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Society News

PELS Distinguished Lecturers:
Class of 2014-2015

he IEEE Distinguished Lecturers (DLs) Program is one of
the most exciting offerings
available to IEEE Society Chapters.
Each year, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) selects several distinguished members of our profession
as DLs, to celebrate and honor their
high achievements in the field of
power electronics and to support
PELS activities by providing high-profile speakers for local Chapter/Section
events.

DLs of 2014-2015
Gerard Hurley
Prof. Gerard Hurley received his
B.E. degree from
University College
Cork, his M.S.
degree from the
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D.
degree from the National University of
Ireland, Galway. He worked in Canada
from 1977 to 1983 for Honeywell and
Ontario Hydro. He is currently a professor of electrical engineering at the
National University of Ireland, Galway.
His research interests include high-frequency magnetics, power quality, and
renewable energy systems. He received
the Middlebrook Technical Achievement Award for 2013. He was the generDigital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2014.2301215
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al chair and main organizer of the IEEE
Power Electronics Specialists Conference in 2000. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Available Talks
■■"A

Unified Approach to Transformer and Inductor Design: Theory and
Applications"
■■"High-Frequency Magnetics: Core
and Winding Losses"
■■"Planar Magnetics: Models, Materials, and Process."

(IAS). He was an associate editor
for the transactions of both Societies. He was also involved in the
Energy Conversion Congress and
Exposition (ECCE) as technical program vice cochair in 2009-2011 and
technical program cochair in 2012.
He received the IAS Transactions
Prize Paper Award in 2009 and the
IEEE IAS Industrial Power Converter Committee Prize Paper Award
in 2012.

Contact Information

Available Talks

Prof. William Gerard Hurley
National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland
E-mail: gerard.hurley@nuigalway.ie
Tel: +353 87 659 2335

■■"Powering

Po-Tai Cheng
P o - Ta i C h e n g
received his B.S.
degree from
National Chiao
Tung University,
Taiwan, in 1990
and his Ph.D.
degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. Since then,
he has been with the Department of
Electrical Engineering, National
Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, where
he is currently a professor. His
research interests include renewable energy systems, smart grid, and
high-power converters. Dr. Cheng is
an active member of PELS and the
IEEE Industry Applications Society

z March 2014

Critical Loads-A Taiwan Experience"
■■"Autonomous Control Techniques
for Microgrid Applications"
■■"Low-Voltage Ride-Through of
Renewable Energy Converters"
■■"PWM and Controls Technique of
ac/dc Converters/Inverters."

Contact Information
Po-Tai Cheng
Department of Electrical Engineering
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
E-mail: ptcheng@ieee.org
Tel: +886 3 574 2794
Fax: +886 3 5715971

Pat Wheeler
Prof. Pat Wheeler received his
B.Eng. (honors)
degree in 1990
from the University of Bristol,
United Kingdom.

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