IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - June 2018 - 96

by Thomas Foulkes, Nathaniel Renner, Christopher Barth, Joyce Mast, and Enver Candan

PEs/PEls/Ias University of Illinois at
Urbana-champaign Joint chapter
Engages community

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ngaging members in fulfilling
professional development,
service activities, and social
events has been a key ingredient for
ensuring the successful growth of the
joint IEEE Power and Energy/Power
Electronics/Industry Applications
(PES/PELS/IAS) Chapter at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Last year, the UIUC
Chapter hosted more than 36 professional development seminars by industry and academic leaders on topics
ranging from circuit architectures and
control schemes for enabling more
electric aircraft to high-quality power
electronics manufacturing methods.
These forums for technical exchange
and networking with researchers from
the wider PELS community create
value for students at UIUC and inspire
them to be active PELS members.
The UIUC Chapter also fosters
the importance of ser v ice for our
members by sponsoring several large
science, technology, engineering,
and math (STEM) outreach events.
For the last 98 years at the UIUC's
Engineering Open House (EOH),
the UIUC Power and Energy group
has been teaching the public about
the fundamentals of power and energy [Figure 1(a)]. Popular demonstrations this year included cooking food
on magnetically levitating frying pans,
using an exercise bike retrofitted
with a generator and power converters to illuminate light-emitting diode
luminaires, and launching projectiles
with a magnetic ring cannon. While
the EOH definitely inspires students

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2018.2821860
Date of publication: 14 June 2018

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(a)

(b)

FIG 1 (a) UIUC PELS graduate student members teach thousands of EOH participants
about the fundamentals of power and energy and (b) organize the annual IEEE PECI.
(Photos courtesy of the UIUC PELS Chapter members.)

forum for students in the early phases
to consider a STEM career, in 2017, our
of their careers to present their reChapter organized a panel discussion
search progress to a technical audience
at a local café to spark meaningful
of peers, professors, and industry reconversations with adults in the comsea rcher s, a nd to
munity about both
inspire students to
how power and enLast year, the UIUC
pursue a career in
ergy impacts their
the power and endaily lives and how
Chapter hosted more
ergy field. PECI has
current investments
than 36 professional
grown steadily over
in energy research
development seminars
the past nine years
are h e l p i n g to enby industry and
and welcomed 170
sure our nation's enacademic leaders on
attendees this year
ergy sustainability
topics ranging from
from i ndustr y a s
and security.
well as 44  universiM o r e o v e r , t he
circuit architectures
ties i n the Un ited
UIUC Chapter pro and control schemes
States and abroad.
vides members with
for enabling more
A lthough severa l
the opportunity to
electric aircraft to
registration scholgain valuable leadhigh-quality power
arships have been
ership ex per ience
electronics
given annually for
by organizing and
a u t hor s , s u p p o r t
ho s t i n g t he I E E E
manufacturing
from a National SciPower and Energy
methods.
e nc e Fou nd a t ion
Conference at Illinois
grant in 2018, the
(PECI) [Figure  1(b)].
application for which was writFounded in 2010, PECI is the oldest
ten by Chapter members, enabled 33
annual, student-run, international connonauthors (including four students
ference about power and energy techfrom Navajo Technical University)
nology. PECI seeks to provide both a

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