IEEE EPS Seminar: An Energy Savings Journey by Alex Lidow
In-Person & Online
Tuesday,
Oct 25, 2022 at 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM EDT
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Event Details
You are invited by the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Student Chapter at the University of Waterloo to attend a seminar:
Title: An Energy Savings Journey
Speaker: Alex Lidow, CEO and Co-Founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC)
Date: October 25th, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: The speaker will conduct the seminar remotely, but you can register and join the seminar audience in person in EIT 3142 (a pizza lunch will be provided).
Abstract:
Starting with a few words from a professor in 1976 about how energy impacts the global standard of living, I was inspired to find the most efficient ways to use electricity as a career. Milestones along the way include the basic inventions that led to modern silicon power MOSFETs as an R&D engineer, through a career in manufacturing, and eventually leadership of a multinational publicly traded semiconductor company. Finding silicon at its theoretical limits for power conversion at the end of the last millennium, I then started a new path with GaN-on-Si technology by starting Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). The team of engineers and scientists at EPC have developed products that continued the trend towards greater energy efficiency while opening whole new applications that take advantage of GaN’s extraordinary characteristics.
IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS SEMINAR WILL BE RECORDED.
Speakers
Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC)
CEO
Location
Centre for Environmental and Information Technology - Room 3142
200 University Avenue West Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 CA
Instructions will be sent out via email after registration.
Tickets
Type |
Price |
|---|---|
|
IEEE EPS Seminar |
Free |
Organizer Details
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is Waterloo’s largest academic department, with over 2,500 students, 93 full-time faculty members and 50 support staff. In addition to offering undergraduate and graduate programs in electrical engineering and computer engineering, ECE provides academic expertise and support to Waterloo’s multidisciplinary mechatronics, nanotechnology, and software engineering programs.
Our research activities cover a wide range of fields, from high-voltage engineering and sustainable energy to breakthroughs in wireless technology that will enhance communications across our global society. Our faculty members and students are creating low-cost digital x-ray imagers to combat tuberculosis in developing countries, and building real-time embedded systems that will advance the design and reliability of consumer and industrial products.
