SEPOC 2017 is the 10th edition of the Seminar on Power Electronics and Control and this year the conference will be held with the IEEE seal. The meeting will take place at the Technology Center of the Federal University of Santa Maria and is organized by the IEEE Chapters and Student Branch.

The seminar’s objective is to provide interaction among academia and industry to discuss the latest cutting-edge technologies on Power Electronics and Control and their applications. In 2017, the conference is themed on distributed power generation.


Plenary Session 03: Reliability of Power Electronic Systems – Challenges and State-of-the-Art 

 Speaker: Huai Wang - Aalborg University, Denmark Huai Wang is currently an Associate Professor and a Research Thrust Leader with the Center of Reliable Power Electronics (CORPE), Aalborg University, Denmark. 

His research addresses the fundamental challenges in modelling and validation of power electronic component failure mechanisms, and application issues in system-level predictability, condition monitoring, circuit architecture, and robustness design. Prof. Wang is a lecturer of a 2-day industry/PhD course on Capacitors in Power Electronics Applications, and a 3-day industry/PhD course on Reliability of Power Electronic Systems held annually at Aalborg University. He is an invited speaker at the European Center for Power Electronics (ECPE) workshops, and a tutorial lecturer at leading power electronics conferences (ECCE, APEC, EPE, PCIM, IECON, etc.). He has co-edited a book on Reliability of Power Electronic Converter Systems in 2015, filed four patents in capacitive DC-link inventions, and contributed a few concept papers in the area of power electronics reliability. Prof. Wang received his PhD degree from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Bachelor degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He was a visiting scientist with the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, from August to September 2014, and with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, from September to November 2013. He was with the ABB Corporate Research Center, Baden, Switzerland, in 2009. He received the IEEE PELS Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award, in 2016, for the contribution to the reliability of power electronic conversion systems. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

LINK  : http://farol.ufsm.br/transmissao/transmissao-ao-vivo-sepoc-24102017-09h