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
EMI in Motor Drive Systems
Lei Xing – Staff Engineer – Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Non-Contact Magnetic Gears and Magnetically Geared Machines: Operating Principles, Design Considerations, and Applications
Hamid Toliyat – Endowed Professor – Texas A&M University
Motor Research at MIT
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 – Postdoctoral Fellow-Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Shuangxia Niu – Associate Professor – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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
- Electric Aircraft
- Automation & Robotics
- Advances in Automotive Technologies
- Marine Electrification
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.
Industry Exhibition
- Demonstrations and exhibits by relevant industry partners.
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.