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 |