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NOTE: PES-IAS Room Assigned and YP-ECN Meeting Date Change

• 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
        Room 2535
        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.
  
  Presentation: Electric motors and generators (machines) are essential to our modern way of life.  As electric energy consumption steadily increases annually, these ubiquitous workhorses continue to be mass-produced for performing the pumping, heating, cooling, drilling, pressing, cutting, grinding, and moving that occurs every minute of every day.  The construction and operation of electric machines is predicated on magnetism, but if it were electrostatics (static cling), what would change?
  
  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.

• Young Professionals and ECN Meeting: "Sector67 Tour"

  
  • Wednesday, December 12th, 6:00 - 8:30 PM
  • Speaker: Chris Meyer, Sector67
  • Location: 
        Sector67
        56 Cory Street
        Madison, Wisconsin 53704
  • Please Register at the IEEE-Madison  event page.
  
  Event: This joint meeting of the IEEE-Madison Young Professional and Entrepreneurs and Consultants Network will feature a tour and dinner. Chris Meyer, founder of Sector67, will give a tour of the new facility -- a work in progress.  Sector67 now owns the building and has radically expanded the space.  The location is just a few blocks from the old location on Madison's East Side near the Goodman Community Center. The new, permanent location, offers a great future for Hackers in Madison.
  
  Social: Following the tour, Pizza and drinks will be served.