IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - December 2022 - 89
by Ashok Bindra
PELS Annual Townhall Meeting
Focuses on Future Growth
his year, the annual Townhall
Meeting of the IEEE Power
Electronics Society (PELS)
was an in-person event, held on 11
October 2022, as part of the IEEE
Energy Conversion Congress & Expo
(ECCE), at the Huntington Place,
Detroit, MI, USA. It began with a 35th
anniversary reception, followed by
meeting and discussion in a hall.
PELS President Liuchen Chang, professor
emeritus, University of New
Brunswick, Canada, kicked of the
Townhall Meeting with a slide presentation
that highlighted 35 years of
growth and excellence. Since the
establishment of PELS 35 years ago,
thousands of volunteers have
been working on the growth and
excellence of our society, stated
Chang. As a result, he added,
today there are 11,000+ members
world-wide, and 233 chapters,
joint chapters, and student
branch chapters in all 10 regions
of IEEE (Figure 1). With growing
applications of power electronics,
the society has created
12 technical committees (TCs)
to give a home to all power electronics
professionals, noted
Chang. The slides indicated that
today there are 3500+ members
participating in the 12 TCs, and
the number continues to grow.
According to Chang, PELS
has established new programs
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and increased support to existing
programs for chapters and regions.
Some of these include Women in
Engineering and Young Professional
(WIE & YP) breakfast events at
APEC and ECCE, YP receptions at
PELS conferences, mentorship
events at EPE-ECCE Europe and
ECCE, distinguished lecturers and
regional distinguished lecturers,
student symposia, and more. In
addition, PELS offers discounted
membership fees for low-income
countries.
Fur thermore, he continued,
PELS journals have doubled the
total page counts in the past five
years, and sponsors/co-sponsors
35+ worldwide conferences on
diverse topics, covering the entire
field of interest of PELS. Besides
highlighting the efforts of the Industry
and Standards committee, the
president also talked about expanding
the Ph.D. school programs
around the world, and established
scholarship and fellowship programs.
Before concluding his talk,
Chang indicated that the EBL-II
compet it ion was ongoing with
strong support from IEEE and nonIEEE
partners.
This presentation was followed
by a panel session moderated by
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