IEEE Energy Conversion and Congress Expo (ECCE) 2024 was hosted in Phoenix, AZ, Oct 19-24. CURENT has 10 Professors and Staff (Kevin Bai, JiangBiao He, Leon Tolbert, Fred Wang, Ruirui Chen, Jingxin Wang, Shiyuan Fan, Anubrata Das, Nupur, Anwesha Mukhopadhyay) and 9 Students (Ziwei Liang, Farzad Yaghoobi Notash, Mohamed Farag, Paychuda Kritprajun, Niu Jia, Sadia Binte Sohid, Min Lin, Zihan Gao, Ching-Hsiang Yang) who participated in this conference and won multiple awards, including:
- Best paper award, “Model Predictive Control of 5L-ANPC Inverter Fed AFPM Motor with Mitigated Common-Mode Voltage in Electric Aircraft Propulsion,” Farzad Y. Notash, Matin Vatani, JiangBiao He and Dan Ionel;
- 3rd place paper award for “Packaging a 100kW All-GaN-based Three-level Active Neutral Point Clamped Power Module for Electric Vehicle Motor Drives”. The article features the collaboration between CURENT and Volkswagen, co-authored by Kevin Bai, Daniel Costinett, Leon Tolbert and Fred Wang;
- 2nd place student demonstration award, “Magnetic and Insulation Techniques for Medium Voltage DC/DC Converters Using 10-kV SiC Devices,” by Zihan Gao from Dr. Fred Wang’s group.
In addition, Kevin Bai served as the technical program co-chair for the conference. Fred Wang was recognized for 20 years of IEEE service. CURENT also had a booth at ECCE exhibiting the research program, particularly power electronics.
Dr. Foote (CURENT former student)