8th Biennial IEEE Workshop

The 8th biennial IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics in Transportation (WPET 2004) will be held Thursday, Oct. 21, and Friday, Oct. 22, in the Detroit area at the Sheraton Detroit Novi. Sessions will discuss electrical machines and control; inverters and converters; devices and EMI; and system and testing.

WPET 2004 is sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society and IEEE Southeast Michigan Section, in collaboration with IEEE Society of Vehicular Technology and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). The keynote luncheon speaker on Oct. 21 will be Anand Sankaran from Ford Motor Co., who will present, “Power Electronics in the Hybrid Escape: Challenges and Success.”

For more information, visit www.engin.umd.umich.edu/ECE/~WPET/.