Welcome to ePOWER
The Queen’s Centre for Energy and Power Electronics Research (ePOWER) fosters collaboration among academic and industrial researchers to advance fundamental energy and power electronics research, to develop a broad range of commercially competitive and environmentally friendly technologies, and to train the next generation of innovators.
ePOWER has the following goals:
- To establish Queen’s University as a world leader in fundamental and applied energy and power electronics research.
- To foster academic and industrial collaboration on energy and power electronics research with a focus on commercialization.
- To train highly-educated individuals by providing advanced energy and power electronics research opportunities in state-of-the-art facilities.
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SPOTLIGHT
ePOWER Director Praveen Jain receives the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award on 22 September in Phoenix, AZ |
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>Updates....Majid Pahlevaninezhad successfully defended his PhD thesis in Jan 2012 and will be staying on at ePOWER as a Postdoctoral Fellow...ePOWER Director Praveen Jain has been awarded the William E. Newell Power Electronics Award by IEEE on September 22 at the ECCE 2011 Conference in Phoenix, AZ....4th year undergrad students Matthew Mascioli, Christopher Fiorentino and Nabil Akel were awarded the First Place Prize for their final year design project Green Energy: 250W Grid-Connected Micro-Inverter for Photovoltaic Modules at the IEEE Toronto Conference for Upcoming Engineers Design Competition held May 5 at Ryerson University. The team went on to receive an honourable mention at the Rochester Institute of Technology IEEE Student Design Competition....ePOWER spin-off company SPARQ Systems received North American certification for its innovative solar microinverter system....
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ePOWER thanks Faisal Khan of the University of Utah for his seminar at Queen's on Wed Oct 19 on AC Solar Cells: A New Breed of PV Power Generation. Click for more info.
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