FREEDM members, faculty, staff & students should contact Terri Kallal (tlkallal@ncsu.edu) for discounted rates.
Non-FREEDM members and the general public may REGISTER HERE. Receive 50% off if you register before March 4, 2021.
2021 Symposium Schedule
| 1:00 p.m. | Welcome | Louis Martin-Vega, PhD Dean of the College of Engineering NC State University | |
| Director's Message | Iqbal Husain, PhD Professor, Director of FREEDM NC State University | ||
| 1:20 p.m. | Federal Program Manager Plenary | Aranya Chakrabortty, PhD Program Director National Science Foundation | |
| Guohui Yuan, PhD Program Manager DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office | |||
| 2:00 p.m. | Technical Sessions | ||
| Energy Storage | Lee Ragsdale Senior Vice President, Energy Delivery North Carolina's Electric Cooperatives | ||
| Bharat Balagopal, PhD Post Doctoral Research Scholar NC State University | |||
| Power System Economics | Wenyuan Tang, PhD Assistant Professor NC State University | ||
| Hao Zhu, PhD Assistant Professor University of Texas at Austin | |||
| 2:45 p.m. | Technical Sessions | ||
| Solid State Transformers | Iqbal Husain, PhD Professor, Director of FREEDM NC State University | ||
| Troy Beechner Vice President, Engineering Power Systems Division RCT Systems | |||
| Raja Ayyanar, PhD Professor Arizona State University | |||
| High Density Power Electronics | Doug Hopkins, PhD Research Professor NC State University | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | Adjourn | ||
| 1:00 p.m | Welcome | ||
| Keynote Address | Mike Rowand Director of Technical Services eTransEnergy | ||
| Keynote Address | Deepak Divan, PhD Professor, Director of the Center for Distributed Energy Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
| 2:00 p.m. | Technical Sessions | ||
| EV Charging | Zeljko Pantic, PhD Associate Professor NC State University | ||
| Power Electronic Devices | John Palmour, PhD Chief Technology Officer Wolfspeed | ||
| Ranbir Singh, PhD President GeneSiC Semiconductor | |||
| 2:45 p.m. | Student Research Presentations/Networking | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | Adjourn | ||