IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - June 2014 - 2

IEEE Power Electronics Magazine
Editor-in-chief
Ashok Bindra
12 Magnolia Ave.
Nesconset, NY 11767 USA
+1 631 471 5895
bindra1@verizon.net
Deputy Editors-in-chief
Ira J. Pitel (Industry)
Magna-Power Electronics, Inc.
39 Royal Road
Flemington, NJ 08822 USA
+1 908 237 2200 ext. 102
ipitel@magna-power.com
John Shen (Academic)
Grainger Chair Professor
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 35th Street, Suite 1600
Chicago, IL 60616 USA
+1 312 567-3352
zjohnshen@gmail.com

Magazine advisory Board
Don F.D. Tan
President
IEEE Power Electronics Society
Philip T. Krein
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Robert N. Guenther
NWL
John M. Miller
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ira J. Pitel
Magna-Power Electronics
Prasad Enjeti
Texas A&M University
John Shen
Illinois Institute of Technology
Bob White
Embedded Power Labs
William A. Peterson
E&M Power
IEEE Power Electronics
society officers
Don F.D. Tan
President
dong.tan@ieee.org
Braham Ferreira
President Elect
J.A.Ferreira@tudelft.nl

Deepak Divan
Sr. Past President
ddivan@varentec.com
Dushan Boroyevich
Jr. Past President
dushan@ieee.org
Alan Mantooth
VP Operations
mantooth@uark.edu
Braham Ferreira
VP Meetings
J.A.Ferreira@tudelft.nl
Prasad Enjeti
VP Products
enjeti@ece.tamu.edu
Jian Sun
Treasurer/Member-at-Large
jsun@ecse.rpi.edu
Peter Wilson
Standards Director
prw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Andreas Lindeman
Awards Chair
a.lindemann@ieee.org
Mario Pacas
Constitution and Bylaws Chair/
Member-at-Large
pacas@uni-siegen.de
2014 Members-at-large
Jose Cobos
jcobos@ieee.org
Annette Muetze
muetze@tugraz.at
Ira Pitel
i.pitel@ieee.org
Toshihisa Shimzu
shimizut@tmu.ac.jp
Peter Steimer
peter.steimer@ch.abb.com
Jian Sun
jsun@ecse.rpi.edu
2015 Members-at-large
Frede Blaabjerg
fbl@iet.aau.dk
Bob Guenther
RGuenther@nwl.com
Paolo Matavelli
paolo.mattavelli@gmail.com

Joao Pinto
joaonofre@gmail.com
Maryam Saeedifard
Women in Engineering Liaison
maryam@purdue.edu
John Shen
Distinguished Lecturer Chair
zjohnshen@gmail.com
2016 Members-at-large
Vladimir Blasko
blaskov@utrc.utc.com
Silva Hiti
silva.hiti@gm.com
Dan Kinzer
dan.kinzer@fairchildsemi.com
Mario Pacas
Consitution and Bylaws Chair
pacas@uni-siegen.de
Pat Wheeler
Pat.Wheeler@nottingham.ac.uk
Zhengming Zhao
zhaozm@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
technical committee chairs
John Hawkins
Communications Energy Systems
jmhawkins@ieee.org
Henry Chung
High Performance and Emerging
Technologies
eeshc@cityu.edu.hk
Brian Welchko
Motor Drives and Actuators
bwelchko@ieee.org
Yan-Fei Liu
Power and Control Core
Technologies
yanfei.liu@queensu.ca
Seth Sanders
Power Conversion Systems
and Components
sanders@eecs.berkeley.edu
Liuchen Chang
Sustainable Energy Systems
lchang@unb.ca
Anand Sathyan
Vehicle and Transportation
Systems
sathyan.anand@chrysler.com

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IEEE Power Electronics
society staff
Mike Kelly
Executive Director
m.p.kelly@ieee.org
Donna Florek
Technical Community
Program Specialist
d.florek@ieee.org
Jo-Ellen Snyder
Technical Community
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Mission stateMent: To educate,
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IEEE Power Electronics Society members
on technology, events, industry news, and
general topics relating to consumer
electronics and to further serve and support
our Members in professional career
development through tutorials and raising
awareness of engineering tools and
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