The IEMDC 2021 program will feature:
Keynote Sessions
Current Status and Future Plans for Electric Motors and Drives at NASA
Rodger Dyson – Hybrid Gas Electric Propulsion Technical Lead | NASA
Lifetime and Degradation of Vehicular Inverters
Hiroshi Ukegawa -Senior Manager, Power Electronics Research Group | Toyota Research Institute of North America
Air Condition Based Motor Drives
Hanjong Kim – Director, Power Electronics & Electrical Architecture Carrier, United Technology
Offshore Wind – The Next Maritime Industry
Kenneth Bowes – Vice President | Eversource Energy
How Intelligent Switched Reluctance Motor Systems are Unlocking Our Sustainable Future
Piyush Desai – Vice President & Co-Founder | Turntide Technologies
Flux Modulation Machines – Innovation & Beyond
Ronghai Qu – Vice Dean & Professor | Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Tutorials
A diverse portfolio of speakers are planned for IEMDC 2021
Superconducting Synchronous Machines For Torque-Dense Applications
David Torrey – Senior Principal Engineer in the Electrical Systems: GE Research
Model Predictive Control Of High Power Converters And Industrial Drives
Tobias Geyer – R&D Platform Manager – ABB Medium-Voltage Drives, Switzerland
Lei Xing – Staff Engineer – Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Matthew Johnson – US Army Research Laboratory – Energy & Power Division
Matthew C. Gardner – Assistant Professor – University of Texas at Dallas
Hamid Toliyat – Endowed Professor – Texas A&M University
James Kirtley – Professor – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
High Efficiency and High Power Density Integrated Motor Drives Using Wide Bandgap Power Electronics
Bulent Sarlioglu – Associate Professor – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thomas Jahns – Grainger Professor – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advanced Variable-Flux Permanent Magnet Machines for Wide-Speed-Range Applications
Hui Yang – Associate Professor – Southeast University
Shuangxia Niu – Associate Professor – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Industry Sessions
Ansys Solutions for Electric Machine and Drives
Speaker – Pavani Gottipati
Panels
- The panel topics below are planned involving 4-5 industry experts with specialties in a selected topic area. Each panelist will be given 20 minutes to present with 30 minutes of Q&A at the end.
Switched Reluctance Machines: Technology, Advances, and Applications
Panel organizer: Piyush Desai – Turntide Technologies
Panelists:
- Prof. Tom Jahns – University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Babak Fahimi – University of Texas at Dallas
- Akira Chiba – Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Rik W. De Doncker – RWTH Aachen University
Machines and Drives for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion
- Panel organizer: Kiruba Haran
- Panelists:
- Xin Wu
- Carlos Roberto Ilario
- Christian Donadille
- Ralph Jansen
Advances in Land Transportation Electrification
- Panel organizer: Lakshmi Varaha Iyer – Magna International
- Panelists:
- Brij Singh – John Deere
- Bruno Lequesne – Consultant
- Burak Ozpineci – Oak Ridge National Lab
Material Gaps Required to Realize Reliable Implementation of Marine Electrification – High Frequency Magnetics
- Panel organizer: Lynn Petersen – ONR
- Panelists
- Steven Glover – Sandia National Lab
- Dale Huber – Sandia National Lab
- Ravisekhar Raju – Fastwatt LLC
- Vince Harris – Northeastern University
Material Gaps Required to Realize Reliable Implementation of Marine Electrification – Insulation
- Panel organizer: Lynn Petersen – ONR
- Panelists
- Chris Dafis – NSWC-Philadelphia
- Yang Cao – UCONN
- Riccardo Casalini – Naval Research Lab
- Giancarlo Montanari –Florida State University
- Dana Delisle
Young Professionals in Engineering
- Panel organizer: Edvina Zunovic – WPI
- Panelists
- Julia Zhang – Ohio State University
- Collete Ruden – Otis
- Yan Li – Penn State University
- Wei Kou – GE Grid Solution
Oral Technical Sessions
- All papers submitted to the conference must be presented during one of the technical sessions. Each author will be given up to 15 minutes to present their work with live Q&A to follow at the end of the session.
Industry Exhibition
- Live industry demos, presentations and opportunities for one on one meet ups and connections in the industry.
Papers presented at IEMDC may be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, or IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, according to the rules specific to each Journal.