slides, Visit the PELS Resource Center!
Catch up on:
A Conversation with Dr. Alan Mantooth, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics
How to publish research in the IEEE Transactions and Journals
Integrated Power Delivery and Management for High Performance Digital Systems
International Technology Roadmap for Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductors
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