Category: Newsletter

The Annual Review is less than a month away! The lab is buzzing, the faculty and students’ presentations and posters are taking shape.The excitement is rising and we look forward to seeing you all there!Come be a part of a highly interactive environment in the field of power engineering. Don’t have a WEMPEC members-only user …

WEMPEC 2025 Annual Review – Registration is now Open! Please join us at Engineering Hall on the UW-Madison campus for WEMPEC’s 2025 Annual Review and be part of a highly interactive environment in the field of power engineering. The agenda for the two-day meeting includes: New mechatronics course developed by WEMPEC Faculty. Want to read …

Spring Semester – New Students SAVE THE DATE – 2025 WEMPEC ANNUAL REVIEWMay 14 & 15 2025Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonEngineering Hall1415 Engineering DriveMadison WI, 53706 Logistics and registration details will follow soon. ​

Congratulations to our Power Engineering Awardees These students earned Power Engineering Awards supported by the Grainger Foundation and the ECE Energy Systems Program: Luke Andersen Elijah Berger Gokhan Cakal Ken Chen Jiaqi Chen Yuhao Chen Abhinav Chinnusamy Mason Crooks Wenda Feng Ethan Geray Eric Haag Carmen Haseltine Silvia Iona Iordache Giancarlos Irizarry-Martinez Saket Kapse Bhumi …

Connect with WEMPEC at ECCE 2024!ECCE is one of the biggest conference events of the year for WEMPEC, and this year is no different. Professors Bulent Sarlioglu and Thomas Jahns are session panelists/speakers at the Simulation-Drive Electric Propulsion session and Aerospace Electrified Propulsion session, respectively. In addition, they each will be giving a tutorial on …

Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale Dan Ludois cofounded the company C-Motive Technologies with the goal to use advances in electric motors to build macro-scale electrostatic motors. Their current prototype is capable of delivering torque as high as 18 newton meters and power at 360 watts.You can read the full article on their work on …

GLOW Workshop UW-Madison will be hosting a workshop on the topic of offshore wind energy technologies for application on the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Offshore Wind (GLOW) activities are aimed to advance knowledge and understanding in fields of electrical, marine, aerodynamic, structural, legal, regulatory, social and environmental systems with a common goal to identify …

WELCOME MAHIMA GUPTA! Mahima Gupta will be joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) as an Assistant Professor this month. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), Madison, WI, in 2019 and 2015 respectively, where she was …

A Warm Welcome to new Faculty and Staff Members, and A Fond Farewell to a WEMPEC Staple New WEMPEC Faculty Member: Dr. Jinia Roy We are extremely pleased to welcome Jinia Roy, the first of two new faculty members joining WEMPEC this summer, on campus. Dr. Roy joined WEMPEC at the beginning of July and …