Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Since its founding in 1981, WEMPEC has become a global hub for excellence that continues to make pioneering contributions to research, education, and professional service in our field of electric machines, power electronics, and drives. As part of our plans for celebrating this special occasion of reaching 40 years in 2021, the faculty and alumni …
1938 – 2020 by Prof. Tom Jahns Thomas A. Lipo, our esteemed faculty colleague, passed away on May 8, 2020, after a battle with cancer. Tom was a pioneer in the field of electrical machines, power electronics, and machine drives, whose prolific 50-year career spanned nearly the complete history of modern solid-state adjustable-speed motor drives …
The Hilldale Award is UW-Madison's highest honor on-campus for Research, Teaching, and Service. It is given annually to only 4 faculty members, one each from Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Biological Sciences. Congratulations to Prof. Jahns!
Prof. Ludois discusses the challenges wind turbines and robots pose to magnetic machine technology and ways to meet the needs for electric machines in the future. Could electrostatic machines be the solution?
A new text book 'Feedback Amplifiers: Design Oriented Analysis', coauthored by Prof Hitchon and Prof. Giri Venkataramanan, has been published.
1946 – 2019 Delivered at the Celebration of Life Service at Covenant Presbyterian Church Madison, WI, February 9, 2019 by Prof. Tom Jahns How does one find the right words to capture the essence of Bob Lorenz? “Special”, “unique”, and “one-of-a-kind” are certainly among the terms that come to mind, but they don’t come anywhere …
Congratulations to Professor Bulent Sarlioglu, who has been named a recipient of the Nagamori Award. Sarlioglu is recognized by his “Pioneering research and development on high-efficiency and high-power density new and classical electric motors with wide bandgap device power electronic drives.”
Founders’ Message: 35th Anniversary of WEMPEC The 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 …