PELS Technical Committee on Automotive Power Electronics

Chair: the current chair is listed as a member of the Administrative Committee

Charter: To initiate, stimulate and help coordinate work on specifications, standards, test procedures and safety and reliability issues in automotive power electronics.

Responsibilities:

Develops methods and tools for evaluating new standards and specifications for automotive power electronics subsystems.
Sponsors tutorials, short courses, sessions at conferences and workshops on automotive power electronics.
Publishes collections of papers, special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, bibliographies and PELS NEWSLETTER articles on automotive power electronics.
Sponsors standards for automotive power electronics components, equipment and sub-systems.
Works with the SAE (formerly named the Society of Automotive Engineers, other IEEE societies and universities in the promotion of research in the field of power electronics.
Publishes an annual report each January 1 which summarizes the work of the preceding year, issues in progress and goals for the coming year, along with a current committee roster.
Publishes an interim report in June to describe progress toward goals and to give AdCom members an opportunity to discuss and comment on the committee's activities.

A primary activity of the committee is to organize the biannual Workshop on Power Electronics in Tranportation. Please see the Meetings Page to get updated links and information.

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