IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - March 2021 - 91

IMPORTANT DATES
March 31, 2021

Proposal submission deadline

Call for Special
Sessions

May 1, 2021

Notification of session acceptance

June 1, 2021

Final session plan
submission deadline

The Thirteenth Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2021) will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, from October 10 to October 14, 2021. ECCE 2021 will bring together practicing engineers, researchers, and other energy
conversion professionals for interactive and multidisciplinary discussions on the latest advances in the areas related to
energy conversion.
Special Sessions are solicited focusing on emerging technologies and industry-oriented topics, featuring diversified formats
including oral presentations, open panel discussions, debates, virtual factory tour and demo, etc. Industry hosted or co-hosted
sessions are of particular interest, and audience participation is strongly encouraged. Note that commercialization content
should be avoided, and no written papers are required for Special Session presentations. Materials presented in the
Special Sessions are not subject to peer review and will not be made available in the conference proceedings. However,
presenters are encouraged to distribute their presentations to the audience.
Potential topic areas include but are not limited to:

Components and Converters

General Chair
Giovanna Oriti

Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Special Session Chairs
Xiaonan Lu
Temple University, USA

Fei Ding

National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, USA

Wide bandgap devices and their emerging applications in
power electronics
Artificial intelligence (AI) aided converter control and design
Thermal management, and advanced cooling technologies
Reliability, diagnostics, and prognostics of components and
modular systems

Electric machine design and motor drives
Advanced technologies for power electronics such as
materials, 3-D printing, magnets, magnetic devices,
capacitors, switching devices, EMI/EMC, etc.

Power Electronics Intensive Energy Conversion Systems
Renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, and
their integration into modern electric grids
AC, DC, and hybrid micro-grids and nano-grids
Power electronic based grid infrastructures: technologies,
trend, and grid integration

Others
Advanced testing and validation, including controller/power
hardware-in-the-loop testing, etc.
Standard development for power electronics
systems/products

Resiliency enhancement and active stabilization of power
electronics based power systems
Transportation electrification, including electric vehicles,
aircraft, ships, drones, etc.
Cybersecurity in power electronic inverters and inverter
dominated energy systems
Power electronics education and research for
under-represented groups
COVID-related innovations with power electronics
technologies

Proposal Submission Guidelines: Special Session organizers are requested to submit a maximum five-page proposal summarizing the proposed session plan.
The proposal should indicate the session format and should contain the session title, session organizer, presenters or panelists (with short biography), abstract, etc.
All proposals should be submitted via the ECCE 2021 website under " Call for Special Sessions " .

www.ieee-ecce.org/2021
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2020.3047541

Vancouver, Canada - October 10 - October 14 , 2021
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