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Power & Energy (PE) and Power Electronics (PEL) Chapter

About us:

Welcome to the joint IEEE Chapter of Power & Energy and Power Electronics. Our ambition is to provide support to all IEEE PE/PEL members in Sweden, by interesting seminars, webinars, membership development support, and other useful tools and information for your academic or industry work life.

Recent News:

Awards 2024

The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) and Power Electronics Society (PELS) Joint Chapter Sweden is delighted to announce the 2024 awards, including two brand new awards for this year!
At this stage, we are calling for nominations for the following four awards:

Best PhD Thesis Award

Eligibility Criteria:

  • The PhD thesis must be nominated by the University (typically, the main supervisor).
  • The thesis must have been published in the past two years (2023, 2024).
  • The topic must align with the areas of interest of PES or PELS.
  • The PhD student must be an IEEE member at the time of application.

Award Details:

  • Prize: 5000 SEK and an award certificate for the Best PhD Thesis.
  • The award will be presented at the IEEE PES/PELS Chapter Annual Meeting, details to be announced.

How to Nominate:

Best M.Sc. Thesis Award

Eligibility Criteria:

  • MSc thesis examined by a Swedish university in 2024.
  • Applications can be submitted by the students themselves (no endorsement required).
  • The thesis topic must align with the areas of interest of PES or PELS.
  • Open to all students – IEEE membership is a plus, but not required.

Award Details:

  • Prize: 2000 SEK and an award certificate for Best M.Sc. Thesis.
  • The award will be presented at the IEEE PES/PELS Chapter Annual Meeting, details to be announced.

How to Apply :

>> NEW FOR THIS YEAR!! <<

Outstanding Engineer Award 2024

The IEEE PES / PELS Jt Chapter Sweden is proud to introduce the Outstanding Engineer Award, to recognize outstanding engineering performance by individuals who are members of our Chapter. 

Award Details:

  • Members are recognized in one of two categories: “less experienced” (less than 15 years since graduating with their first professional degree) or “more experienced” (15 or more years since graduation).
  • Up to two awards (one for each experience level) are presented annually to engineers that best fit the selection criteria. 
  • Recipients will receive personal recognition and an Outstanding Engineer Award Plaque.
  • The award will be presented at the IEEE PES/PELS Chapter Annual Meeting, details to be announced.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Outstanding technical competence and engineering achievements.
  • Outstanding professional and leadership contributions to the power and energy profession.
  • Outstanding contributions in the area of power and energy education.
  • Significant contributions to the local community representing the power and energy profession.
  • Service to the Power and Energy Society and/or IEEE.
  • Membership of IEEE and PES or PELS.

How to Nominate:

Outstanding Volunteer Award 2024

The IEEE PES / PELS Jt Chapter Sweden is proud to introduce the Outstanding Volunteer Award,  presented annually to outstanding volunteers to recognize their service to the Chapter and Society.

Award Details:

  • One award is presented annually to the volunteer that best fit the selection criteria. 
  • The award committee may choose to recognize volunteers whose service contributions span over a number of years, or specific contributions during the past year. 
  • Recipients will receive personal recognition and an Outstanding Volunteer Award Plaque. 
  • The award will be presented at the IEEE PES/PELS Chapter Annual Meeting, details to be announced.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Outstanding leadership contributions to local and/or transnational IEEE PES or PELS Chapters.
  • Outstanding service contributions to technical activities of IEEE PES or PELS Society and/or local Chapter(s).
  • Outstanding service contributions to the promotion of IEEE PES or PELS Society and/or local Chapter(s).
  • Membership of IEEE and PES or PELS.

How to Nominate:

The first week of December is DEI Week – launched for first time by IEEE PES Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Join us at KTH Royal Institute of Technology or online, for this workshop arranged and moderated by Prof. Qianwen Xu, vice-chair of Sweden’s Jt Chapter of IEEE Power & Energy Society and IEEE Power Electronics Society. Listen to presentations by Prof. Qing-Chang Zhong from Illinois Institute of Technology and Dr. Vineetha Ravindran from Scania Group and ask your questions in the following panel. More information & Registration (by November 30th)

Selected Past Events:

Sept. 23rd, 2024: IEEE Technical Seminar on “Energy Storage and Grid-Forming Control in Future Power Grids” and IEEE Senior Membership Elevation Event.

Sep. 4th, 2024: IEEE Seminar on “Key Research Aspects of Green Hydrogen Production” by Prof Antti Kosonen, Lappeenranta University of Technology.

Jun. 18th, 2024: IEEE Distinguished Lecture on “Control and Protection of Multi-Terminal DC Grids” by Prof Maryam Saeedifard, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Feb. 21st, 2024: Annual Meeting, IEEE PES/PELS Chapter, Sweden. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alireza Nami, Research Centre Manager, Hitachi Energy

Sep. 29th, 2023: IEEE Seminar on Future energy system with focus on grids in distribution and wind power by Dr. Fredrik Carlsson, R&D portfolio manager, Distribution, Vattenfall and Viktorija Dudjak, Senior R&D Engineer, Vattenfall.

Sep. 1st, 2023: CAREER PATHS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR IN TRANSITION

The event explored the importance of diversity in the energy transition by bringing speakers with different backgrounds and experience together to share their journey and learnings. Agenda and presentations:

Mar. 16th, 2023: Annual Meeting, IEEE PES/PELS Chapter, Sweden. Keynote Speaker: Prof. Xiongfei Wang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, “Powering the Future: Grid-Forming Converter Technology and Implementation“

Jan. 27th, 2023: WBG Power Center Seminar on “Efficiently Paralleling GaN-Transistors for High-Current and High-Frequency Applications Using a Butterfly Layout” by Dr. Martin Wattenberg, Infineon Technologies.

Nov. 18th, 2022: IEEE Seminar on “Integration of Distributed Energy Resources & Electric Transportation in Distribution Systems” by Dr. Julio Romero Agüero, Vice President, Strategy & Business Innovation at Quanta Technology. 

Mar. 28th, 2022: Annual Meeting IEEE PES/PELS Sweden Chapter, including Keynote Speech “Fundamentals of HVDC LCC and Chile´s Kimal Lo Aguirre HVDC project” by Dr. Gabriel Olguin.

Dec. 9th, 2021: IEEE on-line seminar “Integration of Inverter-Based Resources, an example of ERCOT” by Dr. Julia Matevosyan.

Nov. 4th, 2021: IEEE Seminar on “High Power Density Converter Designs – New Circuit Topologies, Control Techniques, and Packaging to Achieve Extreme Size Reductions in Applications Ranging from Datacenter Power Delivery to Electric Aircrafts.” by Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, UC Berkeley.

Sep. 23rd, 2021: IEEE Seminar on “Electrical vehicles for sustainable developments with a European perspective”, by Professor Lina Bertling Tjernberg.

May 26th, 2021: IEEE Seminar on “Microgrids: Swedish and International Perspectives” by invited experts from academia and industry.

Apr. 23rd, 2021: IEEE Lunch Webinar: “The role of inertia and fast frequency control in the Nordic power system” by Dr. Robert Eriksson, Svenska kraftnät.

For more information about upcoming or past events please see events posted at http://r8.ieee.org/sweden/events/.

The current board of the PE/PEL Chapter

Chair: Ambra Sannino, ambra.sannino@ieee.org

Vice-chair: Qianwen Xu, qianwenx@kth.se 

Treasurer: Sara Rönnberg, sarah.ronnberg@ltu.se

Secretary: Fran Marquez, fran.marquez@iea.lth.se,

Membership development: Johanna Rosenlind, johanna.rosenlind@foi.se

Webmaster: Daniel Johannesson, daniel.johannesson@hitachienergy.com

Student Representative: Ali El Mohajer, aliem@kth.se

IEEE Power & Energy (PE) and Power Electronics (PEL) joint Chapter, Sweden

Last update: 2024-11-22