ECE Seminar Series - Challenges and Opportunities in Power Electronics: From Appliances to Electric Vehicles

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The Electrical and Computer Engineering department will be hosting a seminar featuring Fei Shang, Ph.D., Sr. Power Electronics Engineer at Hatco Corporation, Milwaukee, WI. The topic of the seminar will be Challenges and Opportunities in Power Electronics: From Appliances to Electric Vehicles.

Abstract

Power electronics is a bridge. It has very quickly become very essential to connect modern technologies with the traditional industries. Today, power electronics applications have emerged everywhere and significantly change the daily life of human being. Induction heating system brings a faster and safer way for cooking. It allows the chefs to have a more accurate control of the temperature, which will greatly change the cooking techniques. At the same time, vehicle electrification has brought some of the most significant changes to the traditional automotive market, which also cannot be realized without power electronics. In this talk, we will discuss industry experiences, explore job opportunities in this area and understand the role power electronics plays.

Speaker’s Biography

Dr. Fei Shang has 10 years industrial experience. He joined Beijing Accuenergy Technology Co., Ltd. Chinese company as a R&D engineer and later he was promoted to the product development manager and leading a group of engineers for developing smart power meters and motor protection units. He has been developed more than 7 different series of products. All of them are profitable products and have been selling all over the world. He then joined the world-famous semiconductor company Infineon Technologies where he had studied and solved over 350 failure cases for IGBT applications.

Dr. Shang started his career in the US with FCA (Fiat-Chrysler) US, LLC as a development engineer of DC/DC modules in electrified powertrain group. He was responsible for the development of the DC/DC module in many different vehicle projects. Since 2017, he joined Hatco Corporation as Sr. Power Electronics Engineer, responsible for developing the induction heating system for commercial cooking applications.

Note: This seminar is open to everyone at Illinois Tech. For more information regarding this seminar, please contact Dr. Mahesh Krishnamurthy in ECE, IIT. Phone: 7-7232, Email: kmahesh@ece.iit.edu