Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES)

Power Electronic Experts Gather At Workshop To Develop Research Roadmap

Power electronics is critical to solving many energy and environmental issues, but the research community's lack of a clear multidisciplinary roadmap hinders more rapid development. The Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), an Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, organized a two-day conference to bring researchers and educators together to plot a more organized research effort and refine academia's role in advancing technology.

The "Impact of Academia on the Future of Power Electronics" workshop brought together 26 top experts in power electronics from 12 different countries and 16 CPES faculty and staff members for a two-day meeting on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Attendees made presentations and met in break-out sessions. The group identified power supplies, motor drives, vehicular power systems, appliances, utility power systems and alternative energy systems as key technology areas for research. More specifically, they singled out system architecture, power management and efficiency, integration and packaging, modeling, analysis, and design tools, high power and utility power applications and intelligent motor drives.

The workshop began development of a research roadmap, and established working groups to continue planning for development of the key technologies. The event will improve academia's ability to impact the future of power electronics and industry.

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Visit the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) outreach page at http://www.cpes.vt.edu/public/showcase/outreach.php

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More than 40 experts in power electronics
met in Hilton Head, South Carolina, to plan
for the multidisciplinary field's future.

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Last modified: April 13, 2007