IEEE IES member Frede Blaabjerg receives one of IEEE’s highest awards―the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal "For contributions to and leadership in power electronics, developing a sustainable society.” The 2020 IEEE Edison Medal is given for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts, sponsored ...
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What makes the Industrial Electronics Society different from other Societies of the IEEE is its multidisciplinarity, stated in the Society’s Constitutions: “The Field of Interest of the IES shall be confined to the theory and applications of electronics, controls, communications, instrumentation and computational intelligence to industrial and manufacturing systems and ...
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Facing the world health situation, many activities inside IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) have been moved to virtual this year. On June 20 and 21, the IES has successfully conducted, for the first time in the Society’s history, the Administrative Committee (AdCom, see note below) meeting online. Due to the ...
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The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) has just announced the 2020 recipients of the society’s awards! Congratulations to them! IES would like also to express great appreciations to the IES Awards & Honors Committee chaired by John Hung for their work! Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award Recipient: Mo-Yuen Chow North ...
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As part of IEEE Connecting Experts program, Sertac Bayhan, Senior Scientist at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute to talk about microgrids, including the current status and also future opportunities. The technical talk entitled “Microgrids: The Pathway to Smart and Cleaner Energy Future” was scheduled on June 28 at ...
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Authors: Chen Li; Tao Yang; Ponggorn Kulsangcharoen; Giovanni Lo Calzo; Serhiy Bozhko; Christopher Gerada; Patrick Wheeler Extended Abstract: Since the beginning of the More Electric Aircraft (MEA) concept an increasing number of hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical aircraft functional systems have been considered for replacement by electrical systems to improve fuel ...
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Authors: Lei Ding; Qing-Long Han; Xian-Ming Zhang Extended Abstract: As a promising paradigm of power grids, a microgrid has been gaining popularity due to its strong ability of integration of renewable energy sources such as wind turbines, photovoltaic arrays and fuel cells. The large-scale penetration of such distributed energy sources ...
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Authors:  James Langston; Andrew Rockhill; Karl Schoder; Michael Sloderbeck; Michael Steurer Extended Abstract: An approach for testing the operation and coordination of medium-voltage dc solid state circuit breakers (SSCB) for shipboard power systems is described. For the considered application, the rate of rise of current during a short-circuit is limited ...
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Authors: Margarita Norambuena ; Samir Kouro ; Sibylle Dieckerhoff ; Jose Rodriguez Extended Abstract: Multilevel converters have made a strong entrance in the low voltage market (typically below 690V), particularly for wind and photovoltaic energy conversion systems, UPS, and EV fast-charging stations. Since the device blocking voltage is not an ...
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Authors: Bo Cheng ; Jingyi Zhang ; Gerhard P. Hancke ; Stamatis Karnouskos ; Armando Walter Colombo Extended Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) technology provides new opportunities to build powerful industrial systems by connecting a large number of smart networked embedded devices. Devices within these industrial IoT (IIoT) or industrial ...
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