Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
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 …
It turns out that Benjamin Franklin was on to something in 1747. Read about C-Motive Technologies' research into macro-scale electrostatic motors.
Energy-related research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has evolved over the institution's first 175 years, from departmentally-segregated work focused largely on technological innovation to a more holistic and interdisciplinary approach that bridges technologies, environmental and social impacts, and policy. Explore some of the university’s contributions to energy research in this five-part series
Assistant Professor Mahima Gupta is featured in ECE's "Focus on the new Faculty" article.
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 …
Prof. Daniel Ludois is the first WEMPEC Faculty member to be featured in ECE's evolving "Focus on Faculty" video profile series. Follow the link to learn more about what drives him and his research group!
Semiconductor chips aren’t just the “brains” of our computers and smart phones. A different variety of chip, called power semiconductors, transform, route and manage the energy that powers our gadgets and are equally as important. Making them faster and more efficient is just as critical to enabling next generation technologies as improving processor speed.
Over a hundred years ago, the English economist William Stanley Jevons keenly observed that technological advances that increase energy efficiency leads to further increased energy consumption and not the other way around. In this talk, Prof. Giri reviews Jevons' observations and links it to present ones. The talk was given in September 2023 as part of the Wisconsin Energy Institute's Sustainable Energy series.
WEMPEC PhD student David Skrovanek, Professor Dan Ludois, and Professor Ted Brekken of Oregon State University are among the first stage winners on the DOE's InDEEP prize supporting research in the area of ocean wave energy technology.