Minutes
IEEE Power Electronics Society
Administrative Committee
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Acapulco, Mexico
15 June 2003
Officers
Dean Patterson
Ron Harley
F. Dong Tan
Steven Leeb
Philip Krein
Thomas Habetler
Philip Krein
President
Operations V.P.
Meetings V.P.
Treasurer
Senior Past President
Junior Past President
Division II Director
Members at Large (and terms)
2001-2001-1003
Rik W.A.A. DeDoncker
Johan H.R. Enslin
Kevin Fellhoelter
Hirofumi Matsuo
Rene Spee
Charles Sullivan
2002-2003-2004
Hirofumi Agaki
Frede Blaabjerg
Johann Kolar
David J. Perreault
Jose Rodriguez
Keyue Ma Smedley
2003-2004-2005
Issa Batarseh
Jan (Braham) Ferreira
Shu Yuen (Ron) Hui
Pallab Midya
Istvan Nagy
Alex Stankovic
Operations Committees
Asian Liaison
Automotive Power
Awards
Chapter Development
DC Systems TC
Simulaton.Modeling &
Control TC
Constitution/Bylaws
Education Activities
ETTC
European Liaison
Fellow Evaluation
History
Tatsuo Sakai
John Shen
Chris Riddleberger
Vassilios Agelidis
Jose Cobos
Antonelli Monti
Shu Yuen (Ron) Hui
Leon Tolbert
Bill Goethe
Bruno Allard
Thomas Habetler
Keyue Ma Smedley
Intersociety Liaison
Long-Range Planning
Membership/Publicity
Motor Drives TC
Newsletter
Power Packaging
Publications
Rectifiers/Inverters TC
Region 9 Liaison
Standards
Transactions
Electronic Media
Marcelo Simoes
Philip Krein
Enrico Santi
Alfio Consoli
Gene Wester
Douglas Hopkins
Alex Stankovic
Fang Z.Peng
Miguel Velez-Reyes
Jason Lai
Daan van Wyk
Grahame Holmes
Meetings Committees
Meetings
PESC Steering
F. Dong Tan
W. G. Hurley
Telecomm Energy
Katsuichi Yotsumoto
Mark Jacobs
President's Committee
Nominations
Thomas Habetler
PELS Executive Office
Executive Director
Robert Myers
PELS Office
Lee Myers
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PELS Representatives
TAB Public Relations Committee
IEEE Press Books
TAB Transactions Committee
TAB Newsletters Committee
IEEE Standards Board
TAB Intelligent Transportation Committee
APEC Steering Committee
Enrico Santi
William Hazen
Daan van Wyk
Gene Wester
Jin-Sheng (Jason) Lai
Dean Patterson
F. D. Tan, T. Wilson, Jr..
Past Presidents
William E. Burns III (Council 1984-86)
John Kassakian (Council 1987, Society 1988)
Pierre A. Thollot (1989-90)
Thomas G. Wilson, Sr. (1991-92)
Fred C. Lee (1993-94)
Thomas M. Jahns (1995-96)
Jerry L. Hudgins (1997-98)
Philip T. Krein (1999-2000)
Thomas Habetler (2001-2002)
Bold face signifies attendance at meeting
Guests: Jaime Arau, PESC‟03 Chair; Juan Balda, Associate Editor, PELS Newsletter; Edison Da
Silva, PESC‟05 Chair. Joep Jacobs, PESC;04 Committee, Ralph Kennel, PESC‟04 Technical
Program Chair
ACTION ITEMS
Bob Myers will advise all PELS-sponsored conferences of the new sister society
agreement with SOMEP and member-rate registrations offered to SOMEP
members.
Organizers of PESC’04 and PESC’05 will provide budgets to the PELS Executive
Office to coordinate filing of necessary conference forms.
Grahame Holmes and Pat McGoldrick will develop a formal plan for website
expansion for presentation at the fall meeting of the AdCom.
Myers will provide Tom Habetler and Dave Perreault a list of all Fellow grade PELS
members
MOTIONS
Approved a dues surcharge of $15 per year for members to receive Transactions
in printed form.
Authorized a letter of agreement and “sister society” arrangement between PELS
and the Sociedad Mexicana de Electronica de Potencia (SOMEP)
Declined an invitation to become a technical sponsor of a journal sponsored by
the Systems and Cybernetics Society.
Voted a $5,000 advance loan as a sponsor of CIEP’04 in Mexico.
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Approved technical co-sponsorship of the 2004 IEE Second International
Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives.
Asked the Meetings Committee to advise the APEC Steering Committee to submit
budgets for future conferences to the committee at least one year in advance.
Directed that budgets for all PELS-sponsored and technically co-sponsored
conferences be channeled through the PELS Executive Office to make sure they
are in order and complete.
Established a Transactions page budget for 2004 of 1,700 pages.
Approved in principal a plan for an educational workshop on power electronics to
be held in conjunction with PESC’05.
Asked the Constitution and Bylaws chair to further draft changes in the PELS
Constitution and Bylaws dealing with election of officers, addition of a presidentelect, term of office, Society-wide voting and renaming the title of Administrator
as Executive Director.
President Dean Patterson convened the meeting at 8:38 a.m. and led off with a series of
self introductions. The agenda as submitted was approved, as were the minutes of the
February 9 meeting of the AdCom at Miami Beach. Both motions were proposed by Ron
Harley with respective seconds by Chris Riddleberger and Phil Krein.
President’s Report- Patterson reviewed the status of IEEE, noting a decline of
membership but an increase in sales of electronic versions of publications. He said
discussions are underway to develop a “subset” of electronic online publications with the
Power Engineering Society and perhaps others. (Attachment 1)
Patterson announced the appointment of Frede Blaabjerg and Pallab Midya to the
Publications Committee. . Krein MOTION: moved approval, Rik DeDoncker seconded
and it was approved.
The President said he had – in consultation with the Treasurer - removed a $10,000 item
from the budget for a video promoting the technology of power electronics. The removal
followed discussions on the value of such videos with the Industry Applications and the
Power Engineering Societies.
Patterson said income and the bulk of surplus monies accumulated by IEEE come from
three areas – conferences, publications and membership fees. A significant increase in
sales, he said, has taken place in the area of electronic publications. The Institute‟s
financial objective for technical societies is to maintain a basic society dues structure to
cover essential costs. In that connection, Patterson referred to the AdCom plan at its
February meeting to raise basic Society dues to $20 a year and the additional cost of
$15 to receive printed copies of the PELS Transactions. The new dues level beginning
in 2004 was approved in February and Tom Habetler MOTION: moved approval of the
printed proceedings charge. Ron Harley seconded and the hardcopy charge was
approved.
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Patterson said the PELS dues-publication schedule for 2004 included:
Membership $20 including newsletter and online access of Transactions
Optional additional $15 for printed version of Transactions
Optional $10 for online access of PELS Letters
Membership in the Society has dropped a net of 4.8 the past year but the decrease has
been less than experienced by most societies. Krein said one factor in the membership
drop has been a decline in the number of students moving into regular memberships
after completing college work..
Patterson said a new formula – or algorithm – for return to societies of income from online sales of publications as part of the IEL All Societies Subscription Package has been
proposed and will be placed before TAB and other review bodies. He said the formula
takes into account three values – base factor, contribution factor and usage. The plan,
he said, would work to the advantage of our societies.
A joint power and energy product opportunity study sponsored by PELS, Industry
Applications Society and Power Engineering Society produced results which Patterson
said were “not encouraging.” (Attachment 2) According to the study findings, key
coverage was centered in power engineering, industry applications, electrical safety and
control systems. Patterson said he would not feel confident recommending continuation
of the project without substantial modification. Further discussions were planned at TAB
in Nashville later in the week.
Patterson said a move to establish an IEEE society on product safety is scheduled to
come before TAB at its meeting next week in Nashville, Tennessee. He said he
planned to vote against the proposal because, he said, such a society would overlap
fields of interest with others.
A letter of agreement and “sister society” arrangement between PELS and SOMEP- the
Sociedad Mexicana de Electronica de Potencia - was introduced by Patterson and
Jaime Arau who in addition to his PELS ties is president of the Mexican society. The
agreement noted the similar interests and activities of two societies. One clause of the
letter would allow members of one group to register at the member rate at a conference
sponsored by the other society (Attachment 3). Also encouraged would be the
exchange of distinguished lecturers. Habetler moved MOTION: approval of the
agreement, Krein seconded and the agreement was accepted. Later in the week,
Patterson and Arau signed the agreement at a ceremony during the evening banquet at
PESC. ACTION: Myers will advise all PELS-sponsored conferences of the
agreement and the acceptance of SOMEP members at member-rate registrants.
Patterson said PELS has been asked to become a technical-sponsor of a journal
sponsored by the Systems and Cybernetics Society. After brief discussion, Habetler
moved MOTION: that the Society decline the invitation. Krein seconded and the
motion passed.
Division II Director – Krein said financial matters continue to dominate IEEE concerns
and said the Institute‟s financial position has been impacted by 1. A general economic
downturn, 2. A major negative hit on conferences (including some emphasis on SARS)
with attendance and income down and many conferences reporting deficits, and 3. A
shift to electronic publications. The shift has happened earlier than anticipated, he said.
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Print subscriptions are dropping and electronic products, while growing, are not as yet
offsetting the falloff in print. A major concern, he said, is what will happen when the
print market goes away. He said societies which relay too heavily on publication sales in
setting their budgets will be hit hard.
In general, efforts at IEEE are aimed at strengthening cooperation between volunteerism
and governance. While basically at the “brainstorming” stage, there is movement toward
positive results across IEEE, Krein said, adding that PELS is approaching problems in
changing circumstances in a positive manner.
He suggested PELS consider offering Society members electronic access to all PELS
conference proceedings and proposed that the first two years of journals (1986 and
1987) be converted to electronic format to give the Society a full complement of
electronic journals.
Operations – Harley said he has embarked on a project to coordinate technical
committee activities and strengthen their respective roles across the Society.
Meetings – Bob Myers, reporting for Dong Tan, requested seed money of $5,000 for
CIEP‟04 in Mexico, noting PELS will become a full sponsor of the conference for the first
time – in the past it has been a technical sponsor only. Habetler MOTION: moved the
advance loan be granted, Ger Hurley seconded and approval was unanimous.
Myers introduced a request from the Institute of Electrical Engineers in the United
Kingdom that PELS become a technical co-sponsor of the 2004 IEE Second
International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives. Patterson
MOTION: moved approval of co-sponsorship, Harley seconded and the motion was
approved
PESC 04 will have the Conference of Integrated Power Electronics Systems (CIPS) as a
technical co-sponsor along with several other European organizations.. DeDoncker
encouraged an ongoing relationship with CIPS for the benefit of both PELS and CIPS
and he suggested CIPS be involved every four years when PESC is in Europe.
DeDoncker said he will schedule a meeting at PESC‟04 in Aachen, Germany between
leaders of PELS and CIPS.
PESC 05 will take place 11-13 June 2005, several weeks after the International
Electronic Machines and Drives Conference (co-sponsored by PELS) but distant enough
not to be a conflict. Chair Edison Da Silva said he would have a budget for the fall
Meetings Committee in Salt Lake City and would make an initial seed funding request of
$10,000.
PESC 03 – Jaime Arau reported registrations prior to the official start of the conference
had reached 350 with tutorial registrations at 55, He estimated a conference surplus of
$15,000
APEC‟04 – Jason Lai said the deadline for submission of abstracts is the end of June. A
budget will be prepared about the same time, he said. Patterson noted that no budget
exists for APEC‟04, although the conference is eight months away. Because PELS is
the primary sponsor for APEC finances, Patterson asked that budgets be submitted at
least one year in advance. Grahame Holmes MOTION: moved that the Meetings
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Committee specify that the APEC Steering Committee submit a budget for future
conferences at least one year in advance, preferably for consideration at the
winter AdCom meeting held in conjunction with the previous year’s APEC.
DeDoncker seconded and the motion was approved by unanimous vote. ACTION: The
AdCom, by consent, directed that the APEC Steering Committee be advised to
submit budgets to the PELS Meetings Committee at least one year in advance.
ACTION: Organizers of PESC’04 and PESC’05 will provide budgets to Myers and
he will coordinate filing of all necessary conference forms.
ACTION: The APEC Steering Committee will provide a budget for APEC’04 as
soon as possible to Patterson, Tan , Steve Leeb and Myers. Further, Harley
MOTION: moved that the budgets for all PELS-sponsored and technically
sponsored conferences, as appropriate, be channeled through the PELS
Executive Office to make sure they are in order and complete. Habetler seconded
and the motion was approved.
Myers reported the APEC‟01 And APEC‟02 have not closed and the IEEE sponsors
(PELS and IAS) are being charged penalties for late closings. A report cited by Myers
said the 01 audit was scheduled to be filed in mid-June with the 02 report before July 4.
John Chen, in an e-mail to Myers, said the Workshop on Automotive Power Electronics
held in the Detroit area last December had income of $15,008.30 and expenses of
$8,160.32 and a surplus of $$6,847.98 with PELS receiving half (or $3,423.99) .
Treasurer’s Report - Myers read an e-mail from Steve Leeb summarizing his Society
finance activities:
„First pass budget for 2004 has been submitted and projects a surplus of $1,100
(US) surplus. “That‟s dollars, not K dollars i.e., one thousand dollars. 2004 will be tight.
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“IEEE is wiggling because member subscriptions are down in 2003 by 4.84
percent compared to 2002. Perhaps a $1,000 impact on the budget (small).
“Nonmember subscriptions are very down, from 366 to 282 subscriptions,
removing about $37,000 from our 2003 budget. Much more serious! Also, the
projection for 2004 is worse (unknown but expected to be lower).
“So the projected surplus of $1,100 for 2004, and our projected surplus for this
year, are both in serious doubt. We are not the worse off society by any means (our
4.84 percentage member change compares with 15 percent down for another society,
for example). But the $$ situation is not strong.
“Bottom line is that we need to make strong cost avoidance measures this year
and next just to break even.”
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Referring to the meetings segment of the agenda, Krein recommended that the PESC
Steering Committee meeting be held prior to the summer AdCom meeting – or at least
complete work on future budgets – so these budgets can be approved by the AdCom.
Publications – Alex Stankovic introduced the publications reports.
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Newsletter – Gene Wester said the newsletter is expanding its technical content and
accepting advertising. The new issue is larger with more to come - a color cover,
increased advertising and an expanded number of technical papers. Wester said the
Newsletter is available through the webpage and via mail. A broad range of short,
technical articles is the objective, he said. Suggestions on content from AdCom
members ranged from developing “straight-forward and direct but not simplistic” papers
to a continuity of articles spread over several issues.
Transactions – Daan van Wyk said of the 172 papers he received from former Editor
Arthur Kelley. 75 are in process, 70 have been accepted for publication and 27 have
been rejected (Attachment 4). Since he took over as editor in October, 2009, van Wyk
said 249 papers have been received with 138 in process, 31 accepted and 75 rejected.
Forty-one associate editors are in place for the Transactions, with Van Wyk having
appointed 30 since taking over as editor. Certificates of appreciation and a token gift will
be presented to outgoing AEs as part of the awards luncheon at PESC and appointed
and reappointed AEs will receive certificates.
The 2003 page budget is 1,400 and van Wyk suggested a higher number – up to 1,700
– for 2004, to reflect cleanup of backlog. At present, he said, there are 280 papers in the
publishing queue. Harley said the increase in page count resulted from the AdCom
decision to publish one special issue each year. Krein reported that TAB is discussing a
new approach to page counts with five percent over free of any penalty. He suggested
an increase be applied over several years to eliminate any backlog Krein moved
MOTION: that the Transactions page count for 2004 be set at 1,700. Habetler
seconded and the motion was approved. Unanimously.
Electronic media (webpage) – Holmes said website management has been transferred
fully from the University of Illinois with Associate Webmaster Pat McGoldrick handling
day-to-day matters with support from Holmes (Attachment 5). While the web still is
housed at Illinois, discussions are under way with IEEE to move the page to Piscataway
– the unresolved issue, Holmes said, is the necessary number of megabytes PELS feels
it needs versus a standard leveloffered by IEEE.
The next stage of website revision is to introduce new features to make the site a
broader forum for expanded Society activities and events, as well as to establish a
private page for access by AdCom members to contain minutes and other pertinent
material. In addition, member -only files would be established to house conference
material, tutorial notes and the like with archive-like protection. Krein proposed
consideration of a password-protected, formal Society membership file, conference
material and similar items. ACTION: Holmes will develop a formal plan for
presentation at the fall AdCom meeting.
Letters – The first letters are on a preprint Xplore file at IEEE, Krein reported, adding that
six associate editors are in place and handling copy exclusively by electronic means
(Attachment 6). The system currently is a backup process in anticipation of completion
of the web system through Webstracts, he said. At present,. 29 papers have been
submitted, six have been accepted, eight more are in process and 15 have been
rejected. Krein said the average time from submission to a decision is 8.4 weeks,
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including papers submitted last December. Since January, the average time has
declined to just under seven weeks.
The first official issue will be “published” when eight papers have been accepted and
processed. Costs are in line with budget, Krein said, and the page budget of 140 will
remain through 2003 and again in
IEEE Press – No report.
Energy Challenge – Krein and Jason Lai reported the 2003 Future Energy Challenge
competition centered on two topics – 1. inverter systems and 2. variable speed motor
drives – but said no team in either competition met all standards and the judges decided
not to award major prizes. The sum of $25,000 is set aside for secondary prizes and will
be awarded, Krein and Lai said. The prizes to be awarded will be announced later in the
summer with prize presentations at the Myron Zucker luncheon at the Industry
Applications Society Annual Meeting. (Attachment 7 includes reports on judging results
from the Future Energy Challenge review committee).
For the planned 2005 competition, Lai said efforts will be made to tighten submission
process to allow a school to participate in one category only – in 2003, the Department
of Energy was the driver behind the inverter program, IEEE behind the motor drives.
The next competition will seek broad industry support for the program to encourage
greater school participation worldwide and to generate attention in the commercial world.
Long Range Planning – Krein sad Long-Range Planning will meet following the AdCom
meeting and, essentially, take up three issues
1. Conference coordination
2. Adapting as the fields pf power electronics applications change
3. Craft activities to appeal to members and others
Education- Leon Tolbert introduced a concept from Marcelo Simoes for a workshop on
power electronics education to be staged in connection with PESC‟05 to be held on the
final day and first following day of the conference (Attachment 8). The workshop
proposal envisions income of $26,800, expenses of $16,500 and a surplus of $10,300.
It also requested an advance loan of $5,000. Discussion centered on the individual
registration fee of $600, considered too high by most members of the AdCom. An
alternate fee of $100 was suggested, with a corresponding reduction in expenses.
Tolbert moved MOTION: approval in principle of the workshop concept subject to
revision of a revenue and spending plan. Holmes seconded and the motion was
adopted.
Awards - Chris Riddleberger thanked the PELS Education Committee for its support of
the INTELEC Fellowship which allowed the 2002 recipient to “receive his degree and get
a job.” He said with one exception, major PELS awards will be presented at the PESC
Awards Luncheon during the week; the exception was the Richard Bass Outstanding
Young Power Engineer Award which was conferred during the International Electric
Machines and Drives Conference in Wisconsin two weeks earlier.
Membership – Enrico Santi reported IEEE has distributed a survey of selected PELS
members and, less than two weeks into the program has collected 250 responses. The
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web-based survey should provide excellent guidance for future planning, he said.,
particularly in light of declining membership numbers across the spectrum of IEEE.
The review of Technical Interest Profile categories is in progress with Santi projecting
there will be some substantial and some subtle changes in the TIP program. He added
that he is working up update the PELS membership brochure to reflect changes in
activities and procedures.
Chapters Development – Vassilios Agelidis said he has contacted existing PELS
chapter chairmen worldwide to complete current lists of chapter officers. He said he is in
the process of organizing new chapters in Solvenia, New Zealand, Western Australia,
Athens and Portugal. Agelidis said he expects to have charters from all these, and
perhaps others, by the fall meeting of the AdCom.
Constitution/Bylaws – Ron Hui moved MOTION: that the PELS Constitution be
amended to establish the position of President-Elect, terms of office and to
authorize Society-wide election of AdCom members. The motion, from committee,
was approved unanimously.
Hui moved MOTION: that amendments be made to the PELS Bylaws dealing with
selection of a President-Elect, changing the time of the annual meeting from the
fall to the PESC meeting, expanding the terms of the Society President and Vice
Presidents from one to two years,adding voting procedures for Society-wide
election, duties of a President-Elect, renaming of the title of Administrator as
Executive Director and implementing several numbering and sequence
adjustments to accommodate changes. The motion was approved.
A Bylaws change specifying the makeup of the PELS Publications Board (Attachment 9)
and introduced at the winter meeting of the AdCom, was placed before the body and
Krein moved MOTION: approval of the amendment. Habetler seconded and the new
definition was adopted.
All changes will be submitted to TAB for approval and later to the Society membership
for comment. An effort will be made to have new procedures in place for the 2004
election.
Technical Committee on DC Power Supply Systems – Jose Cobos said he is
developing a committee membership and planning activities.
Technical Committee on Rectifiers and Inverters – Fang Peng said his committee will
host a special issue of the Transactions in 2004 and he will serve as guest editor. He
said he is working with Harley in helping committees determine best practices and to
direct technical committees to key areas of interest.
Technical Committee on Motor Drives – No report.
Technical Committee on Power Packaging - No report.
Electronic Transformers Technical Committee – The committee has scheduled it s
next meeting during the Coil Winding Show in Indianapolis in September, Myers
reported.
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Technical Committee on Simulation, Modeling and Control – Antonello Monti said
the 2004 workshop will be held in Urbana, Illinois, with Phil Krein as chair and Pat
Chapman as technical program chair (Attachment 10). A major effort in 2004 will be the
development of a database of expertise to support the Society‟s paper review process.
The 2006 presentation of this biennial workshop will take place in Salerno, Italy.
Telecommunications Energy Systems – Riddleberger reported preliminary financial
results from INTELEC‟02 in Montreal – showing a surplus of $181,124 (Attachment 11).
Revenue totaled $882.038 and expenses amounted to $700,914. Total attendance was
1,339 from 36 countries with 515 full conference registrants.
Standards –Lai said new procedures have been introduced dealing with standards
development and all societies have been urged to adopt the model or equivalent
program (the model program is available from the PELS Office).
ACTION: Myers will request Sue Vogel of the Standards Association office to
provide a list of PELS related standards to Lai and Holmes.
Fellows Evaluation – Habetler traced the procedure for nominating and evaluating
candidates for potential elevation to Fellow grade and the process through the Institute
for final selection (Attachment 12). He said the PELS Fellows Committee this year
evaluated six candidates, compared with 11 last year and 10 two years ago. ACTION:
Myers will provide Habetler a list of PELS Fellow grade members and will get the
same list to Dave Perrault.
Asia liaison – Hiro Agaki reported the PELS Chapter in Tokyo has created a new
award for a young engineer with financial support from the chapter and from IEEJ.
European Liaison - Bruno Allard- reported he has been in contact with a number of
European PELS chapters by Email and has met with six groups in Eastern Europe to
encourage participation in PELS. He said schools and industry are in support of the
effort (Attachment 13).
Region 9 Liaison – No report.
Other Business – None.
Next Meeting – The AdCom will meet Sunday, 12 October at Salt Lake City on the
opening day of the IAS Annual Meeting. The AdCom will be preceded by a Meetings
Committee meeting.
Adjourn – The meeting was adjourned at 2:58 p.m.
Submitted,
Robert Myers
PELS Executive Director
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