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 Dear
Students, Alumni, Sponsors, and Friends,
The Electric Power and Power Electronics Center (EPPEC) has been
established on the unique strengths of the Illinois Institute of
Technology (IIT) to become a leader in the areas of electric power,
power electronics, electric machines, motor drives, and vehicular
power systems. IIT has a long history of offering one of the finest
electrical power programs since 1930's and sponsored the important
American Power Conference for over fifty years. As the only
institution in the Chicago area that offers higher education in
power engineering, IIT supplies a great many power engineers and
research scholars to regional companies and throughout the
industry/academia in the U.S. and around the world. EPPEC faculty
members have been particularly successful in raising federal and
industrial support for conducting research and establishing new
state-of-the-art research and educational laboratories. In addition
to government funding, we have recently received over $2 million
from non-government sources including the Grainger Foundation to
build several new research/teaching laboratories and establish
scholarships to help attract the best and brightest to study power
engineering at IIT.
EPPEC occupies about 25 percent of Siegel Hall, a historically
important building designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1946. There are
more than 100 graduate and undergraduate students involved in our
educational and research activities on an annual basis. Hundreds of
important research papers, scholarly books, awards, and leadership
at industry conferences all attest to the phenomenal growth and
influence of EPPEC.
Our strategic plan includes two main initiatives. Our first priority
is to lead an unprecedented global effort in accelerating market
penetration of advanced vehicles through our newly established
Industry/Multi-university Consortium on Advanced Automotive Systems
(IMCAAS). IMCAAS mission is to make a leading contribution in the
field of automotive electrical systems (mainly automotive power
electronics and motor drives) for advanced automobiles, primarily
hybrid electric vehicles. Our second priority is to continue and
accelerate EPPEC's exceptional growth and raise an additional $5
million during the next five years for an endowment that will
provide support for the Center in perpetuity.
We have also developed a unique long-term plan to integrate
education, research, business, and leadership. Business aspects
include realistic constraints and implementation issues such as
cost, packaging, manufacturability, reliability, sustainability, and
safety. In addition, we are an important part of the IIT Energy and
Sustainability Institute. We are also heavily involved in IIT's
technology transfer activities to commercialize our innovative
technologies through IIT's Office of Intellectual Property and
Technology Transfer. I invite you to look at our Web page and
contact us if you have any questions or need any further
information.
Ali Emadi
Professor &
Director, Electric Power and Power Electronics Center
emadi@iit.edu
+1-312-567-8940 |
