IEEE-Madison Joint PES-IAS Chapter Meeting December 11th, 2018
PES and/or IAS Society Member:
This email announces the first meeting of the new Joint PES-IAS Chapter for the IEEE-Madison Section. Over the last few months, a small group of PES-IAS members and leaders from the IEEE-Madison Section have been busy forming and organizing the Chapter. The first meeting (documented below) will be to elect the first Officers for the Chapter and hear a technical talk. It will also be followed by a social event, giving you an opportunity to meet the Officers and you colleagues in the PES/IAS.
Officer Slate:
Chair: Dan Ludois
Vice Chair: Eric Severson
Secretary/Treasurer: Michael Stemper
The initial By Laws can be viewed at this link
PLEASE JOIN US FOR this Kick-Off Meeting.
December PES-IAS Meeting: "Static Cling to Move the Industrial World"
- Tuesday, December 11th, 5:30-7:00 PM
- Speaker: Dan Ludois, UW-ECE Department
- Location:
Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 - Please Register at the IEEE-Madison event page.
Election: This is the Kick-Off Meeting for the newly created IEEE-Madison Joint Power & Energy and Industry Application Society (PES-IAS). The meeting will start with an election of the PES-IAS officers (Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary/Treasurer). After the election, Dan will present the technical talk followed by a reception in Union South.
Bio: Daniel Ludois received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2012 and B.S. in Physics from Bradley University in 2006. Dr. Ludois currently serves as assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in UW–Madison’s College of Engineering, associate director of the internationally renowned Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC), and is an affiliate of the Wisconsin Energy Institute. Dr. Ludois’s research focus has been on broadening the horizons of capacitive coupling via new dielectric materials and high frequency power electronics. Applications include compact wireless power transfer for mobile and rotating equipment, brushless electric machine bearing current mitigation, electrostatic (e-field) machinery, and dual energy cores for integrated inductor-capacitors.
Dr. Ludois’s efforts in electrostatic machinery earned him national recognition via a 2015 National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a 2017 Moore Inventor Fellowship. This high-risk-high-reward work focuses on the removal of steel, copper, permanent magnets in electric machines, transitioning entirely to plastic and aluminum for lower cost and ease of manufacturing. Dr. Ludois has published >40 papers and has 16 issued and pending patents collectively. He currently teaches ECE 411 “Introduction to Electric Drives” and ECE 711 “Dynamics and Control of AC Drives” and advises 6 Ph.D. students.He is also cofounder and chief science officer of C-Motive Technologies, a start-up business dedicated to producing innovative, energy and cost-efficient electrostatic motors.
