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WEMPEC
Wisconsin Electric Machines & Power Electronics Consortium

Education

Research

Technology
30 Years of Collaboration and Innovation 19812011

Table of contents
Co-Directors Message................................................................2

Founders Message

WEMPEC Sponsors........................................................................3
WEMPEC Faculty and Staff.......................................................4
WEMPEC History.........................................................................12
Program Activities
In the Classroom...................................................................16
In the Research Lab.............................................................18
In the Technical Community.........................................26
Facilities
WEMPEC Electronic Machines and
Power Electronics Research Lab..................................27
Family
Graduate Students...............................................................28
Alumni.........................................................................................29
Visiting Professors.................................................................34
Post-Docs and Visiting Scholars...................................36

Lipo

Novotny

he idea of an industrial support organization

and the subsequent creation of WEMPEC with
the help of people like Norb Schmitz, Ken
Phillips and others has been one of the most satisfying and rewarding experiences of our lives. When
we founded WEMPEC in 1981, little did we know
that this consortium of companies supporting our
research will likely outlive us!
Maybe WEMPEC and the WEMPEC plan was
a very good idea at exactly the right time, but the
long-term success we celebrate at the 30-year mark
owes everything to the dedication and hard work of
the faculty, students, staff, and sponsors who have
chosen to be part of the WEMPEC family. Over the
past 30 years, our students and visiting researchers
have contributed to literally every nook and cranny
of the power electronics motor drive world. We are
extremely proud of them and what they have accomplished both at UWMadison and at their present
place of employment in industry.
The WEMPEC organization has been crucial in
providing us the support and incentive to carry out
the work we love, and we both are content with the
fact that we have left WEMPEC in good hands. We
thank all of you for your part in making reality bigger
than our dreams. Long live WEMPEC (and us, too)!

Welcome
History
30 Years of Collaboration and Innovation 19812011

Greetings from WEMPEC Co-Directors Tom Jahns & Bob Lorenz!

e welcome you to this booklet

recognizing WEMPECs 30th
anniversary. Regardless of
whether you are a newcomer to WEMPEC
or a longtime friend and partner, we hope
that you will enjoy this opportunity to take
a glimpse backward at WEMPECs 30 years
of growth and to review WEMPECs current
programs and future directions. In doing
so, we hope you will note the key themes
of service to our students, to our sponsors,
and to our professional community that
have been central to WEMPECs history
and success since its inception in 1981.

We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank WEMPECs
founders, Professors Emeritus Don Novotny
and Tom Lipo, for their exceptional foresight, academic achievements, and hard
work that both have invested in WEMPEC
since its beginning. We are extremely fortunate that both of them have continued to
make valuable contributions to WEMPEC
since becoming emeritus professors. Our
grateful acknowledgment of their invaluable contributions to WEMPEC has been
accompanied by public recognition of
their outstanding technical achievements
by the international technical community.
These high honors have included the 2009
IEEE Nikola Tesla Field Award, presented
to Professor Novotny, and Professor Lipos
election to the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering in 2008.

This booklet gives us the opportunity
to highlight many of the key outcomes
resulting from the successful pursuit of
WEMPECs vision and mission. First and
foremost are the WEMPEC students. To
date, more than 330 WEMPEC graduates,
equipped with broad, multidisciplinary
technical skills and an international
outlook, have gone on to become industry

leaders in the fields of electric machines,

drives, power electronics, and controls.
Many of those alumni are employed by
our WEMPEC sponsors, and we are pleased
by the opportunities this gives many of
them to remain active in the extended
WEMPEC community.

Another major outcome of WEMPECs
unique partnership, which links the
university with industry, is the continuing
flow of state-of-the-art technical contributions to our sponsors and to the larger
international technical community. With
the sustained support and inspiration of
our sponsors and the valuable contributions of our many distinguished visiting
faculty and scholars who spend time
with us in WEMPEC, we are proud of the
international reputation that WEMPEC has
earned for sustained technical excellence
and productivity.

A third major outcome is WEMPECs
educational program, which serves not
only the on-campus students, but also a
growing number of off-campus engineers working in industry. The WEMPEC
faculty are committed to sharing their
unique educational resources with
distance learners who can take advantage of this program to earn advanced
degrees or simply to update their technical skills to meet the challenges posed
by a fast-changing global marketplace.

We would like to thank all of our
partners, including sponsors, UWMadison
colleagues, and our studentsall of whom
have combined to make WEMPEC such an
exciting and successful academic venture
during the past 30 years. We feel extremely
fortunate to be part of the WEMPEC
community, and we are committed to
doing everything necessary to ensure
WEMPECs continued success in the future.

Jahns

Lorenz

WEMPECs Mission
To maintain a tightly-coupled relationship between WEMPEC-supported
university research and educational
programs and the engineers in global
industry who sponsor and support
these programs.
To continuously improve the
WEMPEC program in order to more
effectively foster and sustain the
growth of advanced electrical energy
conversion technologies and their
industrial, commercial, residential,
consumer, automotive, and aerospace
applications.
To develop effective methodologies for transferring new knowledge
gained in WEMPEC-supported
research to all engineers in industry
who sponsor and support this
research, reflecting a long-term
commitment to career development
of engineers in our field.
To globally foster the spirit of technological innovation and progress
in electrical and electromechanical
power conversion.

WEMPECs Vision
To be the lifelong hub of a worldwide
network of engineers who are active
in all facets of power electronics and
electromechanical power conversion
and their applications.

Sponsors (as of April 2011)

A.O. Smith Corporate Technology Center
ABB Drives and Power Products
ABB Corporate Research Center (US)
ALSTOM Transport SA
American Superconductor Corp.
ANSYS Inc.
BAE SystemsE&IS
Baldor/Dodge/Reliance
Bombardier Transportation
Bucyrus International, Inc.
Caterpillar Inc.
Chrysler Group LLC
Construction and Forestry Div. of John Deere
CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research
Daikin Industries Ltd.
Danfoss Power Electronics
Delphi Electronics
DRS Power & Control Technologies Inc.
Eaton CorporationInnovation Center
Everson Tesla Inc.
Ford Motor Company R&AE
Fuji Electric Holdings Co. Ltd.
GE Global Research Center
Generac Power Systems Inc.

GM R&DWarren
Hamilton Sundstrand
Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.
Honda R&D Co. Ltd.
Honeywell International Inc.
Ingersoll Rand Industrial Technologies
John Deere Technology Innovation Center
Johnson Electric Group
JSOL Corporation
Kohler Company
Kollmorgan Corp.
L3 Communications Electron Devices
LEM U.S.A. Inc.
Magna E-Car Systems
Magna Powertrain USA Inc.
Marathon Electric Mfg. Div. of RBC
Meggitt Control Systems
Mercedes-Benz R&D, NA
Mercury Marine
Miller Electric Mfg. Co.
Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp.
MTS Systems Corp.
National Semiconductor Corp.
Nidec Motor Corp.
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Nissan Research Center

As one of the four founding member

companies of WEMPEC 30 years ago, Eaton
forges ahead to support this global, industryleading research consortium. Practicing
engineers find the research publications,
professional short courses, and industry interactions quite
valuable for acquiring and improving necessary skills to
succeed at work. Through my experiences with WEMPEC, I
believe its legacy in advanced technology innovation will
continue to benefit society in the future.
Kevin Lee, Eaton Corporation Innovation Center

WEMPEC produces outstanding caliber

engineers that hit the ground running. I
hire WEMPEC students because they are
ready to make contributions at a high level.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Orchid International Monroe, LLC
Oshkosh Corporation
Pacific Scientific OECO
Phoenix International, a John
Deere Company
Rockwell AutomationKinetix
Motion Control
Rockwell AutomationStandard Drives
Rolls-Royce NA Technologies Inc.
S&C Electric Company
Teco-Westinghouse Motor Company
Texas Instruments Inc.
TMEIC GE Automation Systems LLC
Toro Company
Toshiba International Corp.
TEMAToyota Technical Center USA Inc.
Toyota Motor Corporation - Japan
Trane Company
UNICO Inc.
United Technologies Research Center
Vestas Wind Systems A/S
Whirlpool Corporation
Woodward Engine Systems
Yaskawa Electric America Inc.

I continue to be impressed with the faculty,

students, and curriculum at WEMPEC,
as well as the depth and quality of their
research. Our sponsorship has helped us
build relationships with students to aid
in our recruitment efforts for internships and full time
employment opportunities.
Steve Lind, Phoenix International

Over the years, Miller Electric has been very

blessed to have WEMPEC as a strategic
business partner. We have hired several
grads from WEMPEC who have been topperforming engineers.
Bruce Albrecht, Miller Electric Manufacturing Co.

Richard A. Lukaszewski, Standard Drive Business

Faculty

Robert D. Lorenz
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Robert D. Lorenz, IEEE Fellow, received

his BS, MS, and PhD from the University
of WisconsinMadison and an MBA from
the University of Rochester, New York.
Since 1984, he has been on the faculty
of the UWMadison, where he is the
Consolidated Papers Foundation Professor
of Controls Engineering in Mechanical
Engineering. He is co-director of WEMPEC.
In 196667, Dr. Lorenz did his
junior year studies in electromechanical
engineering at the Monterrey Institute
of Technology, Mexico. In 196970, he
did his masters research at the Technical
University of Aachen, Germany. From
197072, he worked for the U.S. Army
as a systems test engineer at Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Maryland. From 1972
to 1982, he was research staff at the
Gleason Works in Rochester, New York,
working on high-performance drives
and synchronized motion control. He
was a visiting research professor in the
Electrical Drives Group of the Catholic
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium,
in the summer of 1989, and in the Power
Electronics & Electrical Drives Institute
of the Technical University of Aachen,
Germany, in the summers of 1987, 1991,

1995, 1997, and 1999. He also spent the

academic years 2000/2001 there as the
SEW Eurodrive Guest Professor. During the
fall semester of 2009, he was Global COE
Visiting Professor at the Power Electronics
Laboratory of the Tokyo Institute of
Technology.
His current research interests include
design of motors/actuators for self-sensing,
power electronic device junction temperature estimation and real-time control of
thermo-mechanical strain in power electronic modules, deadbeat-direct torque
and flux control for loss minimization, and
wireless power transfer technologies. He
has authored more than 230 published
technical papers and holds 24 patents.
Dr. Lorenz was the IEEE Division II
director for 200506. He is past chair of
the Periodicals Committee of the IEEE
Technical Activities Board. Dr. Lorenz was
the IEEE Industry Applications Society
(IAS) president in 2001, a distinguished
lecturer of the IEEE IAS in 200001,
and served as chair of the IAS Awards
Department and IAS Industrial Drives
Committee. Dr. Lorenz was awarded
the IEEE IAS Outstanding Achievement
Award in 2003, honoring his technological developments in the application
of electricity to industry. He has been a
member of the executive committee of
the IET (UK) technical network on power
conversion since 2000 and a member of
the EPE International Steering Committee
since 1998. In 2006, he received the EPE
PEMC Outstanding Achievement Award
for his contributions to advanced motor
drive control. In 2010, he was awarded an

Selected Publications
M.L. Spencer and R.D. Lorenz, Analysis
and In-Situ Measurement of ThermalMechanical Strain in Active Silicon Power
Semiconductors, Proc. of IEEE IAS Conf.
Oct. 59, 2008, Edmonton, Canada.
P.E. Schneider and R.D. Lorenz,
Integrating Giant Magneto-Resistive
(GMR) Field Detectors for High
Bandwidth Current Sensing in Power
Electronic Modules, Proc. of IEEE
Energy Conversion Congress and
Exposition (ECCE2010), September
1216, 2010, Atlanta, GA.
N. Limsuwan, Y. Shibukawa, D. Reigosa,
and R.D. Lorenz, Novel Design of
Flux-Intensifying Interior Permanent
Magnet Synchronous Machine
Suitable for Power Conversion and
Self-Sensing Control at Very Low
Speed, Proc. of IEEE Energy Conversion
Congress and Exposition (ECCE2010),
Sept. 1216, 2010, Atlanta, GA.
S.C. Yang, T. Suzuki, R.D. Lorenz, and
T.M. Jahns, Surface Permanent
Magnet Synchronous Machine SelfSensing Design for Sensorless Position
Estimation at Low Speed Application,
Proc. of IEEE Energy Conversion
Congress and Exposition (ECCE2010),
Sept. 12-16, 2010, Atlanta, GA.

honorary doctorate from the University of

Stephen the Great, in Suceava, Romania.
He has won 25 IEEE prize paper awards.
He is a member of the IAS Industrial
Drives, Electrical Machines, Industrial
Power Converter, and Power Electrical
Devices and Components committees.
Since 1999, he has been the IEEE ISA
representative on the IEEE Sensor Council
AdCorn. He is also a member of the ASME,
ISA and SPIE. Dr. Lorenz is a registered
professional engineer in the states of New
York and Wisconsin.

Thomas M. Jahns
Professor
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering

Thomas M. Jahns, IEEE Fellow, received

the SB and SM degrees in 1974 and
the PhD degree in 1978 from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, all in
electrical engineering. Dr. Jahns joined
the faculty of the University of Wisconsin
Madison in 1998 as a Grainger Professor of
Power Electronics and Electric Machines
in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering. He is a co-director
of WEMPEC and the Wisconsin Power
Electronics Research Center (WisPERC), as
well as research director of the Center for
Renewable Energy Systems (CRES).
Prior to coming to UWMadison, Dr.
Jahns worked for 15 years in GE Corporate
Research and Development (now GE
Global Research Center) in Niskayuna,
New York, where he pursued new power
electronics and motor drive technology
in a variety of research and management
positions. While at GE he made many new
technical contributions in the areas of
high-performance AC permanent magnet
and switched reluctance machines for
applications that range from aerospace
power-by-wire actuators to direct-drive
washing machines. During 199698,

Dr. Jahns conducted a research sabbatical

at MIT, where he directed research activities in the area of advanced automotive
electrical systems and accessories as
co-director of an industry-sponsored
automotive consortium.
Since arriving at UWMadison in
1998, Dr. Jahns has continued to pursue
his interest in AC permanent magnet (PM)
synchronous machines. This research has
led to significant new PM machine developments including the extension of their
capabilities for electric traction applications that require wide speed ranges of
constant-power operation. Dr. Jahns also
has continuing research interests that
include renewable energy, microgrids,
battery management, and techniques
for combining power electronics and AC
machines into integrated motor drives.
In 2005, Dr. Jahns received the IEEE
Nikola Tesla Technical Field Award for
pioneering contributions to the design
and application of AC permanent magnet
machines. Dr. Jahns is also a past recipient
of the IEEE William E. Newell Award,
presented in 1999 by the IEEE Power
Electronics Society (PELS) as its highest
award for technical achievement in the
field of power electronics.
Dr. Jahns has been recognized as a
distinguished lecturer by the IEEE Industry
Applications Society (IAS) during 199495
and by IEEE-PELS during 19982000. He
has served as president of the Power
Electronics Society (199596) and as a
member of the Industry Applications
Society Executive Board from 1992 to
2001. In 2007, he received the IEEE-PELS

Selected Publications
P.B. Reddy, T.M. Jahns, T.P. Bohn,
Modeling and Analysis of Proximity
Losses in High-Speed Surface
PM Machines with Concentrated
Windings, in Proc. of 2010 IEEE Energy
Conv. Congress & Expo (ECCE 10),
Atlanta, Sep. 2010, pp. 9961003.
S-H Han, T.M. Jahns, Z-Q Zhu, Analysis
of Rotor Core Eddy-Current Losses
in Interior Permanent-Magnet
Synchronous Machines, IEEE Trans. on
Industry Applications, Vol. 46, Jan./Feb.
2010, pp. 196205.
A.M. EL-Refaie, T.M. Jahns, Impact of
Winding Layer Number and Magnet
Type on Synchronous Surface PM
Machines Designed for Wide ConstantPower Speed Range Operation, IEEE
Trans. on Energy Conversion, Vol. 23,
Mar. 2008, pp. 5360.
S. Krishnamurthy, T.M. Jahns, R.H.
Lasseter, The Operation of Diesel
Gensets in a CERTS Microgrid, in Proc. of
2008 IEEE Power & Energy Society Gen.
Meeting, Pittsburgh, Jul. 2008, pp. 18.
K. Lee, T.M. Jahns, T.A. Lipo, G.
Venkataramanan, W.E. Berkopec,
Impact of Input Voltage Sag and
Unbalance on dc Link Inductor
and Capacitor Stress in Adjustable
Speed Drives, IEEE Trans. on Industry
Applications, Vol. 44, Nov/Dec 2008,
pp. 18251833.

Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his sustained contributions to

the Power Electronics Society. Dr. Jahns
has also served two years (200102) as
an elected member of the IEEE Board
of Directors in the position of Division II
director/delegate.

Faculty

Giri Venkataramanan
Professor
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering

Giri Venkataramanan studied electrical

engineering at the Government College
of Technology, Coimbatore, India, and
received his BS from the University of
Madras, India. He moved to the United
States to continue his studies and obtained
his MS and PhD from the California
Institute of Technology and the University
of WisconsinMadison, respectively.
At Wisconsin, he worked on several
projects, including aircraft power conversion, resonant DC link converters, and
unity power factor power converters.
During his doctoral studies, he also
completed an industrial internship at GE
Corporate Research and Development in
Schenectady, New York, and an academic
internship at the Institute for Power
Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen
University of Technology in Germany.
While in Madison, he was also active in
bringing out several editions of a student
newsletter, The Wempecker.
Upon graduation, Dr. Venkataramanan
moved west to take a teaching
appointment at Montana State University
Bozeman. For seven years, he taught
electrical engineering, developed several
courses, and designed and commissioned

a power electronics and drives lab. He has

focused his research on the development
of pulse width modulated AC-AC power
conversion technology. He completed
several research projects in the area of
utility power electronics and control and
power quality funded by NSF, NASA, EPRI,
and several private industries.
Dr. Venkataramanan returned to
UWMadison as a faculty member in 1999.
Since his return, he has been active in
expanding and modernizing the laboratory infrastructure, while continuing
to direct research in various areas of
power conversion. He has been actively
conducting research in the areas of power
converter topologies, microgrids, wind
power systems, grid interface for electric
vehicles and utility scale power electronic
systems. He is an active member in the IEEE
Industry Applications Society, participating
in various technical committees of the
Industrial Power Conversion Department.
He holds seven U.S. patents and regularly
contributes to various power electronics
conferences and journals.
Dr. Venkataramanan complements
his interests in power electronics with
educational activism both inside and
outside the classroom, developing handson student projects aimed at increasing
learning effectiveness and addressing
energy development issues. In recognition of his teaching excellence he won
the Gerald Holdridge Teaching Award,
the 2008 Benjamin Smith Reynolds
Award for Excellence in Teaching and
the UWMadison Chancellors Award for
Distinguished Teaching. He serves as the

Selected Publications
D. Ludois, J. Reed, G.Venkataramanan,
Hierarchal Control of Bridge of Bridge
Power Converters, IEEE Transactions
on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 57, no, 8,
pp. 2679-90, Aug. 2010.
M. Illindala, G. Venkataramanan,
Small Signal Stability of a Microgrid
with Parallel Connected Distributed
Generation, Special Issue on
Smartgrids: Microgrid Systems,
International Journal of Intelligent
Automation & Soft Computing, Vol. 16,
No. 2, 2010. Invited paper.
P. Flannery, G. Venkataramanan, A
Fault Tolerant Doubly Fed Induction
Generator Wind Turbine Using a Parallel
Grid Side Rectifier and Series Grid Side
Converter, IEEE Transactions on Power
Electronics, Special Issue on Wind
Power, May 2008, Page(s): 1126 1135.
F. Mancilla-David, S. Bhattacharya,
G. Venkataramanan, A Comparative
Evaluation of Series Power Flow
Controllers Using DC and AC Link
Converters. IEEE Transactions on
Power Delivery, vol. 22, April 2008,
Page(s):985 996
M. Illindala, A. Siddiqui, G.
Venkataramanan, and C. Marnay,
Localized aggregation of diverse
energy sources for rural electrification using microgrids, Journal of
Energy Engineering-ASCE, vol. 133, pp.
121-131, Sep 2007.

faculty advisor for the Engineers Without

Borders and HKN student organizations.
He is known on campus for his leadership in developing the undergraduate
Certificate in Engineering for Energy
Sustainability, his work on small scale
wind turbine and photovoltaic installations, and inspiring students on various
sustainability activities across the board.

Yehui Han
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering

Yehui Han received his bachelors degree

with honors from Tsinghua University,
Beijing, P.R. China, in 2000, as well as his
masters degree in 2003. He earned his
PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
in 2010, all in electrical engineering. Dr.
Han is a recipient of the MIT Landsman
Fellowship in 2007.
Dr. Han is currently an assistant
professor with the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at
the University of WisconsinMadison,
and is affiliated with the Wisconsin
Electric Machines and Power Electronics

Consortium (WEMPEC). He teaches power

electronics courses at Wisconsin. Dr. Hans
primary research interests are power
electronics and their applications in
renewable energy and energy efficiency.
He has conducted research in the range
from several watts (as in power supply) to
tens of megawatts (as in FACTS). Dr. Hans
ongoing research focuses on developing
new circuit designs, novel magnetic
components and means of applying new
devices (GaN and SiC) to achieve orders
of magnitude increase in frequency over
the current state-of-art while maintaining
high efficiency. His research reduces
the size (and ultimately cost) of power
electronics. This, in turn, opens up new
possibilities for how power electronics
can be designed and applied. Dr. Han
received the IEEE Power Electronics
Society Transactions Prize Paper Award
and the IEEE Power Electronics Specialists
Conference Prize Paper Award, both in
2008. He holds three patents.

Selected Publications
Y. Han, and D. J. Perreault, Inductor
design methods with low-permeability RF core materials, IEEE Energy
Conversion Congress and Exposition,
pp. 43764383, Sept. 2010.
Y. Han, G. Cheung, A. Li, C. R. Sullivan,
and D. J. Perreault, Evaluation of
magnetic materials for very high
frequency power applications,
IEEE Power Electronics Specialists
Conference, pp. 42704276, Jun. 2008.
J. M. Rivas, O. Leitermann, Y. Han, and
D. J. Perreault, A very high frequency
dc-dc converter based on a class
Phi-_2 resonant inverter, IEEE Power
Electronics Specialists Conference, pp.
16571666, Jun. 2008.
Y. Han, O. Leitermann, D. A. Jackson, J.
M. Rivas, and D. J. Perreault, Resistance
compression networks for radiofrequency power conversion, IEEE
Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.
22, no. 1, pp 4153, Jan. 2007.
Y. Han, and D. J. Perreault, Analysis and
design of high efficiency matching
networks, IEEE Transactions on
Power Electronics, vol. 21, no. 5, pp.
14841491, Sept. 2006.

Faculty

Donald W. Novotny
Professor Emeritus
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering

Donald W. Novotny, IEEE Fellow, received

his BS and MS degrees in electrical
engineering from the Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago, in 1956 and 1957,
and his PhD degree from the University of
WisconsinMadison in 1961. Since 1961,
Dr. Novotny has been a member of the
faculty at the University of Wisconsin
Madison, where he is currently Grainger
Professor Emeritus of Power Electronics
and co-founder and former co-director of
WEMPEC. He retired from full-time activity
in 1996 but continues teaching part-time.
From 1976 to 1980, he served as
chairman of the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. He also
served as an associate director of the
University-Industry Research Program
from 1972 to 1974 and from 1980 to
1993. He has been active as a consultant
to many organizations and a visiting
professor at Montana State University;
the Technical University of Eindhoven,
Eindhoven, Netherlands; the Catholic
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;
and a Fulbright Lecturer at the University
of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

Dr. Novotnys teaching and research

interests include electric machines,
variable frequency drive systems, and
power electronic control of industrial
systems. He is the coauthor of three
textbooks on electro-mechanical systems;
has contributed chapters on variable
speed drive systems in two handbooks
on electric machines and drives; and
has published more than 100 technical
articles on electric machines, variable
frequency drives, and power electronic
control of industrial systems. He has
received eleven prize paper awards from
the IEEE Industry Applications Society
and other groups, and three awards for
outstanding teaching from the University
of WisconsinMadison, the College of
Engineering, and the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Other awards include the IEEE-IAS
Outstanding Achievement Award in 1998,
the 2009 IEEE-PES Nikola Tesla Award,
and a Third Millennium Award from
IEEE-IAS in 2000. In addition to his regular
university teaching, he has been very
active in continuing education through
short courses and seminars for industry,
IEEE tutorials, and videotape courses
for off-campus graduate study. He also
served for twelve years as chairman of
the Electrical Engineering Program for the
National Technological University (NTU).
Dr. Novotny is a registered professional
engineer in Wisconsin.

Selected Publications
N.H. Kutkut, H.L.N. Wiegman, D.M.
Divan and D.W. Novotny, Design
Considerations for Charge Equalization
of an Electric Vehicle Battery System,
IEEE-IAS Trans., Vol. 35, No. 1, January/
February 1999, pp 2835.
M.S. Rauls, D.W. Novotny, D.M. Divan,
R.R. Bacon, and R.W. Gascoigne,
Multiturn High-Frequency Coaxial
Winding Power Transformers,
IEEE Industry Applications Society
Transactions, Vol. 31, No. 1, January/
February 1995, pp. 11235.
R. DeDoncker and D.W. Novotny, The
Universal Field Oriented Controller,
IEEE Transactions on Industry
Applications, Vol. 30, No. 1, January/
February 1994, pp. 92100.
I.T. Wallace, R.D. Lorenz, D.W.
Novotny, and D.M. Divan, Increasing
the Dynamic Torque Per Ampere
Capability of Induction Machines,
IEEE Industry Applications Society
Transactions, Vol. 30, No. 1, January/
February 1994, pp. 146153.
X. Xu and D.W. Novotny, Selection
of the Flux Reference for Induction
Machine Drives in the Field Weakening
Region, IEEE Industry Applications
Society Transactions, Vol. 28, No.
6, November/December 1992, pp.
13531358.

Thomas A. Lipo
Professor Emeritus
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering

Thomas A. Lipo is an IEEE Fellow, Fellow

of the IET (London), and Fellow of both
the National Academy of Engineers (USA)
and the Royal Academy of Engineering
(UK). He is a director emeritus of WEMPEC
as well as one of the consortiums original
founders. He earned his BEE with honors
from Marquette University in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, in 1962, as well as his MSEE in
1964. He then completed his PhD work at
UWiMadison in 1968. Before returning to
UWMadison as an electrical engineering
professor and the co-founder/director
of WEMPEC/WisPERC in 1981, Dr. Lipo
worked for Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing
Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and
General Electric in Schenectady, New York.
He was also professor in the Department
of Electrical Engineering at Purdue
University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in
198081. Dr. Lipo has been a visiting fellow
at the University of Manchester Institute
of Science and Technology, Cambridge
University and Sheffield University,
England, and the University of Sydney and
Monash University, Australia. He was a
Fulbright Fellow at University of Trondheim,
Norway during the year 2008.
Dr. Lipos major area of interest is
the discipline of power electronics and
electrical machines, particularly as they

apply to variable speed operation of AC

machines. He believes that one challenging aspect of research in this area is its
multidisciplinary nature: the fundamentals
of solid state devices, integrated circuits,
control theory, computer simulation,
microprocessors, circuit theory, and electric
machines are all brought into play before
a satisfactory design can be realized. His
most recent projects include the design of
machines with unconventional winding
configurations, materials, and/or geometries that will operate more harmoniously
with minimum switch count solid state
frequency converters. These projects
require not only design and construction
of the machine but also the associated
power electronic converter and controller.
Dr. Lipo enjoys such interesting challenges which are multifaceted and firmly
embedded in the real world.
Dr. Lipo holds numerous distinguished
awards and honors. In 1986, he received
the Outstanding Achievement Award of
the IEEE Industry Applications Society for
contributions to industrial AC drives. In June
2000, he received the IEEE Third Millennium
Medal for contributions to IEEE from the
IEEE Power Electronics Society. In February
1995, he was awarded the IEEE Nikola Tesla
Field Award for pioneering contributions
to simulation of and application to electric
machinery in solid-state AC motor drives.
He was an IEEE distinguished lecturer for
both the PES and IAS Societies (199294). In
June 1990, Dr. Lipo received the William E.
Newell Award of the IEEE Power Electronics
Society for contributions to power electronics. In 2002, he was made a Fellow of
the British Royal Academy of Engineering,
a distinction held by only 40 other
researchers in the U.S. In 2004 he received

Selected Publications
S. Chen and T.A. Lipo, Bearing Currents
and Shaft Voltages of an Induction
Motor Under Hard and Soft-Switching
Inverter Excitation, IEEE Industry
Applications Society Transactions, Vol.
34, No. 5, September/October 1998,
pp. 10421048.
H. Toliyat and T.A. Lipo, Analysis of
Concentrated Winding Induction
Machines for Adjustable Speed Drive
Applications -Experimental Results,
IEEE Transactions on Energy
Conversion, Vol. 9, No. 4, December
1994, pp. 695700.
F. Liang, Y. Liao, and T.A. Lipo, A New
Variable Reluctance Motor Utilizing
an Auxiliary Commutation Winding,
IEEE Industry Applications Society
Transactions, Vol. 30, No. 2, March/April
1994, pp. 423432.
T.A. Rowan and T.A. Lipo, A
Quantitative Analysis of Induction
Motor Performance Improvement by
SCR Voltage Control, IEEE Industry
Applications Society Transactions, Vol.
1A19, No. 4, July/August 1983, pp.
545553.
T.A. Lipo and A.B. Plunkett, A Novel
Approach to Induction Motor Transfer
Functions, IEEE Transactions on
Power Applications and Systems, Vol.
PAS83, September/October 1974, pp.
14101418.

the Hilldale Award from the University of

Wisconsin, the highest honor bestowed by
the university for research excellence. He
is only the fourth faculty member in the
College of Engineering and the first in the
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering to have received this award.
Dr. Lipo has published five books and more
than 500 technical papers, of which more
than 200 are in the IEEE Transactions. He is
also the recipient of 38 U.S. Patents.

Faculty

Robert H. Lasseter

Robert H. Lasseter received his PhD

in physics from the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1971. He
was a consulting engineer at General
Electric Co. until he joined the University
of WisconsinMadison in 1980. His
research interests focus on the application
of power electronics to utility systems.
This work includes microgrids, interfacing
distributed energy resources and renewable to the power distribution system,
control of the power transmission systems

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Selected Publications

Professor Emeritus
Department of of Electrical
and Computer Engineering

R.Lasseter, Smart Distribution;

Coupled Microgrids, Special Issue of
Proceedings of IEEE, The Smart Grid,
March/April 2011

through FACTS controllers and the use of

power electronics in distribution systems.
For the last 10 years he has been the
technical lead for the CERTS Microgrid test
project at AEP. Professor Lasseter is a Life
Fellow of IEEE, and an IEEE distinguished
lecturer on distributed generation.
CERTS is an organization of four
national laboratories (LBNL, SNL, ORNL,
PNNL) and PSerc. The Consortium for
Electric Reliability Technology Solutions
was formed in 1999 to research, develop,
and disseminate new methods, tools, and
technologies to protect and enhance
the reliability of the U.S. electric power
system. CERTS research covers three
principal areas: real-time grid reliability
management, reliability and markets, and
distributed energy resources integration.
Professor Lasseter is the technical leader
of this third area for CERTS. Learn more at
certs.lbl.gov/DER.html.

R. Lasseter, J. H. Eto, B. Schenkman,

J. Stevens, H. Volkmmer, D. Klapp, E.
Linton, H. Hurtado, and J. Roy, CERTS
Microgrid Laboratory Test Bed, IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery,
February 2011.
R. Lasseter, Microgrids and Distributed
Generation, International Journal
on Intelligent Automation & Soft
Computation, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2010.
H. Nikkhajoei, R. Lasseter, Distributed
Generation Interface to the CERTS
Microgrid, IEEE Transactions on Power
Delivery, Volume 24, issue 3, July 2009.
B. Kroposki, R. Lasseter, T. Ise, S.
Morozumi, S. Papathanassiou, and
N. Hatziargyriou, Making Microgrids
Work, IEEE Power & Energy Magazine,
May/June 2008.
Lasseter, Robert H., Paolo Piagi,
Microgrid: A Conceptual Solution,
PESC 04 Aachen, Germany, 2025,
June 2004.
Lasseter, R. H., Control of Distributed
Resources, Invited paper Bulk Power
Systems Dynamics and Control IV;
Restructuring, Santorini, Greece,
August 2328, 1998.

Affiliate Staff
Mitch Bradt
Program Director, Department of
Engineering Professional Development

Mitch has been a program director in

the UWMadison College of Engineering
since 2006, delivering continuing education in the areas of power electronics and
machines (with WEMPEC), wind/alternative
energy, electrical distribution, and electrical
safety. He is a professional engineer in
Illinois and Wisconsin, the chair of the IEEEs
Wind and Solar Plant Collector System
Working Group, and a past chair of the
Madison, Wisconsin, section of IEEE.

Helene Demont
Mitch Bradt received his masters degree
in electrical engineering with a focus on
utility application of power electronics
from the University of WisconsinMadison
in 1996, with Professor Bob Lasseter
as his advisor. While in grad school, he
spent two years as a special research
associate at Kyoto University in Kyoto,
Japan, from 199496. He had previously
received a bachelors degree in electrical
engineering, cum laude, from Marquette
University.
From 1996 through 2001, Bradt
served in the U.S. Air Force, developing
and testing aircraft electrical systems
and aircraft survivability. He later
worked in industryfirst at American
Superconductor and later as a consulting
engineer. He commissioned STATCOM
and SMES systems installed in transmission substations at AMSC. Later, he
designed on substations, system protection installations, and renewable energy
balance-of-plant installations.

Credit Courses
at a Distance
(CCD) Program
Manager,
Department
of Engineering
Professional
Development
Helene Demont
has been
involved with
continuing engineering education since
1986. She has been active in the American
Society of Engineering Education (ASEE),
serving as general conference chair
(2008), program chair (2005, 2000), division chair (200305) and board secretary
(200003, 20072010).
Her role with Credit Courses at a
Distance (CCD) is to serve as the liaison
between off-campus students and the
UWMadison faculty and administration.
Students kindly refer to her as Mother
Outreach, as she provides assistance with
every detail, making the process as seamless as possible.

Credit Courses at a Distance (CCD) is

administered through the Department of
Engineering Professional Development
(EPD) in the College of Engineering.
In addition to the six online masters
programs offered, engineers and technical
professionals can choose from more than
300 short courses, some of which can also
be delivered to your site.
Helene has three grown daughters. She earned a certificate in distance
learning administration from UWMadison
in 2008 and will complete her bachelor
of science in public administration from
Upper Iowa University in May 2011.
Helene plans to earn her masters degree
in higher-ed administration.

Ray
Marion
WEMPEC,
Instrument
Specialist
Raymond Marion
is the manager
of the WEMPEC
research laboratory. He received a BSEE with high honors
from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Ray has worked at several
companies involved in power electronics,
medical electronics, and audio electronics.
He joined WEMPEC in 1993 and has been
instrumental in the development of and
modifications to the labs to achieve their
current level of modernization. He holds
a patent in the area of battery charge
equalization.

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History

n the 1970s rising energy prices

coupled with developments in the
emerging field of power electronics
were creating a major worldwide expansion in power engineering activity. The
UWMadison faculty in electric machines
recognized the need to expand the UW
program to become a dominant player in
this growth area. To reinforce the need for
this expansion, it was decided to enlist the
support of Wisconsin industry, and in the
spring of 1980 a preliminary proposal for
an industrial support group was developed by Professors Donald W. Novotny
and Norbert L. Schmitz. Initial contact
was established with Professor Thomas A.
Lipo (then at Purdue University) with the
goal of attracting him to Wisconsin. With
Professor Lipos assistance, the proposal
was modified and expanded, and he was
named as the faculty member to be hired.
The preliminary proposal was
discussed with a small group of industrial contacts consisting of Steve Bomba
of Allen-Bradley Co. and Roy Hyink and

WEMPEC lab, 1980s.

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Ken Phillips of Eaton Corp. (then Cutler

Hammer Inc). Discussion and modification
of the proposal occupied several months
and resulted in the final Program Plan used
to create the Wisconsin Electric Machines
and Power Electronics Consortium

and service components, the overall

program was designed to create a close
working relationship between program
faculty, students, and industrial sponsors. Emphasis was on generic research
projects of a basic and widely applicable

No other part of my education has had more enduring value than

my experiences at WEMPEC. The quality of people, instruction
and facilities fosters a unique intellectual environment and
collaborative opportunity. As a member of industry, I know that
WEMPEC graduates are imbued with the right balance of theoretical
knowledge and hands on experience to contribute immediately at a
high level and continually push the state of the art.
Patrick Flannery (MS 2003, PhD 2008,
American Superconductor Corp.
(WEMPEC). The program plan outlined the
goals, administrative structure, and operation of the consortium and has served with
remarkably few changes to the present
time. Incorporating educational, research

nature and means for rapidly communicating the results to the sponsors.
Expanded programs of resident instruction
and continuing education courses were
also emphasized. The Wisconsin Alumni
Research Foundation (WARF) was designated to handle any patents developed
in the program. The sponsor contribution
was set at $5,000 per year with a maximum
of three sponsorship units available to a
single company.
The program was formally initiated
in January 1981 with three sponsors: Allen
Bradley Co., the Graham Co., and Eaton/
Cutler Hammer. Professor Lipo joined
the faculty in January 1981, and by the
end of the year, six additional companies,
including Love AC, Rexnord Corp., Reliance
Electric Co., Sta Rite Industries, Unico,
and A.O. Smith, became part of the list of
charter sponsors. The first WEMPEC Review
Meeting was held at Union South on April
21, 1982, at which time there were 12
sponsors. The program summary for the
first 15 months of operation listed nine
graduate students, two visiting professors,

and three visiting scholars. A total of 11

WEMPEC reports were completed, three
short courses were offered, and a total of
24 projects were started, completed or
continued during the period. There were
34 industrial representatives in attendance
at this first review meeting.
From 1982 to 1985, the program grew
in terms of industrial sponsors, students,
and visiting professors and scholars. The
first MS degree (Tim Rowan) was awarded
in 1982 and the first PhD (Daniel Kirschen)
in 1985. The focus of the research within
WEMPEC during this early period was
primarily on electric drive systems with
much of the work related to energy
conservation and efficiency improvement.
High performance, field oriented drives
were also a major developing technology
and a number of research projects and
tutorial reports were devoted to this area.
In December 1984, Professor Robert
D. Lorenz joined the UW Department
of Mechanical Engineering faculty.
Through an affiliate appointment in the
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering (ECE), he became a WEMPEC
faculty member, allowing expansion of
WEMPEC into motion control applications
and control design. In the spring of 1985,
Professor Deepak M. Divan joined the ECE
faculty and also became a member of the
WEMPEC faculty, adding much needed
expertise in power electronics.
While the initial WEMPEC membership was comprised of traditional electrical
manufacturing companies, the expanded
activity in power electronics and control
attracted participation from electronic
equipment manufacturers, control specialists, machine tool companies, and others
interested in the myriad applications of
power electronics and controls. The scope
of WEMPEC activity was again expanded
to include power system applications in
1988 by the addition of Professor Robert

WEMPEC lab, 1990s.

H. Lasseter. This year also brought the

first company sponsor with headquarters outside the United States (Goldstar
Industrial Systems Co.), which was quickly
followed by several others.
In 1988, the first of several Research
Summaries was produced, bringing
together in one volume the tutorial and
research activities of WEMPEC in the area
of field orientation and high performance
control. The format of the WEMPEC Review
Meeting was also modified to include
tutorial presentations and the meeting
was expanded to one and a half days.
The 10-year anniversary meeting,
held on April 17, 1991, was attended by
more than 140 representatives from 41
companies. During the tenth year of operation there were 47 graduate students
in the program, nine of whom received
degrees and a total of 52 separate
research projects were listed for the year.
The new Grainger Electric Machines and
Power Electronics Laboratory, funded at a
level of nearly $1 million (with more than
$600,000 from The Grainger Foundation),

was dedicated at the meeting. The

laboratory served very well with no
major modifications until the laboratory
improvement efforts initiated in 1998.
Over the first 10 years of operation, a
total of over $1.6 million in sponsor contributions provided the base funding for a
program that had grown to be one of the
largest of its kind in the U.S., involving more
than 80 different graduate students and
awarding more than 40 advanced degrees.
By 1993, the program had reached
a size where full-time administrative
support was essential and Ms. Kathy Torok
was hired as an administrative assistant.
She continued in this position until
October 2000, when Ms. Bonnie Johnson
filled her position beginning in January
2001. The initiation of the newsletter
WEMPEC Review coincided with the addition of the WEMPEC administrator in 1993.
The WEMPEC library and conference room
were completed in 1994, providing both
a research library and space for meeting
with the many company representatives

13

History

First Grainger instructional lab, 19902000.

As a WEMPEC student, I had the opportunity to learn from the worlds

leaders in electric machines and power electronics. Industry funding
and engagement was strong, supporting technology transfer and
employment opportunities. Now as a WEMPEC sponsor, I look for
students to hire and advanced technology to incorporate into our
products.
Matthew L. Spencer (MS 2007)John Deer Product Development Center

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coming to campus to discuss projects and

meet with students.
In June 1996, Professor Novotny
announced his retirement. He has
continued to participate in WEMPEC
activities by teaching on campus and
Outreach courses and participating in
WEMPEC staff meetings.
The five years between 1996 and 2001
were a time of rapid change of personnel,
organization, laboratory facilities, and
technology. Professor Deepak Divan left
the university, first on leave and then

permanently in August 1998, to start and

run his own company. Randy Gascoigne,
who managed the WEMPEC laboratory from 1988 to 1995 and served as a
consultant until 2000, also left to be part
of Professor Divans start-up company. In
the fall of 1998, Professor Thomas M. Jahns
joined the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and the WEMPEC
program, and in the fall of 1999, Professor
Giri Venkataramanan accepted a position,
bringing the number of WEMPEC faculty
back up to the pre1996 level of five

professors. Ray Marion, who had participated in the laboratory on a part-time

basis, became the lab manager following
the resignation of Randy Gascoigne.
From August 1998 to July 2008,
WEMPEC participated with Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and three other
schools in an NSF Center called the
Center for Power Electronic Systems
(CPES). Professor Lipo served as the CPES
Campus Director for UWMadison and
Professor Lorenz and Professor Jahns
were technical thrust area leaders. Many
WEMPEC students participated in CPES
projects and in other CPES educational
and research activities. An arrangement
was made which allowed any WEMPEC
sponsor to automatically become an
associate member of CPES. At this time,
the WEMPEC sponsor contribution was
increased to $10,000 to better reflect
increased graduate student stipends and
other rising costs.
Professor Annette Muetze accepted
an appointment as assistant professor
in May 2004 and became a WEMBEC
faculty member. Professor Muetzes area
of interest was electric machine design
and analysis as related to electric drives. In
July 2004, Professor Bob Lasseter retired,
but has continued his research in the area
of microgrids with only limited participation in WEMPEC. Randy Gascoigne
rejoined the WEMPEC program in 2004
with responsibility for the second generation laboratory upgrade funded by the
Grainger Foundation.
During the evolution and growth of
WEMPEC, the teaching program incorporating regular credit courses, credit
and non-credit Outreach courses, short
courses, and tutorials has grown and
developed to keep pace with technology
and the needs of students and sponsors.
The number of regular credit courses
has increased from seven in 1981 to 19

participation in CPES as that program

in 2010 and, because of the number of
reached the end of its 10-year life, and the
WEMPEC students (including Outreach
departure of Professor Annette Muetze
students), the courses have been run on
after three years to accept a position
a regular schedule with very few cancelin England. There was also a change in
lations. The first videotaped Outreach
administrative support as Bonnie Johnson
course was produced in 1984; now in
retired after eight years with WEMPEC,
2010 there are 16 WEMPEC courses availand was replaced by Sandra Finn in 2009.
able through the Outreach program. The
Over the first 30 years of operation,
growth of the Credit Courses at a Distance
approximately 120 PhDs and 280 MS
(CCD)/ fomerly Outreach program in
degrees have been awarded. WEMPEC
recent years has resulted in the number
research activity has resulted in more
of graduate students taking most of
than 1,200 individual project descriptions
their coursework via Outreach courses
listed in the annual WEMPEC Program
becoming about equal to the number
Summaries. The results of this research
of regular on campus WEMPEC students.
have been reported in more than 750
WEMPEC faculty have published five
WEMPEC Research Reports, and in four
textbooks over the 30 year duration of
WEMPEC and, in addition, more
than 50 sets of the recorded
lectures of the Outreach credit
courses have been sold or
rented for use as in-house
courses by WEMPEC sponsors
and other organizations.
The most recent five years
of WEMPEC activity has seen a
rapid expansion and a growing
diversity of sponsors coupled
with a continuation of the
number and quality of graduate
students, visiting scholars and
faculty from around the world.
The demand for WEMPEC
graduates as future employees
is intense, implying that the goal
of producing very high quality
graduates is being met in the
eyes of the world. Significant
recent events include: the
retirement of Professor Lipo
in 2008 after a distinguished
46-year career in industry and
academia, completion of the
second generation test stands
in the Grainger Laboratory, the
WEMPEC lab, early 2000s.
termination of WEMPEC faculty

research summary volumes. In addition

to the regular schedule of credit courses
and Outreach courses, nearly 75 short
courses have been offered over the 30
year period.
The international reputation of the
WEMPEC program has attracted more
than 120 visiting faculty members from
all over the world to spend sabbatical
time of three months or more in Madison.
There have been an even larger number
of visiting scholars including many postdocs and doctoral candidates who have
spent time in the WEMPEC community
over this same period. Many significant
aspects of WEMPEC research activity
resulted from the interactions fostered by
these visits.
All of this has been made
possible by a cumulative total
of over $10 million in sponsor
contributions and by the enthusiastic support and countless
hours of participation in seminars, individual meetings and
attendance at annual meetings
by the engineers and managers
in our sponsors organizations.
The 30th year, with 74
sponsors and 80 graduate
studentshalf of whom are off
campus with their coursework
delivered via the weband
over 40 active research projects,
is far larger and stronger than
any early vision and plan for
WEMPEC. The WEMPEC faculty,
staff, and students are dedicated
to continuing this tradition of
excellence and program growth.

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History Activities
Program

WEMPEC in the Classroom

Campus Classroom
The WEMPEC faculty have developed
and continue to evolve a full range of
semester-long courses in the fields of
electrical machines, power electronics,
AC drives, power systems, renewable
energy, and real-time control of electromechanical systems. During the past 30
years since WEMPEC began, the growth
of the faculty and financial resources
and the increased number of students
has resulted in an increase from seven
courses in 198182 to the present 20
courses taught in cooperation with other
faculty colleagues in the electrical and
computer engineering and mechanical
engineering departments. Most of these
courses are offered for credit as digitally
recorded lectures through the University
of WisconsinMadison College of
Engineering Credit Courses at a Distance
(CCD) program, noted in the list below
with asterisks. The following undergraduate courses are taught at least once each
academic year:

ECE 304Electric Machines Lab

ECE 355Electromechanical Energy
Conversion *
ECE 356Electrical Power Processing for
Renewable Energy Systems
ECE 377Fundamentals of Electrical and
Electromechanical Power Conversion *
In addition, Professor Giri Venkataramanan
has delivered special courses that offer
undergraduates the opportunity to gain
hands-on experience building power
converters and wind turbines. These courses
help attract new students into the field.
Starting with three courses in 198182,
there are now a total of nine courses
offered at the senior graduate level, two
of which are laboratory courses. These are
typically taught once per year.
ECE 411Introduction to Electric Drive
Systems *
ECE 412Power Electronic Circuits *
ECE 427Electric Power Systems *
ME 446Automatic Controls *

WEMPEC and the Credit Courses at a Distance program provided

a unique and exemplary opportunity for me to pursue both an
MS and PhD degree, while employed 1,000 miles from campus.
The paralleling of a rigorous academic graduate program with an
industrial research environment provided me with confidence and
a competitive edge when it came to innovation and new product
development. The format was portable, easy to use and provided
wonderful learning opportunities from renowned subject-matter
experts. I continually recommend the WEMPEC distance learning
experience to those who are committed to continuous learning
within their field and are ready to gain physical insightfulness!
Steven Fredette (MS 1996, PhD 2009)American Superconductor Corp.

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ME 447Computer Control of Machines

and Processes *
ECE 504Electric Machines and Drive
Systems Laboratory *
ECE 511Theory and Control of
Synchronous Machines *
ME 547Design of Computer Control
Systems *
ECE/ME 577Automatic Controls
Laboratory *
There are currently seven courses
regularly offered at the graduate level,
compared with two offered in 198182.
ECE 711Dynamics and Control of AC
Drives *
ECE 712Solid State Power Conversion *
ECE 713Electromagnetic Design of AC
Machines *
ECE 714Utility Applications of Power
Electronics *
ECE/ME 739Advanced Automation
and Robotics *
ME 746Dynamics of Controlled
Systems *
ME 747Advanced Computer Control of
Machines and Processes *
Laboratory teaching is greatly enhanced
by the Grainger Teaching Laboratory for
Electric Machines and Power Electronics.
The five test stands in this lab are designed
to make it as appealing as possible for
students to learn about machine and
power electronic system properties and
their control using modern drive equipment and instrumentation. This teaching
environment is regarded as one of the best
in the nation for electric machines, power
electronics, and their integrated control.
The laboratory is also used regularly to
provide off-campus CCD students with
an advanced laboratory experience by

WEMPEC distance-education students on campus.

alternately scheduling ECE 504 and ME/

ECE 577 during the three-week intersession at the beginning of every summer.

Distance Learning
Classroom
Distance education continues to be a
major priority of the WEMPEC faculty,
providing a valuable benefit to the
employees of WEMPEC sponsor organizations and engineers everywhere. The
UWMadison Credit Courses at a Distance
(CCD) program offers 18 of the 20 undergraduate and graduate courses listed
in the preceding section via recorded
lectures.

The ability to offer this broad range
of courses to off-campus students in
the areas of power electronics, electric
machines, control, and power systems
makes it possible for working engineers
to earn masters degrees at their home
locations with a minimum of on-campus
residency requirements. A few dedicated engineers continue on, using the
CCD course program as the basis for

earning their doctoral degrees with their

employers support. Many other engineers
without specific degree aspirations pick
and choose specific courses as a valuable
means of updating their professional skills
in specific technical areas.

Many of the engineers who choose
to use the distance education CCD
program to pursue advanced degrees
are engaged in research projects under
the supervision of one of the WEMPEC
faculty members. These research projects
are typically conducted using employer
laboratory facilities and often involve
research topics related to the engineers
primary area of job responsibility. As
demonstrated by a long track record of
successful CCD degree programs, these
research projects often lead to innovative technical contributions that mutually
benefit the student employee as well as
the employer.
WEMPEC courses offered via the CCD
program are updated regularly to ensure
that students are exposed to the most
recent developments in each of the key

areas of power technology. Engineers

are encouraged to take the courses
concurrently with their fellow students
in Madison, but opportunities are also
provided on occasion for students to
take the courses during semesters when
they are not being offered in Madison.
Students view recorded lectures at times
and locations that fit their schedules,
while completing course assignments
and tests on schedules comparable to
those of their on-campus counterparts.
Arrangements are made to ensure convenient access to the responsible WEMPEC
faculty member via telephone and e-mail
for all course-related questions.
All WEMPEC CCD courses are
also available for purchase or rental
by corporations or other professional
organizations for in-house training.
A significant discount is offered to
WEMPEC sponsor organizations for all
such purchases and rentals.
For complete program and course
information, visit the Office of Engineering
Credit Courses at a Distance (CCD)
website: epd.engr.wisc.edu/ccd.
You can also directly contact Ms.
Helene Demont, program manager, to
discuss any questions regarding program
and course options, at demont@engr.wisc.
edu or via telephone at 6082625516.

Short Courses
In addition to teaching full-length
academic courses to both on-campus
and distance learning students, WEMPEC
faculty members are actively engaged
each year in teaching technical short
courses to the broad community of
engineers working in industry and
government. Almost all of these short
courses are offered under the auspices
of the Department of Engineering

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Program

18

Professional Development (EPD) of the

University of WisconsinMadison.
The short courses are typically scheduled for three or four days and cover all
forms of power electronics and AC motor
drive technology. Since one of the major
goals of these courses is to give attendees
a broad introduction to technology
areas, the material presented in the short
courses is typically drawn and distilled
from several different courses taught by
the WEMPEC faculty. Several of the short
courses also include invited instructors
from industry and academia who bring
their special expertise and practical applications experience to enrich the short
course curriculum for attendees.
One of the keys to the long-term
success that these short courses have
enjoyed is a determination to keep the
presented material up-to-date and relevant to industry needs. For example, we
successfully launched a new short course
on AC permanent magnet machines
and drives in 2008 to help attendees
understand both the opportunities and
technical challenges posed by this important class of AC machines for a wide range
of applications. Through a wide range of
topics in this short course, extending from
machine design and analysis to position
sensor elimination techniques, attendees
leave the short course with a broad
and detailed introduction to the topic
that they take back with them to their
workplaces.
Find more information about the
short courses scheduled for the coming
months via links on the WEMPEC website
www.wempec.wisc.edu or direct questions to Mitch Bradt in EPD at bradt@wisc.
edu or 6082631085.

A key component of the
WEMPEC mission is research in the areas
of power electronics, electrical machines,
and all related topics. This research serves

In the Research Lab

Microgrid static switch.

multiple purposes. Significantly, WEMPEC

research seeks answers to important
questions, such as the technical viability
of new concepts and the comparative
advantages of alternative approaches,
providing results that can dramatically
shorten product development time for
WEMPECs industrial sponsors.
Developing these answers and
promptly communicating them to
our sponsors are major objectives of
WEMPECs research and technology
transfer program. In addition, WEMPEC
research provides the means of teaching
students how to conduct independent
research, building skills that will be critical
to their future success as employees
of our sponsors or the next generation
of academic faculty in this field. The
following paragraphs describe two major
classes of WEMPEC-based research.

WEMPEC Pre-Competitive
Research
Given the broad base of WEMPECs industrial support, often coming from corporate
competitors, the research program
carried out using WEMPEC membership funds is specifically structured to
be pre-competitive in nature. Individual
WEMPEC-funded research projects are
selected at the discretion of the WEMPEC
faculty. Although sponsors do not directly
determine the choice of specific projects,
faculty members make significant efforts
to communicate with WEMPEC sponsors in
order to identify shortcomings of current
technology and opportunities for new
research. Based on these inputs, WEMPEC
research is focused on emerging and
fundamental issues that will be of interest
to a broad cross-section of the sponsors.
Results of this research, often in the form

of technical papers, are shared simultaneously with all sponsors as soon as they are
available, typically several months before
they are presented at open conferences.

WisPERC Sponsored
Research
Since WEMPEC funds are used only for
conducting pre-competitive research,
WEMPEC members are encouraged to
sponsor focused research contracts that
pursue promising concepts in more detail
to meet their particular needs. As a result,
only those sponsors with a particular
interest in a particular technology area
support a more detailed investigation once
the viability of the basic concept has been
established using WEMPEC membership
funds. While WEMPEC does not get directly
involved in product design, the results of
these contracts often serve as the basis for
subsequent product development carried
out by the sponsor. Such focused research
projects are administered by the Wisconsin
Power Electronics Research Center
(WisPERC), an administrative center at the
university that handles all contract research
in power electronics and related areas.

WEMPECs International
Focus
WEMPECs international reputation for
excellence in both education and research
attracts the best students from the U.S.
and from around the world. The research
environment inside WEMPEC is further
enhanced by long-standing relationships
with many of the worlds most renowned
researchers in this field from a wide variety
of international institutions. Over its
30-year history, WEMPEC has hosted a large
number of visiting professors and scholars
from around the world, often for extended
periods of time (see detailed list in later
section). Furthermore, WEMPEC faculty and
students frequently reciprocate by visiting
the top international research centers in
the areas of power electronics and electric
machines. This continuous intellectual
exchange on a national and international
basis generates a steady and lively influx
of new ideas into WEMPEC that contributes substantially to the dynamism of the
WEMPEC research program.

The thing I remember most is

the camaraderie and fun I had
interacting with the professors,
students, and visiting scholars
while working on challenging
topics. The skills that you learn
enable you to be a successful
engineer and researcher.
However, knowledge is gained
not just by reading books but
also by interacting with people,
and WEMPEC has always
attracted the best researchers
from around the world. Even
after graduating, I eagerly look
forward to visiting Madison
to see the innovative work
being carried out and meet
with students and hear their
excitement and passion.
Shashank Krishnamurthy (PhD 2008)
United Technologies
Research Center

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Technology Transfer

WEMPEC Team Focus

One of the most important charters for

WEMPEC is the timely transfer of new
technology to its industrial sponsors. In
its most basic form, this is accomplished
through the distribution of advance
copies of 40 or more research reports
each year, including tutorial reports and
thesis summaries. However, technology
transfer means much more than sharing
research reports. For example, technology
transfer is greatly enhanced by the flow of
students to industry during internships as
well as the permanent hiring of WEMPEC
graduates. Whenever possible, employees
of our sponsors are encouraged to spend
extended periods of time in Madison
working directly with WEMPEC faculty
and students. In addition, faculty visits to
sponsors, an annual review meeting, and
sponsor visits to the WEMPEC laboratory
are also important elements in the technology transfer process.

Successful research in electric machines,

drives, and power electronics depends
heavily on a multidisciplinary approach
to problem solving. Collectively, WEMPEC
faculty, staff, and students possess
the broad spectrum of technical skills
necessary to achieve this success,
complemented by the world-class skills of
other faculty in the UWMadison College
of Engineering. WEMPEC faculty members
have long taken pride in their ability to
work together in teams to accomplish
research objectives that would be nearly
impossible to achieve alone. The broad
technology base, complementary technical skills, and effective teamwork found
within the WEMPEC community represent
key program strengths.

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Research Areas
WEMPEC research projects span a wide
range of time horizons. Some are of immediate relevance to industry, while others
have a much longer-term perspective,
providing the basis for future technology
and industrial growth. Brief descriptions of
the major WEMPEC research thrust areas
appear below.

Advanced Electric Machines

Electric machines have been experiencing
a major resurgence of interest in the
international research community during
recent years because of the critical role
they play in high-profile commercial products ranging from hybrid/electric vehicles
to wind turbines. The high-performance
electric machines required for these
demanding applications present major
technical challenges to machine designers.

Research on advanced electric
machines has continued at WEMPEC
continuously since its inception, including
times periods in past decades when
machine research was being terminated
at other major universities. Electric
machine research at WEMPEC has earned
an international reputation for its long
history of ground-breaking innovations
that span a wide spectrum of new topologies ranging, from axial-airgap machines
to double-airgap machines and linear
machines. Major themes that pervade
much of the machine research today
include the application of new materials
and new approaches for more tightly
integrating the electric machine with its
power converter, controls, and sensors.

PM Machine Design
WEMPEC is well known around the
world for its many contributions to
the development of new permanent
magnet (PM) machine designs and the
associated analytical techniques for their
optimization. For example, WEMPEC
faculty members have been pioneers
in the development of interior PM (IPM)
machines that are used in nearly all
hybrid/electric passenger vehicles now
in commercial production. Key innovations have included the development
of several alternative machine design
topologies for both IPM and surface PM
(SPM) machines to achieve a wide speed
range of constant-power operation that
is critical for traction applications. Major
technical progress has also been achieved
in other important areas, including the
reduction of losses in high-speed PM
machines to boost their power density
and efficiency and the development of
promising new PM machine topologies
tailored for high-torque, low-speed directdrive applications.

Matrix Converter Topologies

Ever since their introduction 20 years ago,
matrix power converters have held out
the promise of direct AC-to-AC power
conversion with minimal need for bulky
passive capacitor and inductor components. However, realization of this promise
has been impeded by several layers of
practical issues that have limited their
practical applications. Ever since its inception, and particularly during the past five
years, WEMPEC has steadily contributed
to the development of solutions to these
problems, including increased voltage
transfer utilization, improved commutation strategies, use of reduced switch
count, and dynamic modeling.

significant contributions to the topological development, control techniques,

modulation strategies, and design-oriented
modeling of these converters in applications ranging from low-cost, low-power
motor drives to utility-scale reactive power
compensators. Continuing work in these
activities include the bridge-of-bridge
power converters and dc-dc-dc converters
suitable for medium voltage and high
voltage systems.

Microgrids

Concentrated winding PM traction machine.

For instance, matrix converter topologies

have been demonstrated that reduce the
number of required power switches from
18 in conventional matrix converters to
12, nine, or even six switches. These new
converters show considerable promise for
reducing the cost of matrix power conversion equipment with only a minimal
loss of functionality. Coupled with these
advances, emerging developments in
multi-quadrant semiconductor devices
are increasing the opportunities for their
viable application in the near future.

Multilevel Converter
Topologies
The application of power electronic
converters at higher power levels reaching
into the range of several MW has become
possible in recent years as a result of major
advances in the development of various
classes of multilevel power converters.
WEMPEC faculty and students have made

Prevailing global trends for providing

electrical energy infrastructure in the
world today are favoring the growth
of smaller-scale distributed generation
systems in addition to more conventional
central power generation systems. This
trend has been accelerated by recent
technical developments in alternative
power generation such as wind and
solar systems, cogeneration systems,
and microturbines, as well as concerns
for economic, social, geographic, and
security issues. The microgrid concept
introduced and developed by WEMPEC
faculty is becoming a dominant paradigm
for configuring distributed generation
systems. Continuing work is leading
to several demonstration projects in
the field, in collaboration with various
vendors, setting the stage for their wider
adoption in the future, funded by various
agencies including the California Energy
Commission, U.S. Department of Defense,
U.S. Department of Energy, and utilities.

Utility Applications
Several investigations have focused
on power electronics applications in
high-power utility electrical systems.
Superconducting DC networks, dynamic
modeling, power quality improvement
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transmission systems (FACTS) and power

converters for custom power have
been some of the selected focus areas.
In addition to the modeling of more
conventional devices such as phasecontrolled converters, a new family of
power converter architectures based on
AC link technologies has been developed
in recent years as a potential and competitive alternative to conventional DC link
approaches for AC power flow control.

Wind Power
WEMPEC faculty have played a longstanding role in the development of
electric power train systems for wind
turbine systems ever since its inception.
Alternative machine configurations,
drive control systems, power converter
topologies, direct drive machines, utility

Wave energy generator.

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interface systems, generation and var

control issues have all been subject
of various investigations during these
decades. Presently WEMPEC faculty are
leading a graduate level curriculum
development program awarded by the
Department of Energy, under which five
different courses are being developed
in the area by several faculty across the
campus. Notable among these is a small
wind-turbine-design study course that
leads to student design, construction
and installation of a 500W wind turbine
among campus facilities.

Energy Storage and Transfer

Reflecting the growing needs for
advanced electrical energy storage that
is attributable to intermittent renewable
energy sources and electric vehicles,
WEMPEC research efforts addressing this
increasingly important technology need
have expanded in scope and magnitude.
For example, high-efficiency bidirectional
power converters have been developed for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) concept
demonstrations, making it possible for
plug-in hybrid/electric vehicles to deliver
battery energy back to the grid under
some operating conditions for grid
auxiliary services and power smoothing.
Advanced wireless power transfer techniques have also been demonstrated for
efficiently transmitting electric power
across >10 centimeters of air, offering
promising approaches for eliminating
the physical plugs from plug-in vehicles.

Several battery management issues
are also receiving increasing attention,
including the development of more
accurate state-of-charge (SOC) and
state-of-health (SOH) monitors, as well
as improved techniques for equalizing
the charge among long series strings of
batteries. Research on these topics and

Measuring strain in an electrically active

power semiconductor.

others is expected to grow during the

coming years with the multiple objectives of improving the performance,
cost-effectiveness, and reliability of new
generations of energy storage devices in
future energy systems.

Self-sensing Drive
Technology
WEMPEC has continued to be a leader
in methods to use the motor itself as
the motion sensor needed not only for
controlling torque but also for controlling motion. In the area of high-stiffness
self-sensing torque and motion control,
WEMPEC has developed and demonstrated methods that achieve high
stiffness for zero and very-low speed as
well as high speed operation, and helped

to establish the criteria for performance

of such methods. WEMPEC has also
made considerable progress in a critical
area for the future of self-sensingin
other words, practical methods to design
induction as well as surface and interior
PM synchronous machines, so that selfsensing performance can be achieved
even at high load conditions. Self-sensing
drives with these attributes have not
been widely reported and WEMPEC has
demonstrated leadership in this area.
WEMPEC research has investigated the
role of magnet properties in self-sensing
and engaged colleagues worldwide in a
long-term collaborative effort. This area
will continue to be critical in the future as
PM machines become more dominant. A
parallel focus on machines not requiring
PM materials has also been maintained so
that the critical foundation will exist for a
full set of self-sensing alternatives.

Estimation and Sensor

Integration in Power
Modules, Converters,
and Drives
WEMPEC has developed multi-physics
methods at several levels for integrating
appropriate sensors with state and
disturbance observers to add substantial
value to power modules, converters,
and drives. At the device and module
level, integration methods developed
in WEMPEC for current sensing have
demonstrated capabilities needed to
regulate power conversion. In addition,
WEMPEC has demonstrated how these
methods can be used to extract high
bandwidth junction temperature, which
is a critical technology to regulate the
failure producing thermal-mechanical
strain, as first proposed and demonstrated
by WEMPEC. Fundamental methods to
measure the key strain variables have

also been developed and demonstrated

by WEMPEC. These methods are critical
for active control of thermally induced
strain in power devices and modules,
which has the potential to directly control
lifetime of power devices and modules.
WEMPEC research will continue to
develop this methodology so that high
reliability power electronic systems can be
systematically achieved. At the drive level,
WEMPEC has developed integrated estimation (measurement) methods that can
greatly extend the value of electric drives
in aerospace, automotive, and industrial applications having continuously
varying speed. These methods have been
demonstrated by WEMPEC to extract
load-dependent diagnostic information
with great precision, without needing
additional high cost sensors. Making the
electric drive become the primary system
level sensor will continue to expand the
opportunities for drives.

Next-Generation Drive
Control Technologies
WEMPEC has continued to pioneer drive
control technologies. Flux observer and
current regulation technology developed
by WEMPEC in its first two decades have
proven to be effective solutions and
become well accepted for field oriented
induction machine (IM) drives and
maximum torque per ampere current
vector controlled IPM SPM synchronous
machine drives. Over the last decade,
WEMPEC research on direct torque
and flux control has developed new
technologies that have the potential to
become the next generation of drive
control methods. WEMPECs deadbeatdirect torque and flux control (DB-DTFC)
research has successfully addressed key
limitations of the classical technology
by using a single control law over all
operating conditions. These DB-DTFC
methods have been demonstrated on

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both IM and IPM SM drives and have

shown how dynamic minimization of
copper, iron, and device losses is compatible with its single control law topology.
The models for dynamic loss minimization
control and resulting machine design for
loss minimization are ongoing WEMPEC
research themes so that comprehensive
implementation of this control law can be
realized.

Wireless Power Conversion

Technologies
WEMPEC researchers have developed
two generations of wireless (contactless)
power transfer technologies. Two decades
ago, a coaxial transformer technology
was developed to demonstrate high
efficiency contactless power transfer over
short gaps (1 cm) at medium (10s of
kHz) frequencies. The current technology
developed by WEMPEC is for much larger
gaps (30 cm), but with comparably high
efficiencies of 95 percent. Because of the
large gap, low flux linkages are needed
for personal safety. These are obtained by
using resonant topologies at much higher
frequencies (310 MHz). At such high
frequencies, proximity effects dominate
the resultant ESR. WEMPECs development
of surface spiral winding technology
with deterministic transposition has
demonstrated the ability to achieve the
necessary low equivalent series resistance
(ESR) coils for high efficiency resonant
power transfer. Low ESR coil design technology and converter system integration
continue as WEMPEC research themes.

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WEMPEC Annual Meeting.

Collaborative Research
Center for Renewable Energy
Systems (CRES)
The development of renewable-energy
sources has made huge strides during
recent years, to the point that renewableenergy sources are providing up to 20
percent of the electricity in countries
such as Denmark. However, achieving
even higher renewable energy penetration levels exceeding 20 percent poses
major technical challenges because major
renewable energy sources including wind
and solar are intermittent, being dependent on local weather conditions and
time of day.

Overcoming the technical challenges
posed by the intermittency of renewableenergy sources will require a massive
R&D effort involving breakthroughs in
every aspect of the future electrical grid,
including the sources themselves, energy
storage, the electrical loads, and the grid
interconnection system. Since much of
the R&D effort today is focused on the

development of individual components,

such as batteries or wind turbines, there
is a critical need to address systems-level
issues that focus on the integration of the
sources, storage, and load components
into future renewable energy systems.
With this challenge in mind, UW
Madison is the founding partner in the
Center for Renewable Energy Systems
(CRES), a multi-campus engineering
research center founded in 2010 with
UWMilwaukee, Marquette University,
and the Milwaukee School of Engineering
(MSOE). CRES is dedicated to the integration of intermittent renewable-energy
sources, energy storage components, and
demand-side controlled loads into robust,
reliable electrical systems that will meet
future electrical energy needs.
The highly multidisciplinary nature
of the renewable-energy system integration challenges cover a wide range from
aerodynamics (wind turbines) to electrochemistry (batteries). CRES is designed to
tap into the world-class expertise available
at each of the four academic institutions

in order to encourage close technical

collaboration across both departmental
and institutional boundaries.
While WEMPEC is a consortium of
international sponsors (including many
commercial competitors) who use
WEMPEC to pool resources to pursue
long-term, pre-competitive R&D, CRES
provides an environment for conducting
sponsored research that is supported
by individual companies or groups of
companies. As a result, WEMPEC and
CRES are highly complementary, since a
promising pre-competitive concept that
emerges from WEMPEC can be pursued
further by an individual company in
CRES for promising commercial applications. Unlike WEMPEC, CRES provides an
environment for carrying out research
contracts that have deliverables and intellectual property ownership terms.
The ability to pursue research that
focuses on integrating renewable-energy
sources, energy storage, and controlled
loads benefits greatly from special laboratory facilities that are custom-designed
to accommodate these components and
their special interconnection requirements.
The new Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI)
Building, which will be located on the
northwestern corner of the UWMadison
College of Engineering campus, includes
laboratory facilities that are designed
specifically to meet CRES experimental
test requirements. More specifically, the
WEI Building, due for completion in 2012,
will include both a high-bay test facility
and an adjacent staging laboratory that
are being flexibly outfitted with a range
of utility services and electrical infrastructure designed to facilitate integrated
renewable energy systems testing. When
completed, the WEI Building will provide
world-class test facilities for conducting
CRES research incorporating a wide range
of equipment including combinations

of electrical machines, batteries, fuel

cells, diesel engines, photovoltaic arrays,
and controlled loads in microgrid
configurations.
WEMPEC is perfectly positioned to
be a major technology contributor to the
integrated renewable-energy systems
that are developed and eventually tested
in CRES laboratory facilities. There is every
reason for optimism that WEMPEC and
its sponsors will benefit greatly from
the establishment and growth of CRES,
leading to technology breakthroughs that
will rapidly advance the state-of-the-art of
renewable energy systems.

Power Systems Engineering

Research Center

are developing advanced tools and

state-of-the-art techniques to advance
the efficiency, flexibility and improved
environmental impact for electric energy
technology and policy, while using
these projects as a vehicle to train a new
generation of students to be technical
leaders in the field.

With the disassembly of vertically
integrated electrical utilities in many parts
of the world, the growing need to accommodate a wide range of new clean energy
generation, and the prospect of wide
spread deployment of electric vehicles,
the existing transmission system in North
America is being stressed in ways very
different from those in the past. The new
competitive environment has made the
reliability of the interconnected power
systems a matter of renewed importance.

To serve these needs, PSERC is developing advanced computer tools, control
algorithms, and operational methodologies that enable the best possible use of
existing infrastructure and contribute to
the flexibility of the grid to enable future
storage and electric vehicle technologies. Advances such as grid-scale power
electronics play a major role in PSERCs
research into advanced solutions for
enhanced power systems operations.

The Power System Engineering Research

Center (PSERC) was established as a
National Science Foundation Industry/
University Collaborative Research Center
(I/UCRC) in 1996, with the University of
WisconsinMadison among this centers
four founding institutions. NSF reaffirmed
its support in a new five-year award for
I/UCRC Phase III status in 2010, and today
PSERC has grown to 13 collaborating
universities, with more than 35 industrial
partners.

PSERCs mission is to conduct
research aimed at
improving the reliability, economy, and
environmental impact
of the electric power
grid. PSERC addresses
new challenges arising
in the market-driven
structure of todays
electricity industry, in
the grid integration of
renewable resources,
and in the advancement of the smart grid.
Undergraduate wind turbine construction course.
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In the Technical
Community
Service has been a strong tradition for
WEMPEC. It has had three major dimensions: educational service, professional
society service, and service to our industrial sponsors.
Educational service has strongly focused
on short courses and tutorials. These have
covered all forms of AC motor and drive
technology and power electronics design
technology. We have offered a set of
short courses annually, mostly under the
auspices of the UWMadison Department
of Engineering Professional Development.
We have offered tutorials through the
IEEE Industry Applications Society and
the IEEE Power Electronics Society and

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to individual sponsors with special

arrangements.
The educational service has also
had the dimension of distance learning
for graduate education. Don Novotny,
Bob Lorenz, Tom Jahns, and Giri
Venkataramanan all have had significant
outreach teaching roles and WEMPEC
faculty are actively involved in supporting
this distance-learning mechanism.
Over the last 30 years, more than 40
students have graduated with MS and
PhD degrees which they completed via
distance learning.
WEMPEC professional society service has
focused primarily on the IEEE Industry
Applications Society (IAS) and the IEEE
Power Electronics Society (PELS). Three
of the WEMPEC faculty have been IEEE
society presidents: Tom Lipo
and Bob Lorenz for IEEE
IAS and Tom Jahns for IEEE
PELS. In addition, Bob Lorenz
served during 200506 on
the IEEE Board of Directors
as the Division II Director, a
position that was also held
by Tom Jahns in 200102.
Division II consists of six IEEE
Societies including both
the Industry Applications
Society (IAS) and the Power
Electronics Society (PELS).
The WEMPEC faculty
have chaired conferences
and numerous technical
committees in IAS and PELS
and have had long-term
leadership commitments in
education and technology
areas. Tom Jahns served as
technical program co-chair
for the first IEEE Energy
Converison Congress and
Exposition (ECCE) in 2009,

which is jointly sponsored by PELS and

IAS and is a major conference for WEMPEC
technologies. Bob Lorenz has helped
guide the IAS-Co-Sponsored ICEMS
Steering committee for the last decade, as
it rotates its venue between China, Japan,
and Korea. Bob Lorenz continues to serve
on the IEE (UK) Executive Committee for
Power Conversion and is actively involved
in its professional network methodology.
He also continues to serve on the EPE
International Steering Committee and
organizes technical sessions for each of
its conferences, which are now financially
co-sponsored by PELS and technically
co-sponsored by IAS.
Service to our industrial sponsors has
taken several forms. One of the most
common is for sponsors to identify
specific areas of interest within the
scope of WEMPEC, allowing faculty to
provide input during targeted visits to the
campus. Strategic technical discussions
and technical planning have served our
industrial sponsors well, especially if they
have been proactive in seeking such help.
Another service to industry is the
flow of students to industry during
summer internships and via permanent hiring. This serves the dual role of
technology transfer and human-resource
development.
The connection to industry is
facilitated through the weekly WEMPEC
seminars, which are predominantly given
by industrial sponsors. This provides an
opportunity for students and faculty to
learn about the sponsors technical interests and for sponsors to meet and interact
with students, who often go to work for
sponsor firms.

Facilities

WEMPEC Electric Machines

and Power Electronics
Research Lab
The WEMPEC research lab is equipped
for 50 to 60 graduate students to work
on machines, motor drives, power
electronics circuits, microgrids, battery
systems, electric traction systems, and
machine and power electronics packaging
research. For machines and motor drives,
there are 11 machine bases and a range
of dynamometers up to 75 hp, including
numerous units designed for high-speed
testing. For high-voltage power converters,
there are two protected cages suitable for
medium-voltage operation. Battery test
systems include custom-made impedance spectroscopy facilities, high-current
programmable cycling systems and
in-vehicle load profile monitoring systems.
The laboratory-scale microgrid
consists of a 120/208V 60Hz 4-wire
network that uses a synchronized static
switch for its single utility interface.
Inverter-based sources are used to
emulate different types of DC-based
sources including photovoltaic arrays and
fuel cells. An additional inverter-based
source uses batteries to investigate the
impact of energy storage in microgrids,
and a 12kW diesel genset is also available.
Reconfigurable loads and a variety of data
acquisition instrumentation contribute to
making this a highly versatile platform for
microgrid research
A variety of commercial and
specially constructed power converters
and DSP-based controllers are available
for general drives and power converter
research activities. Printed circuit board
assembly/disassembly equipment includes
a pick-and-place machine, a solder reflow
oven, inspection microscope, and a variety
of current technology soldering and
de-soldering equipment.

Top: Using the finite element microscope to

teach machines and drives.
Above: Using aerospace electromechanical
actuators for diagnostics.
Left: Integrated battery testing system.

A large range of test and measurement instruments needed for power

electronics and machines research are
available in the lab, including thirty
LeCroy and Agilent digital oscilloscopes,
sixty differential voltage probes, and a
correspondingly high number of current
probes. A 36 cubic feet Envirotronics
environmental chamber allows testing
of electronic equipment from 73oC
to +177oC. Complementing the heat
chamber is a Flir real-time infrared temperature measurement camera system.
The power distribution system,
workstations, switchgear, test equipment,

and wiring infrastructure of the laboratory

are configured with a lab-wide busway
allowing clutterless electrical interconnection between workstations. Workbench
facilities include more than 30 maplesurface movable workstations; flexible
instrument shelving for each workstation;
and flexible wiring channels surrounding
each workstation. Nineteen-inch racks are
used for converter and controller build-up
in an organized manner. Power available
in the lab includes: 480V three-phase AC,
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2011 Current Graduate Students

PhD students
Korwin Anderson
Seth Avery
Robert Cuzner
Vishram Deshpande
Micah Erickson
Larry Juang
Phillip Kollmeyer
Jae Suk Lee
Jonathan Lee
Seung-Hwan Lee
Natee Limsuwan
Dan Ludois
James McFarland
Patricio Mendoza-Araya

Di Pan
Justin Reed
Andrew Rockhill
Patrick Schneider
Kee Ho Shin
Jagadeesh Tangudu
Jennifer Vining
Yang Wang
Christopher Wolf
Wei Xu
Shih-Chin Yang
Chen-Yen Yu

MS students
Alden Alviar
Brian Bradley
James Brandt
Joshua Brittingham
Gilsu Choi
Randy Decoster
Paul Erdtmann
Christopher Farr
Shun Feng
Kevin Frankforter
Aditya Ghule
Nicholas Grey
Kyle Hanson
Jonathan Hoffman

David Holmburg
Zachary Hurst
Wenying Jiang
Ryan Jwanouskos
Mohsen Karbassian
Kanishka Kumar
Jin Li
Richard Lukaszewski
Seth McElhinney
Pedro Melendez-Vega
Patrick Ozimek
Dhaval Patel
Christophe Rousset
Adam Shea
Jerhod Smithback
Andrew Specht

Chih-Ming Wang
Mark Weaver
Wanjun Zhang
Yichao Zhang
Huimin Zhou

Undergraduate
students
Matthew Beyer
Bryan Dow
Brent Gagas
Mark Kringle
Allison Mahvi
Paul Schmidt

Grainger Power Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships

In 1997, The Grainger Foundation established a major award program for students who earn an undergraduate or graduate
degree with a specialization in the field of electric power engineering in the University of WisconsinMadison College of
Engineering. These awards are intended to reward highly qualified and motivated students who pursue programs of study in
electric machines and drive systems, industrial motion control, power electronics, or electric power systems. More than 200
awards have been granted since 1997, and the majority of the MS and PhD recipients have been students in the WEMPEC
program. Visit www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/grainger/ for more details.

Nick Berard, http://www.nickberard.com

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1981 MS
Hamdy M. Bahnassy* N. Schmitz

1981 PhD

Mehrdad Ehsani* N. Schmitz

Nathaniel Gunaratnam* D.W. Novotny
(* already in ECE program; became
WEMPEC students in 81)

1982 MS

Timothy J. Kolb D.W. Novotny

Timothy M. Rowan T.A. Lipo

1982 PhD

K. Ahmed T.A. Lipo

1983 MS

David M. Brod D.W. Novotny

Roy Steve Colby D.W. Novotny
Isidoro Couvertier D.W. Novotny
Takayoshi Matsuo T.A. Lipo
Donald S. Zinger T.A. Lipo

1984 MS
Wallace H. Creer T.A. Lipo
William J. Hunt D.W. Novotny
Benson Lee R.H. Lasseter
Eduard Muljadi T.A. Lipo
Kamarudin Nordin D.W. Novotny

1985 MS

Leonard J. Bohmann R.H. Lasseter

Kwon C. Chang T.A. Lipo
Jin Heung Chung R.H. Lasseter
John P. Hoffman D.W. Novotny
Joseph D. Law T.A. Lipo
John M. Loehrke R.D. Lorenz

1985 PhD

Daniel S. Kirschen D.W. Novotny

Timothy M. Rowan T.A. Lipo
Chu-Gen Wang T.A. Lipo

1986 MS

Grant K. Garnett R.D. Lorenz

David A. Kaiser T.A. Lipo
Jim D. Kershner R.D. Lorenz
Terrance M. Lettenmaier D.W. Novotny

David Grainger with College of Engineering Deans Paul Peercy and Gerald Kulcinski.

Dennis K. Schade R.D. Lorenz

Longya Xu T.A. Lipo

1986 PhD

H. Soebagio T.A. Lipo

Kwa-Sur Tam R.H. Lasseter

1987 MS

Mark R. Bachhuber R.D. Lorenz

Ivan R. Brouwer R.D. Lorenz
Robert A. Cook R.D. Lorenz
Mike B. Eberlein R.D. Lorenz
Patrick L. Jansen D.W. Novotny
A. Reza Kashani R.D. Lorenz
Mustansir Kheraluwala D.M Divan.
Mark S. Kramer T.A. Lipo
K. Mathias Meyer R.D. Lorenz
Oliver D. Patterson D.M. Divan
Doug Van De Riet R.D. Lorenz

1987 PhD

Roy Steve Colby D.W. Novotny

Eduard Muljadi T.A. Lipo
Joseph O. Ojo T.A. Lipo
Richard F. Schiferl T.A. Lipo
Pradeep K. Sood T.A. Lipo
Li-Cheng Zai T.A. Lipo

1988 MS

Kai Chi Lam T.A. Lipo

Eric G. Mundt R.D. Lorenz
S. Y. Tam R.H. Lasseter
Oliver Wilke R.D. Lorenz

1988 PhD

Yen-Ren Liu R.H. Lasseter

Donald S. Zinger T.A. Lipo

1989 MS

Beena S. Acharya D.M. Divan

William B. Dittman T.A. Lipo
Greg T. Jackson R.D. Lorenz
Brian K. Johnson R.H. Lasseter
Vikram Kaura D.W. Novotny
Patrick Michael Kelecy R.D. Lorenz
Lowell M. Rausch D.M. Divan
Shien-Yang Wu D.M. Divan

1989 PhD

Leonard J. Bohmann R.H. Lasseter

Sheng-Ming Yang R.D. Lorenz

1990 MS

Robert M. Cuzner R.D. Lorenz

Kam Tim Hung R.D. Lorenz
Christopher C. Jensen T.A. Lipo

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1991 PhD

Mustansir Kheraluwala D.M. Divan

Joseph D. Law T.A. Lipo
Peter B. Schmidt R.D. Lorenz
Hamid A. Toliyat T.A. Lipo

1992 MS

Mark Cooper R.D. Lorenz

Craig Johnson R.D. Lorenz
Mark S. Rauls D.W. Novotny
Scott W. Repplinger T.A. Lipo

Tracy L. Reineking R.D. Lorenz

Andrew J. Shakal T.A. Lipo
David T. Willett R.D. Lorenz

1994 PhD

Irfan Alan T.A. Lipo

Chingchi Chen D.M. Divan
Patrick Michael Kelecy R.D. Lorenz
Takayoshi Matsuo T.A. Lipo

1992 PhD

Ping Ping Dai R.D. Lorenz

Brian K. Johnson R.H. Lasseter
Yuefeng Liao T.A. Lipo
Gary L. Skibinski D.M. Divan
Giri Venkataramanan D.M. Divan
Ian Brown, PhD, 2009.

Karl W. Marschke T.A. Lipo

John Nesbitt D.W. Novotny
Patrick H. Nugent R.D. Lorenz
Deborah R. Wolfson R.D. Lorenz
Jiarong Zhou R.H. Lasseter

1990 PhD

Paulo R. Caldeira T.A. Lipo

Thomas G. Habetler D.M. Divan
Julio C. Moreira T.A. Lipo
Longya Xu T.A. Lipo
Xingyi Xu D.W. Novotny

1991 MS

Craig Bonneville R.D. Lorenz

Michael R. Buhl R.D. Lorenz
Craig M. Goshaw R.D. Lorenz
Ahmet Hava T.A. Lipo
Sasan Jalali R.H. Lasseter
Ka Shu Ko R.H. Lasseter
Douglas K. Maly D.W. Novotny
Moncef Moatemri R.D. Lorenz
Norbert Niedhorn R.D. Lorenz
Shawn L. Peterson R.D. Lorenz
Mina M. Rahimian T.A. Lipo
Bhaskar Singh T.A. Lipo
James L. Skinner T.A. Lipo
Bernhard Werner R.D. Lorenz
Herman L. N. Wiegman D.M. Divan

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1993 MS

Jeffrey Brozek T.A. Lipo

Jonathan Carpenter R.H. Lasseter
Shaotang Chen T.A. Lipo
Hassan Cherradi D.M. Divan
Matthew J. Corley R.D. Lorenz
Michael W. Degner R.D. Lorenz
Alexander Kurnia D.M. Divan
J. Daniel Ruvalcaba D.W. Novotny
Joel B. Wacknov T.A. Lipo
Ian Wallace D.M. Divan

1993 PhD

Jonathan C. Boomgaarden R.D.

Lorenz
Jen-Ren Fu T.A. Lipo
Herbert Hess D.M. Divan
Sasan Jalali R.H. Lasseter
Patrick L. Jansen R.D. Lorenz
Feng Liang T.A. Lipo

1994 MS

Robb G. Anderson R.D. Lorenz

Diane E. Borgard R.D. Lorenz
Po-Tai Cheng D.M. Divan
William D. Grube R.D. Lorenz
Bradley J. Heeres D.W. Novotny
Stephen Hsien-Yuan Li T.A. Lipo
Carl E. Martensson R.H. Lasseter
Andrew J. Meyer R.D. Lorenz
Mohamed O.E. Mohamed T.A. Lipo
Steven A. Orth R.D. Lorenz
Kevin T. Ousdigian R.D. Lorenz

I really think WEMPEC is like a

family of world-class experts in
power engineering research.
Mahesh S. Illindala (PhD 2005)
Caterpillar Inc.

1995 MS

Saviz Artang R.H. Lasseter

Marc Artmeyer R.D. Lorenz
Carl H. Benker D.M. Divan
William E. Brumsickle D.M. Divan
Gus Collins R.D. Lorenz
Douglas A. Dallmann K. Shenai
Lance P. Haines R.D. Lorenz
Hagen Jahn R.D. Lorenz
Michael C. Klabunde T.A. Lipo
David P. Leary R.H. Lasseter
Hsin-Hua Li T.A. Lipo
Alfredo Munoz-Garcia D.W. Novotny
Nicholas J. Nagel R.D. Lorenz
Gregory J. Rajala R.D. Lorenz
Yihchih Shern R.H. Lasseter
Chiping Sun D.W. Novotny
Steven H. Walker R.D. Lorenz
Yanhong Xue T.A. Lipo

1995 PhD

Mehmet Aydemir T.A. Lipo

Mukul Chandorkar D.M. Divan
Shaotang Chen T.A. Lipo
Keith Klontz D.W. Novotny
Nasser H. Kutkut D.M. Divan
Yifan Zhao T.A. Lipo

1996 MS

Mitchell Bradt R.H. Lasseter

Steven Fredette D.M. Divan
Vivek Karandikar R.D. Lorenz
Weihua Ma D.W. Novotny
Scott M. Manson R.H. Lasseter
Sameer P. Pendharkar K. Shenai
Dinyu (Dan) Qin T.A. Lipo
Tod R. Tesch R.D. Lorenz
Malay Trivedi K. Shenai

1996 PhD

LongJang Li R.D. Lorenz

Yue Li T.A. Lipo
David R. Seidl R.D. Lorenz

1997 MS

Metin Aydin T.A. Lipo

Alex M. De Broe T.A. Lipo
Carl Dister R.D. Lorenz
Darin A. Engelhart R.D. Lorenz
Chih Ling Han R.D. Lorenz
David Hyypio T.A. Lipo
Ekrem Kayikci R.D. Lorenz
Ahmed Mahmoud R.D. Lorenz
Kevin L. Payette R.D. Lorenz
Jerry A. Putman R.D. Lorenz
James E. Walters R.D. Lorenz
Craig R. Winterhalter R.D. Lorenz

Kurt I. Jaeger R.D. Lorenz

Frederick Kieferndorf D.W. Novotny
Chad M. Licht R.D. Lorenz
Wei Liu R.D. Lorenz
Frank Phlippen R.D. Lorenz
Aakash Rao T.A. Lipo
Jeffrey J. Shutter R.D. Lorenz
Pinet Sriyotha R.D. Lorenz
John W. Taylor R.D. Lorenz
Neil H. Tice R.D. Lorenz

1998 PhD

William E. Brumsickle D.M. Divan

Braz de Jesus Cardoso Filho T.A. Lipo
Michael W. Degner R.D. Lorenz
Ahmet Hava T.A. Lipo
Gautam Sinha T.A. Lipo
Ana V. Stankovic T.A. Lipo

1999 MS

Eric L. Benedict T.A. Lipo

Mark G. Dollevoet R.D. Lorenz
Michael C. Harke R.D. Lorenz
Jun Kikuchi T.A. Lipo
Hyunbae Kim R.D. Lorenz
Sigurd Ovrebo R.D. Lorenz
Oliver Peterson T.A. Lipo
Mark C. Sevey R.D. Lorenz

Michael Shannon T.A. Lipo

Weizhong Tang R.H. Lasseter

1999 PhD

Po-Tai Cheng D.M. Divan

Roy I. Davis R.D. Lorenz
Vinod John T.A. Lipo
Jian Luo T.A. Lipo
Madhav D. Manjrekar T.A. Lipo
Alfredo Munoz-Garcia T.A. Lipo
Nicholas J. Nagel R.D. Lorenz
Bulent Sarlioglu T.A. Lipo
Herman L. N. Wiegman R.D. Lorenz

2000 MS

Eric A. Carter R.D. Lorenz

Jennifer Chung R.D. Lorenz
Mark A. Ferderer R.D. Lorenz
Stephen Fusi T.A. Lipo
Enrique Ledezma T.A. Lipo
Jongsoo Lim R.D. Lorenz
Jaehyung Park T.A. Lipo
John H. Sorebo R.D. Lorenz
Clarissa M. Thomas R.D. Lorenz

2000 PhD

Melik Dolen R.D. Lorenz

Dinyu (Dan) Qin T.A. Lipo

1997 PhD

Mustafa A. Al-Saffar T.A. Lipo

Clark Hochgraf R.H. Lasseter
Alexander Julian T.A. Lipo
Hsin-Hua Li T.A. Lipo (co-advisor)
Xiaogang Luo T.A. Lipo
Mohamed O.E. Mohamed T.A. Lipo
Michael J. Ryan R.D. Lorenz

1998 MS

Robert B. Bettendorf R.D. Lorenz

Dennis Borowy T.A. Lipo
Marcela Gonzalez R.D. Lorenz
Laureen Hellouin R.D. Lorenz

WEMPEC party with visiting scholars, students, and faculty.

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Family

Trine Pande-Rolfsen R.D. Lorenz

Charles Romenesko R.D. Lorenz
Daniel M. Saban R.D. Lorenz
Vijay Srinivasan G. Venkataramanan
Jackson Wai T.M. Jahns
Yue Xu R.D. Lorenz
Hao Howard Zhang T.A. Lipo

2003 PhD

Ashish Bendre G. Venkataramanan

Subhashish Bhattacharya
G.Venkataramanan
Rick Kieferndorf T.A. Lipo
Lixiang Wei T.A. Lipo
Brian Welchko T.A. Lipo

2004 MS
A relaxing summer evening in Madison with WEMPEC international visitors.

2001 MS

Nathan Harris T.M. Jahns

Ji Li G. Venkataramanan
David Oteman T.A. Lipo
Allen Windhorn R.H. Lasseter

2001 PhD

Barbara H. Kenny R.D. Lorenz

Taiyou Yong R.H. Lasseter

2002 MS

Gary Buckingham R.H. Lasseter

Ho Chan T.M. Jahns
Ayman El-Refaie T.M. Jahns
Christoph Giebeler R.D. Lorenz
Christopher Houle R.H. Lasseter
Nathan Lebens G. Venkataramanan
Dustin A. Murdock R.D. Lorenz
Jody J. Nelson G. Venkataramanan
Shihong Park T.M. Jahns
Daniel M. Saban G. Venkataramanan
Eric L. Schlevensky R.D. Lorenz

2002 PhD

Jun Kikuchi T.A. Lipo

Renato Lyra T.A. Lipo
Alessandro Moreira T.A. Lipo
Velimir Nedic T.A. Lipo
Ronghai Qu T.A. Lipo
Juan Tapia T.A. Lipo

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Weekly WEMPEC seminar

stands out from the numerous
things I miss from Madison.
Every Friday, I was able to meet
experts from industry sponsors
around the world and was
able to learn what technical
challenges they face and how
the industry endeavors to
surmount those.
Kum-Kang Huh (PhD 2008)
GE Global Research Center

2003 MS

Theodore P. Bohn R.D. Lorenz

Ian P. Brown R.D. Lorenz
Michael F. Cash R.D. Lorenz
Patrick Flannery G. Venkataramanan
Yusuke Fukuta G. Venkataramanan
Christian Hareide R.D. Lorenz
Jason J. Hartwig R.D. Lorenz
Jesse Krase T.A. Lipo
Won-Kyoung Lee T.M. Jahns
Erik R. Olson R.D. Lorenz
Wen Ouyang T.A. Lipo

Travis Bashaw T.A. Lipo

James A. Buerosse R.D. Lorenz
Jeffrey J. Connors R.D. Lorenz
Chirdpong Deelertpaiboon
R.H. Lasseter
David K. Farnia R.D. Lorenz
Raahul Hassan R.H. Lasseter
Dong Gee Hong R.D. Lorenz
Jae-Hyuck Kim T.M. Jahns
Paul Mezs T.M. Jahns
Jonathan Nord G. Venkataramanan
Erick L. Oberstar R.D. Lorenz
Nitin R. Patel R.D. Lorenz
Devang Sachdev G. Venkataramanan
Mark A. Spickard R.D. Lorenz
Hong-Yue (Ray) Tang R.D. Lorenz

2004 PhD

Metin Aydin T.A. Lipo

Eric L. Benedict T.A. Lipo
Sib Chakrabarti T.M. Jahns
Hyunbae Kim R.D. Lorenz
Shihong Park T.M. Jahns
Yong-Sug Suh T.A. Lipo
Damir Zarko T.A. Lipo

2005 MS

Shreesha Adiga Manoor R.D. Lorenz

Sandeep Bala G. Venkataramanan
Felix B. Bierbaum R.D. Lorenz
James W. Claerbout R.D. Lorenz
Neal D. Clements G. Venkataramanan
Christopher J. Courtney R.D. Lorenz
Kleber Facchini T.A. Lipo
Derek R. Hochstetler R.D. Lorenz

Nicolai Mortensen G. Venkataramanan

Anusheel Nahar R.D. Lorenz
Jeffrey Nasadoski T.M. Jahns
Mark Putnam G. Venkataramanan
Bin Shi G. Venkataramanan
Fatou Thiam A. Muetze
Ricky J. White T.M. Jahns

2005 PhD

Ayman EL-Refaie T.M. Jahns

Mahesh Illindala G. Venkataramanan
Hongrae Kim T.M. Jahns
Paolo Piagi R.H. Lasseter
Tod R. Tesch R.D. Lorenz

2006 MS

Jei-Hoon BaekT.M. Jahns

Daniel BocciT.M. Jahns
Vishram DeshpandeG.
Venkataramanan
Christoffer FoxG. Venkataramanan
Joshua KagerbauerT.M. Jahns
Nicholas LembergT.A. Lipo
Daniel R. LuedtkeR.D. Lorenz
Andrew A. RockhillT.A. Lipo
Ying Chin TanA. Muetze
Kevin J. Van KammenR.D. Lorenz
Nathan T. WestR.D. Lorenz

2006 PhD

Bill WaltersG. Venkataramanan

Sainan XueR.D. Lorenz
Sean C. ZeithR.D. Lorenz

2007 PhD

Fernando Manicilla-David
G. Venkataramanan
Wen OuyangT.A. Lipo

2008 MS

Seok-Hee HanT.M. Jahns

Bjorn HeinbokelR.D. Lorenz
Robert W. HejnyR.D. Lorenz
Daniel C. LudoisG. Venkataramanan
Mark Michiels G. Venkataramanan
Dan Nowak G. Venkataramanan
Ryan D. NowakR.D. Lorenz
Ben SykoraT.M. Jahns
Travis M. ThulR.D. Lorenz
Christopher M. WolfR.D. Lorenz

2008 PhD

Sandeep BalaG. Venkataramanan

Patrick FlanneryG. Venkataramanan
Kum-Kang HuhR.D. Lorenz
Ekrem KayikciR.D. Lorenz
Shashank KrishnamurthyT.M. Jahns
Kevin LeeT.M. Jahns/T.A. Lipo
Marsha L. WaltersR.D. Lorenz

Jonathan BirdT.A. Lipo

Michael C. HarkeR.D. Lorenz
Erik R. OlsonR.D. Lorenz
Daniel M. SabanT.A. Lipo
Bingsen WangG. Venkataramanan

2009 MS

Seth M. AveryR.D. Lorenz

J. Matthew BurtonR.D. Lorenz
Micah EricksonT.M. Jahns
Shiv GuptaG. Venkataramanan
William R. Kranz G. Venkataramanan
Jae Suk LeeR.D. Lorenz
Natee LimsuwanR.D. Lorenz
Matt SuprenantG. Venkataramanan
Jagadeesh TanguduT.M. Jahns
Nidhishri TapadiaR.D. Lorenz
Corey WagnerG. Venkataramanan
Benjamin G. WillisR.D. Lorenz

2009 PhD

Ian P. BrownR.D. Lorenz

Steve J. FredetteG. Venkataramanan
Dejan RacaR.D. Lorenz
Darren D. TremellingT.A. Lipo

2010 MS

Adam E. AndersR.D. Lorenz

Wenying JiangT.M. Jahns
Larry W. JuangT.M. Jahns/R.D. Lorenz
Megan MalletteG. Venkataramanan
Timothy R. ObermannR.D. Lorenz

2010 PhD

Neal D. ClementsG. Venkataramanan

Seok-Hee HanT.M. Jahns
Patel B. Reddy T.M. Jahns

2007 MS

Korwin J. AndersonR.D. Lorenz

Nathaniel BrownT.M. Jahns
Bee-See HengA. Muetze
Steven HoskinsG. Venkataramanan
Scott E. McPherrenR.D. Lorenz
Justin K. ReedG. Venkataramanan
Patrick E. SchneiderR.D. Lorenz
Robert S. SchneiderR.D. Lorenz
Kee Ho ShinT.A. Lipo
Matthew L. SpencerR.D. Lorenz
Daniel SpringmannT.M. Jahns
Jo Sroda G. Venkataramanan
Darren TremellingT.A. Lipo
Donald TruettnerG. Venkataramanan
Jennifer ViningA. Muetze

Halloween WEMPEC-style.

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History
Family

Visiting Professors
Kazimierz Adamiak Kielce University
of Technology, Kielce, Poland (198889)
Khaled E. Addoweesh University of
King Saud, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (199394)
Jin-Woo Ahn Kyungsung University,
Pusan, Korea (199899)
Hirofumi Akagi Okayama University,
Okayama, Japan (199596)
Kan Akatsu Tokyo University of
Agriculture and Technology, Japan
(200508)
Mats Alakula Lund Institute of
Technology, Lund, Sweden (2000)
Mehmet Aydemir Gazi University,
Ankara, Turkey (200102)
Michael Barnes University of
Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
(200607)
Alberto Bellini Universita di Parma,
Parma, Italy (2000)
Francesco Benzi University of Pavia,
Pavia, Italy (198586)
Fabio Capponi La Sapienza, Rome,
Italy (200304)
Ming Cheng Southeast University,
Nanjing, China (2011)

WEMPEC Symposium.

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B.H. Cho Korean Advanced Institute

of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul,
Korea (198990)
Nam-Sup Choi Yosu National
University, Cheonnam, Korea (19992000)
Alfio Consoli University of Catania,
Catania, Italy (198586)
Seshagiri Roa Doradla India Institute
of Technology, Kanpur, India (199495)
Guillermo Garcia National University
of Rio Cuarto, Argentina (199698)
Dieter Gerling University of Federal
Defense, Munich, Germany (2004)
D. Grahame Holmes Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia (198889,
199495, 200507)
Sun-Ki Hong Hoseo University,
Chung-Nam, Korea (19992000, 200809)
Surong Huang Shanghai University of
Technology, Shanghai, P.R. China (199496,
19982000, 2001)
Kenichi Iimori Kagoshima University,
Kagoshima, Japan (199798)
Borislav Jeftenic University of
Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1990)
Min-Seok Joo Yonsei University, Seoul,
Korea (200002)

Man-Woun Kang Taejon National

University of Technology, Taejon, Korea
(199798)
Faeka Khater Cairo University, Cairo,
Egypt (1993)
Gi-Taek Kim Kangwon National
University, Chunchon, Korea (199496)
Gyu-Sik Kim University of Seoul, Korea
(200305)
Heung-Guen Kim Kyung-pook
National University, Taegu, Korea (199091)
Liviu Kreindler University of Bucharest,
Bucharest, Romania (199192)
Akira Kumamoto University in Osaka,
Japan (March 198788)
Viacheslav Kuznetsov Moscow Power
Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia
(199394)
Byung-il Kwon Hanyang University,
Korea (200102, 200809)
Joseph Law University of Idaho,
Moscow, Idaho (198384)
Gerard Ledwich University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (199192)
Cheol-Gyun Lee Dong-Eui University,
Pusan, Korea (200203)
Dong Choon Lee Yeungnam
University, Korea (200405)
Ju Lee Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
(200507)
Peng Li North China Electric Power
University, Baoding, China (200708)
Fan Liao Dalian Railway School of
Technology, Dalian, Peoples Republic of
China (198788)
Shir-Kuan Lin National Chiao Tung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (199596)
Robin Lisner Monash University,
Australia (2004)
Tian-Hua Liu National Institute of
Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China
(199092)
Seyed Madani University of Puerto
Rico, Pureto Rico (2004, 2005)
Udaya Madawala University of
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (2008)
Sergio Martinez University of Madrid,
Spain (201011)

Corbin Sparrow EV battery management testbed.

Jan A. Melkebeek Free University of

Gent, Belgium (1982)
Wellington Santos Mota Federal
University of Paraiba, Brazil (199598)
Alfredo Munoz-Garcia Politecnical
Naval Academy, Chilean Navy, Chile (2005)
Yoshihiro Murai Gifu University, Gifu,
Japan (198788, 1991, 199495)
Takashi Nagano Miyakonojo National
College of Technology, Miyakonojo, Japan
(200506)
Istvan Nagy Technical University of
Budapest, Budapest, Hungary (199192)
Sreeramulu Naidu Federal University
of Paraiba, Campina Grande, Brazil
(200001)
Syed A. Nasar University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky (1984, 1989)
Eui-Cheol Nho National Susan
University of Pusan, Pusan, Korea (199698)
Robert Nilssen Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Norway
(200405)
Shoji Nishikata Tokyo Denki University,
Tokyo, Japan (198788)
Haruhiko Nishiyama Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
(199495)
Kokichi Ogawa Oita University, Oita,
Japan (199293)

Gustaf Olsson Lund Technical

University, Lund, Sweden (199395)
Antonio Ometto LAquila University,
LAquila, Italy (199293)
Vlado Ostovic University of Osijek,
Osijek, Yugoslavia (198586, 1987)
Jun Oyama Nagasaki University,
Nagasaki, Japan (198788)
Antonio Feltrin Padilha FEIS-UNESP,
Ilha Soteira, Brazil (199597)
Seung Kyu Park Changwon National
University, Korea (200304)
Astrid Petterteig University of
Trondheim, Netherlands (1992)
Francesco Profumo University of
Torino, Torino, Italy (198688)
Supachai Puengsungwan King
Mongkuts University of Technology,
Thonbury, Thailand (200304)
Peter RasmussenAalborg University,
Aalborg, Denmark (2008)
Luiz Antonio de Souza Ribeiro
Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica
do Maranhao, Brazil (200406)
Sandeep RoyWashington State
University, Pullman, WA, USA (200809)
Leonid Rybitsky Riga Polytechnic
Institute, Riga, Latvia (198687)
Chandur T. Sadarangani Royal
Institute of Science Technology, KTH,
Stockholm, Sweden (200304)

Jul-Ki Seok Yeungnam University,

DaeDong, Korea (200809)
William Shepherd University of
Bradford, England (1985)
Shoji Shimomura Shibaura Institute of
Technology, Tokyo, Japan (200708)
Hwi-Beom Shin Gyeongsang National
University, Gyeongnam, Korea (200002)
Katsuji Shinohara Kagoshima
University, Kagoshima, Japan (1987)
Edison da Silva Federal University of
Paraiba, Brazil (199091, 199496)
Kwang M. Son Dong-Eui University,
Korea (200102)
Seung-Ho Song Chonbuk National
University, Korea (200405)
Wen L. Soong University of Adelaide,
Adelaide, Australia (200607)
Gorazd Stumberger University of
Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia (2001)
Seung-Ki Sul Seoul National University,
Seoul, Korea (199596)
Yong-Tae Sul Hoseo University,
Chungnam, Korea (199496)
Dan Sun Zhejian University, Hangzhou,
China (200911)
Lizhi Sun Harbin Institute of
Technology, Harbin, P.R. China (2007)
Isao Takahashi Technological
University of Nagaoka, Japan (198182)
Nikolai P. Trusov The Urals State
Technical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
(199596)
Anibal Valenzuela University of
Concepcin, Concepcin, Chile (199899)
Aimeng Wang North China Electric
Power University, Beijing, China (2006.
200708, 2009)
Bulai Wang Shanghai Maritime
University, Shanghai, China (200708)
Cai Wei Harbin Institute of Electrical
Technology, Harbin, P.R. China (199496)
Peter Wolfs University of Central
Queensland, Queensland, Australia (1993)
Xiangwu Yan North China Electric
Power University, Baoding, China (200809)
Firuz Zare Mazandaran University,
Australia (200506)

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Family

Wen Zhang Shandong University,

Jinan, China (200809)
Xinghua Zhang Nanjing University of
Technology, Nanjing, China (200809)
Ping Zheng Harbin Institute of
Technology, Harbin, China (200708)
Erkuan Zhong Hainan University,
Hainan, Peoples Republic of China
(199192)
Jian Guo Zhu University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia (2010)
Zi-Qiang Zhu University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, United Kingdom (200708)

Research Associates
and Post-Docs
Asghar Abedini University of Tehran,
Tehran, Iran (200910)
Masoud Barakati University of
Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada (200910)
Mustafa BaysalYildiz Technical
University, Istanbul, Besiktas, Turkey
(200911)
Vladimir Blasko Power Elect.
& Automatic Control Dept. of
Electrotechnical Institute Rade Koncar,
Yugoslavia (198889)
Fernando Briz del Blanco University
of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain (199697)
Rik De Doncker Fulbright Scholar from
Katholieke Universiteit-Leuven, Leuven,
Belgium (198688)
Albert Esser Technical University of
Aachen, Aachen, Germany (199294)
Sung-Hoi Huh Korea University, Seoul
Korea (200507)
Axel Mertens Technical University of
Aachen, Aachen, Germany (198990)
Hassan Nikkhajoei University of
Toronto, Toronto, Canada (2009)
Peter Steimer ABB Industrie AG, Turgi,
Switzerland (19992000)
Lizhi SunHarbin Institute of Technology,
Harbin, China (200709)
Seung-Ki Sul Seoul National University,
Seoul, Korea (198688)

Pierluigi Tenca Siemens AG,

Transportation Systems, Erlangen, Germany
(200305)
Pierr Vadstrup Grundfos A/S,
Bjerringbro, Denmark (2003)
Andr Veltman University of
Eindhoven, the Netherlands, (199495)
Haiping Xu Institute of Electrical
Engineering, Beijing, China (200809)
Li Zhu Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Shanghai, China (201011)

Visiting Scholars
Sunil Gamini Abeyratne Gifu
University, Gifu, Japan (199295)
El-Sayed Mohamed Ahmed Peace
Fellowship Trainee, Egypt (199295)
Maddelena Aime University of Milan,
Italy (199798)
Pier Albano University of Bologna,
Bolgna, Italy (200001)
Mario Angiulli University Politecnico,
Milano, Italy (19992000)

Marc Artmeyer Technical University of

Aachen, Aachen, Germany (199495)
Andreas Averberg University of
Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2009)
Gamal Abdel F. Morad Azzam Peace
Fellowship Trainee, Egypt (199293)
Quntao An Harbin Institute of
Technology, PR China (200910)
Apoorva Athvale Indian Institute of
Technology, Hyderabad, India (2010)
Jamaica Barnette North Carolina A &
T, USA (2004, 2005)
Lennart Baruschka University of
Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2007)
Flemming Bendixen Grundfos,
Denmark (2002)
Stefen Bernet Technical University of
Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany (199596)
Claudio Bianchini Universita di
Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia,
Italy (2008)
Matthias Biskoping AIX Control
GmbH/ISEA, Eslohe, Germany (200809)
Giovanni Bottiglieri University of
Catina, Italy (2003)

Visiting professor Z.Q. Zhu enjoying the Badger Homecoming game.

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Andreas Broesse Technical University

of Aachen, Aachen, Germany (1996)
Bernd Cebulski Technical University of
Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany (199697)
Seo-Geon Chang LG Electronics
Systems Co. Ltd., Kyungki-Do, Korea
(199798)
Xiaomeng Cheng Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China (200910)
Edward Chikuni University of
Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe (199697)
Sung-Joon Cho Hyundai Heavy
Industries Co. Ltd, Gyeonggido, Korea
(200607)
Miroslav Chomat Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech
Republic (19992000)
Yong-Ho Chung Goldstar Industrial
Systems Company, Ltd., Kyngki-Do, Korea
(199496)
Mauricio Beltrao de Rossiter Correa
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande,
Brazil (200102)
Fabio Crescimbini University of Rome
La Sapienza, Rome, Italy (1986)
Shri Dixit Microprocessor Application
Engineering Center, University of Pune,
India (198890)
Vaibhav Donde University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champagne, Illinois (2004)
Bo Dong Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China (201011)
Dushan Drevensek University of
Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia (200001)
Deng Duo Anson Iron and Steel Co.,
Peoples Republic of China (198386)
Mohamed El-Morsi Transworld
Development & Trading Co., Cairo, Egypt
(200304)
Henrik Engdahl Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (199798)
Azza Fahim University of Cairo, Egypt
(1983) National Research Center of Cairo,
Egypt (198990)
Yakov Familiant University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA (2006)
Xiaozhi Gao Tianjin University, Tianjin,
China (2010)

Pablo Garcia Fernandez University of

Oviedo, Gijon, Spain (2004)
Luca Del Ferraro University of Rome
La Sapienza, Italy (2005)
Matthias Foerster Ilmenau Technical
University, Ilmenau, Germany (200102)
Francesco Gennaro University of
Catania, Catania, Italy (1998)
Juan Manuel Guerrero University of
Oviedo, Gijon, Spain (2002)
Lutz Gutenberg RWTH Aachen
University, Aachen, Germany (200809)
Seo Gyu-Seok Kyungpook National
University, Daegu, Korea (2008)
Christoph Hackl Technical University
of Munich, Germany (2003)
Makoto Hagiwara Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Tokyo, Japan (2004)
Christian Hareide Norwegian
University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway (200203)
Jan Hasenauer University of Stuttgart,
Stuttgart, Germany (2007)
Florian Hauser Karlsruhe University
of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe , Germany
(200708)
Yi Kang He Peoples Republic of China
(198283)
Laureen Hellouin University of Nantes,
France (199798)
Felix Hess University of Stuttgart,
Stuttgart, Germany (2007)
Kieth Hoffman Queensland University
of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
(198990)
Masafumi Horio Fuji Electric Device
Technology Co., Ltd., Matsumoto, Japan
(200709)
Hagen Jahn Technical University of
Dresden, Dresden, Germany (199495)
Jin-Hong Jeon Korea
Electrotechnology Research Institute, Korea
(200405)
Yu-Seok Jeong Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea (200102)
Sheng Ji Shenyang University, Peoples
Republic of China (198788)

Tan Wei Jian Peoples Republic of China

(1982)
Qin Jiang Victoria University of
Technology-Footscray, Melbourne,
Australia (199798)
Takushi Jimichi Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Tokyo, Japan (200708)
Neils Jorgenssen Denmark (199394)
Taeyoung Jyung Kyungpook National
University, Kyungpook, South Korea
(200708)
Shingo Kato Honda R&D Company,
Saitama, Japan (200507)
Takashi Kato Nissan Research Center,
Kangawa, Japan (201012)
Faeka Khater National Research
Center, Cairo, Egypt (198587)
Kyu-Chan Kim LG Electronics Systems
Co. Ltd., Kyungki-Do, Korea (199597)
Young-Kyoun Kim Samsung
Electronics Co., Ltd (2005)
Takeshi Komatsu Kagoshima
University, Kagoshima, Japan (200506)
Pauli Johannes Komi Finland
(200203)
Ulf Kreutzer Universitat der
Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany (2009)
Oystein Krovel Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Norway
(200405)
Rdiger Kusch Technical University of
Berlin, Berlin, Germany (200102)
Hyuk-Il Kwon Pohang Iron & Steel Co.
Ltd., Pohang, Korea (199596)
Jaime Arroyo Ledesma Cinvestav,
Guadalajara, Mexico (200506)
Jin-Won Lee Samsung Electronics Co.
Ltd., Suwon City, Korea (199495)
Wook-Jin Lee Seoul National
University, Seoul, South Korea (200708)
Alessandra Del Cengio Leonardi
University of Padova, Padova, Italy
(199296)
Franco Leonardi University of Padova,
Padova, Italy (199395)
Poh Chiang Loh Monash University,
Clayton, Victoria, Australia (2001)

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Family

Richard Lund Norwegian University

of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway (2001)
Stle Lygren NTNU, Trondheim,
Norway (2005)
Pukar Mahat Institute of Energy
Technology Aalborg University, Aalborg,
Denmark (2008)
Manuel Pinilla Martin Technical
University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
(200809)
Francesco Martinez University of
Madrid, Madrid, Spain (2011)
Yoichi Matsushita Kagoshima
University, Kagoshima, Japan (2001)
Kenji MitsumotoToshiba Corporation,
Tokyo, Japan (2006)
Roberto Moncada Gatica University
of Concepcion, Chile (2005, 2009)

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Yong-Ky Moon Samsung Electronics

Co. Ltd., Suwon City, Korea (199596)
Takashi Nagano Miyakonojo National
College of Technology, Japan (200506)
Melissa NaghibianUniversity of
WisconsinMadison, Madison, WI, USA
(2006)
Hayato NakanoFuji Electric Systems,
Tokyo, Japan (201012)
Helmut Niedrist Technical University
of Graz, Graz, Austria (199697)
Carlos E. Nino University of Puerto
Rico, Puerto Rico (2005)
Akihiro Nonaka Kagoshima University,
Kagoshima, Japan (200304)
David OBrien Monash University,
Clayton, Victoria, Australia (2000)
Giovanna Oriti University of Catania,
Catania, Italy (199598)

Sigurd Ovrebo Norwegian University

of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway (2001)
Debiprasad Panda India Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India (200002)
Chandana Pathirage Aalborg
University, Aalborg, Denmark (2000)
Trinde Pande-Rolfsen Norwegian
University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway (200203)
Jung Wook Park Seoul, Korea
(200304)
Sun S. Park Kolon Engineering, Seoul,
Korea (199091)
Mark Pedersen Aalborg University,
Denmark (200506)
Chandana Perera Aalborg University,
Aalborg East, Denmark (2000)

Shekar Perlekar Central Electronics

Engineering Research Institute (CEERI),
Pilani, India (1986)
Frank Phlippen Technical University of
Aachen, Aachen, Germany (199798)
Paolo Piagi Universita di Torino, Torino,
Italy (199495, 2005)
Daniel Pohlenz Ilmenau Technical
University, Ilmenau, Germany
Stefan QuadratUniversity of
Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany (2010)
Francesco QuattroneLeibniz
University, Hannover, Germany (201011)
Christian RabusUniversity of ErlangenNuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany (2010)
U.M. Rao Central Electronics
Engineering Research Institute (CEERI),
Pilani, India (198787)
David Diaz RegiosaUniversity of
Oviedo, Gijon, Spain (200708)
Habib Rehaolia University of Tunis,
Tunisia (1985)
Leopoldo Resta SIEI Peterlongo,
Gerenzano, Italy (199495)
Luiz Antonio d.Souza Ribeiro
University Federal da Paraiba, Paraiba, Brazil
(199698)
Jan RichnowUniversity of Bundeswehr,
Munich, Germany (2010)
Javier Rivas Carlos 3tr University of
Madrid, Madrid, Spain (200507)
Thomas RumpRostock University,
Malchow, Germany (2010)
Hong Je Ryoo Industrial Application
Laboratory/ KERI, Korea (200406)
Khaled Mohammed Sakkoury Peace
Fellowship Trainee, Egypt (199293)
Carlos Bo Santiago University of
Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (2002)
Hiroyuki Sano JSOL, Tokyo, Japan
(200810)
Guiseppe Scarcella University of
Catania, Catania, Italy (1998)
Yuichi Shibukawa Nissan Research
Center, Kanagawa, Japan (200710)
Shen Shicen Beijing Institute of Control
Engineering (198687)

Olaf Simon University of Karlsruhe,

Karlsruhe, Germany (199495)
Stev Skaar Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Norway (2005)
Brigitte Sneyers University of Brussels
(1983)
Eng Kian Kenneth Sng Ngee Ann
Polytechnic, Singapore, Singapore
(199596)
Rainer Sommer Technical University of
Berlin, Berlin, Germany (1990)
Joong-Ho Song Korea Institute of
Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
(199596)
Ana Stankovic Nikola Tesla EE Institute,
Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1990)
Ewgenij Starschich RWTH Aachen
University, Toenisvorst, Germany (200607)
Oscar Stielau Rand Africaans
University, Johannesburg, South Africa
(199191)
Gorazd Stumberger University of
Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia (199798)
Bum-Seok Suh Hanyang University,
Seoul, Korea (199798)
Chiping Sun Harbin Institute of
Technology, Harbin, Peoples Republic of
China (1990)
Takahiro SuzukiHitachi, Ltd., Hitachi,
Japan (200809)
Yusaku SuzukiJSOL Corporation, Tokyo,
Japan (201012)
Jun TamuraNissan Research Center,
Kangawa, Japan (201012)
Roberto Terrigi Ansaldo Ricerche, Italy
(2004)
Valentin Tijeras Universidad de
Granada, Granada, Spain (2000)
Akio Toba Fuji Electric Company, Ltd.,
Tokyo, Japan (199798)
Jose Torrico Unicamp, Brazil (2000)
Pietro Tricoli University of Naples
Federico II, Naples, Italy (2005)
Andrew Tuckey Eindhoven University
of Technology (200001)
Mark UbbinkHAN University Arnhem/
Nijrnegen, Arnehm, The Netherlands (2009)

Ren Cristin Valenzuela University

of Concepcin, Concepcin, Chile
(200102)
Rahul Varma Central Electronics
Engineering Research Institute (CEERI),
Pilani, India (198687)
Jens-Uwe Vilsser University of
Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (199495)
Oskar Wallmark Chalmers University
of Technology (2005)
Marsha Walters North Carolina AT&T,
Greensboro, NC, USA (2006, 2007)
Feng Xiang Wang Peoples Republic of
China (198283)
Li Mei Wang Shenyang University
of Technology, Shenyang, P.R. China
(199899)
Kai Warns Technical University of
Aachen, Aachen, Germany (199798)
Masaki WasekuraToyota Motor
Corporation, Toyota, Japan (201112)
Bernhard Werner Technical University
of Aachen, Aachen, Germany (199091)
Karsten WiedmannUniversity of
Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2009)
Rudolf Wieser Technical Universityof
Vienna, Vienna, Austria (199798)
Hon Win WoonUniversity of Warwick,
Warwick, United Kingdom (200607)
Hanguang Wu University of Fuzhou,
Peoples Republic of China (198486)
Shanshan WuTsinghua University,
Beijing, China (200708)
Yan-Hong Xue Tsing Hua University,
Beijing, China (198990)
Sheng-Yang Yeh University of Taiwan,
Taiwan (1986)
Sung-Jung Yoon Samsung Aerospace,
Yongin-Kun, Kyungki- Do, Korea (199596)
Xinmei YuanTsinghua University ,
Beijing, China (200809)
Shujun Zhang Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway (201011)
Yifan Zhao China University of Mining
and Technology, Xuzhou, China (199091)

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