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Next Meetings

Fall 2008 in North America
Spring 2009 in Europe

Exact Dates and Locations to be Announced

What Else is New?

Date

Item

2008-7-02

Shanghai - June 2009 - Meeting Documents
(streaming audio to be available soon)

2007-12-11

Consortium Meetings Index Document - Update of December 11, 2007

2007-10-05

Paris 2007 - Meeting Documents

2007-05-25

Seattle Meeting Documents  Final Versions, Including streaming audio

2006-11-17

Tokyo Meeting Documents - Final Versions

2006-07-26

Paris Meeting Documents - Final Versions, including streaming audio

2006-05-19

Applications of Power Electronics in Automotive Power Generation, Perreault. D.J., et al., SIA International Conference on Automotive Power Electronics, June 21-22, 2006.

2006-02-21

The Ultra Battery, MIT Technology Review, February 13, 2006

2006-02-21

Researchers Fired Up Over New Battery, MIT TechTalk, Vol. 50, No. 16, February 8, 2006

2006-01-19

Research Unit 14 - Battery Modeling: Testing and Modeling of Energy Storage Devices
Final Report Summary
Final Report and User's Guide
Simulink Battery Model Files

2006-01-13

Project Report - Research Unit 2d - Electronically Aided Power Generation and Control: Enhanced Next-Generation Alternator, Lorilla, L.M., LEES Technical Report TR-05-005, September 28, 2005.

2006-01-13

Project Report - Research Unit 2e - Automotive Accessory Motor Drives Using New Magnetic Material: Analysis of Surface Permanent Magnet Machines with Fractional-Slot Concentrated Windings, Ayman M. EL-Refaie, Thomas M. Jahns and Donald W. Novotny, June 20, 2005.

2006-01-13

Project Report - Research Unit 2e - Automotive Accessory Motor Drives Using New Magnetic Material: Comparison of Synchronous PM Machines Types for Wide Constant-Power Speed Range Operation, Ayman M. EL-Refaie and Thomas M. Jahns, June 20, 2005.

2006-01-13

Project Report - Research Unit 9.1 - EMI/EMC in 42V PowerNet Electrical Systems: Hand-Assembled Cable Harness Modeling Based on the RDSI Algorithm and Experimental Validation, Shishuang Sun, et al., August 12, 2005.

2006-01-13

Final Report - Research Unit 12 - Advanced Automotive Power Electronics: Resistance Compression Networks for Resonant Power Conversion, Yehui Han, Olivia Leitermann, David A. Jackson, Juan M. Rivas, and David J. Perreault, 28 September 2005.

2006-01-13

Final Report - Research Unit 12 - Advanced Automotive Power Electronics: Design and Characterization of a Radio-Frequency dc/dc Power Converter, Jackson, D.A.,  LEES Technical Report TR-05-003, 5 August 2005.

2006-01-13

Project Report - Research Unit 13 - Automotive Applications of Ultra-Capacitors: Nanotube Enhanced Ultracapacitors, Riccardo Signorelli,et al., 7 October 2005.

2006-01-13

Project Report - Research Unit 16 - Reliability in X-by-Wire Systems: Overview of a Methodology for the Design of X-by-Wire Systems, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, et al., September 27, 2005.

2006-01-13

Project Report - Research Unit 17 - Surface Corrosion and Tracking: Physical Modeling of Electrical Conduction in Printed Circuit Board Insulation, LEES Technical Report TR-05-004, 12 September 2005.

2006-01-12

Cambridge Meeting Documents - Final Versions, including streaming audio

2005-06-07

Seoul Meeting Documents - Final Versions

2005-03-29

Project Report - Research Unit 11 - Non-Conventional Electricity Sources for Motor Vehicles: Part 1) Optical Characteristics of One-Dimensional Si/SiO2 Photonic Crystals for Thermophotovoltaic Applications; 2) Resonant-Cavity Enhanced Thermal Emission; and 3) Appendix A: Selective Emitter Fabrication, Natalija Jovanovic, et al., 29 March 2005

2005-03-28

Project Report - Research Unit 16 - Reliability in X-by-Wire Systems: A Methodology to Analyze the Reliability of Automotive Safety-Related Systems, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, et al., March 28, 2005.

2005-03-28

Project Report - Research Unit 2e - Automotive Accessory Motor Drives Using New Magnetic Material: Scalability of Surface PM Machines with Concentrated Windings Designed to Achieve Wide Speed Ranges of Constant Power Operation, Ayman M. EL-Refaie and Thomas M. Jahns, March 28, 2005.

2005-02-02

Final Report - Research Unit 7a.1 - Dual Voltage System Protection and Fusing: Fusing Strategies for the Dual-Voltage Fault, Rupam Shrivastava,  LEES Technical Report TR-05-002, 2 February 2005

2005-02-01

Final Report - Research Unit 7b.1 - Detection and Mitigation of Arcs in Automotive Electrical Systems: Detection of Arcs in Automotive Electrical Systems, Matthew D. Mishrikey, LEES Technical Report TR-05-001, 1 February 2005

2005-01-27

Barcelona Meeting Documents - Final Versions with Audio Streaming

2005-01-21

Project Report - Research Unit 2e - Automotive Accessory Motor Drives Using New Magnetic Material: Optimal Flux Weakening in Surface PM Machines Using Concentrated Windings, Ayman M. EL-Refaie and Thomas M. Jahns, January 21, 2005.

2005-01-11

Super Charged:  A Tiny South Korean Company Is Out to Make Capacitors Powerful Enough to Propel the Next Generation of Hybrid-Electric CarsIEEE Spectrum, January 2005

2004-11-03

Project Report - Research Unit 13 - Automotive Applications of Ultra-Capacitors: Innovative Ultracapacitor Design for Energy Storage in Automotive Applications, Signorelli, Schindall and Kassakian, November 3, 2004.

2004-11-02

Project Report - Research Unit 2d - Electronically Aided Power Generation and Control: Alternator Field Circuit Design for Increased Field Ampere Turns, Lorilla, Keim, Lang, and Perreault, 2 November 2004

2004-10-29

Final Report - Research Unit 12 - Advanced Automotive Power Electronics: Radio Frequency Rectifiers for DC-DC Power Conversion, Wahby, Riad,  29 October 2004

2004-10-29

Project Report - Research Unit 12 - Advanced Automotive Power Electronics: New Architectures for Radio-Frequency dc/dc Power Conversion, Rivas, et al., 29 October 2004

2004-10-25

Project Report - Research Unit 11 - Non-Conventional Electricity Sources for Motor Vehicles: 1D and 2D Photonic Crystals for Thermophotovoltaic Applicatiions, Jovanovic, et al., 25 October 2004

2004-10-19

Project Report - Research Unit 7a.1 - Dual-Voltage System Protection and Fusing: Developing Fusing Strategies for the 42V - 14V Fault in the Dual-Voltage System, Shrivastava and Keim, 19 October 2004.

2004-10-13

Project Report - Research Unit 9 - EMI/EMC in 42V PowerNet Electrical Systems: A Dual-Step MTL/FDTD Procedure for Anticipating System-Level EMI and Cable Harness Modeling for Non-Ideal Cable Bundles, Liu, Sun, Drewniak, and Pommerenke , 10 September 2004.

2004-10-12

Related Meeting Announcement - IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics in Transportation, October 21-22, 2004, Novi, Michigan

2004-09-29

Project Report - Research Unit 16 - Reliability in X-by-Wire Systems:  Reliability Evaluation of the Power Supply of an Electrical PowerNet for Safety-Relevant Applications, Dominguez-Garcia, Kassakian, and Schindall, September 29, 2004

2004-09-28

Project Report - Research Unit 17 - Surface Corrosion and Tracking, Sarathy, Cooke, and Keim, September 28, 2004

2004-09-27

Final Report - Research Unit 10: Cost Estimation and Valuation of Vehicle Electrical Systems - Effect of Automotive Electrical System Changes on Fuel Consumption Using an Incremental Efficiency Methodology, Christopher W. Hardin, LEES Technical Report TR-04-003, 27 September 2004

2004-09-14

Final Report - Research Unit 11: Non-Conventional Electricity Sources for Automobiles - Fabrication and Testing of an Infrared Spectral Control Component for Thermophotovoltaic Power Conversion Applications, Francis M. O'Sullivan, LEES Technical Report TR-04-002, 14 September 2004

2004-06-01

Project Report - Research Unit 7b.1 - Emission Detection Method of Arcs in Automotive Systems, Matthew Mishrikey, Revision of 1 June 2004

2004-05-07

San Diego Meeting Documents - Final Versions

2004-04-09

Project Report - Research Unit 14 - Battery Modeling: A Literature Survey, Sarathy and Keim, 9 April 2004.

2004-04-07

Project Report - Research Unit 13 - Automotive Applications of Ultra-Capacitors: Use of Carbon Nanotubes to Improve Double Layer Capacitors for Automotive Applications, Signorelli, Schindall and Kassakian, April 7, 2004 (minor revision of report posted on March 30th.)

2004-04-05

Project Report - Research Unit 9 - EMI/EMC in 42V PowerNet Electrical Systems: Anticipating System-Level EMI Using Module-Level Measurement and System-Level Numerical Modeling, Liu, Drewniak, Pommerenke and Sun, 15 December 2003.

2004-04-02

Project Report - Research Unit 10.1 - Cost Estimate and Valuation of Vehicle Electrical Systems: Effect of Automotive Electrical System Change on Fuel Consumption by Incremental Efficiency Methodology, Hardin, DesGroseilliers, Keim, Field and Roth, 2 April 2004

2004-03-30

Project Report - Research Unit 7a.1 - Dual-Voltage System Protection and Fusing: Developing Fusing Strategies for the 42V - 14V Fault in the Dual-Voltage System, Shrivastava and Keim, 30 March 2004

2004-03-30

Project Report - Research Unit 2d - Electronically Aided Power Generation and Control: Enhanced Next Generation Alternator, Lorilla, Keim, Lang, and Perreault, 30 March 2004

2004-03-24

Project Report - Research Unit 16 - A Backup System for Automotive Steer-by-Wire Actuated by Selective Braking, Dominguez-Garcia, Kassakian, and Schindall, 24 March 2004

2004-03-09

Project Report - Research Unit 11 - Non-Conventional Electricity Sources for Motor Vehicles, O'Sullivan, Jovanovic, Celanovic, Kassakian, Keim and Perreault, 9 March 2004

2004-02-02

Final Report - Research Unit 13 - Double Layer Capacitors: Automotive Applications and Modeling, David Allen New, LEES Technical Report TR-04-001, February 2, 2004

2004-01-07

ISO/TC22/SC3/WG14-N103 - current standard of ISO 21848

2004-01-06

Tokyo Meeting Documents - Final Version with Audio Streaming

2003-11-05

Tokyo Meeting Documents - Final Versions

2003-10-02

With a Motorized Hub, the Wheel on the Bus Goes 'RoundNew York Times, October 2, 2003

2003-09-23

Project Report - Research Unit 10.1 - Cost Estimation and Valuation of Vehicle Electrical Systems, Hardin, DesGroseilliers, Keim, Field and Roth, 23 September 2003

2003-09-15

Project Report - Research Unit 9 - EMI/EMC in 42V PowerNet Electrical Systems: Anticipating Vehicle-Level EMI Using a Multi-Step Methodology - A Single-Wire Common-Mode Circuit Extraction Approach, and a Novel FDTD Multi-Wire Sub-Cell Algorithm, Liu, Pommerenke and Drewniak, 15 September 2003.

2003-08-29

Project Report - Research Unit 2e - Automotive Accessory Motor Drives Using New Magnetic Material: Application of Bi-State Magnetic Material to Automotive Offset-Coupled IPM Starter/Alternator Machine, EL-Refaie and Jahns, 29 August 2003.

2003-08-29

Project Report - Research Unit 11 - Non-Conventional Electricity Sources for Motor Vehicles: Investigation of Spatial Filters for Thermophotovoltaic Generators, O'Sullivan, Jovanovic, Celanovic, Kassakian, Keim and Perreault, 29 August 2003

2003-08-28

The Impact of the Higher Voltage Automotive Power Systems: Higher Voltage Automotive Power Systems - Day Seminar, University of Bath, UK, on 30 October 2003, and TRW Conekt, Birmingham, UK, on 27 November 2003.

2003-08-21

Project Report - Research Unit 2d - Electronically Aided Power Generation and Control: Design Principle of Interleaved Switched Mode Rectifier for Lundell Alternator, Tang, Perreault and Keim, 21 August 2003

2003-08-21

Project Report - Research Unit 2d - Electronically Aided Power Generation and Control: Topologies for Future Automotive Generators, Lorilla, Keim, Lang, and Perreault, 21 August 2003

2003-08-15

MIT Consortium Idea MeetingOctober 27, 2003, Hotel Nikko Tokyo

2003-08-13

Research Unit 7b.1 teleconference on July 10, 2003 - Documents:
Detection and Mitigation of Arcs in Automotive Electrical Systems
Teleconference Announcement/Dial-in Information
Research Unit 7b.1

2003-07-31

START/STOP: Visteon Ready With SpeedStart12 Automotive Newswire, July 31, 2003

2003-07-09

Automotive EMC Conference Call on July 10, 2003 - Related Documents:
Anticipating Vehicle-Level EMI Using a Multi-Step Procedure
Shielding Evaluation of CFC Enclosure
Teleconference Meeting Announcement
Research Unit 9.1

2003-07-07

Final Report - Research Unit 2d - Electronically-Aided Power Generation and Control:  Output Power Increase at idle Speed n Alternators, Juan Rivas, LEES Technical Report TR-03-003, July 7, 2003

2003-06-05

Automotive EMC Conference Call on June 9, 2003 - Related Documents:
Anticipating Vehicle-Level EMI Using a Multi-Step Procedure
EMC Expert System
Teleconference Meeting Announcement
Research Unit 9.1

2003-05-30

Final Report - Research Unit 7b.1 - Detection of Electric Arcs in 42 Volt Automotive Systems, Joseph Luis, LEES Technical Report TR-03-002, May 21, 2003

2003-04-17

Performance Improvement of Alternators with Switched-Mode Rectifiers, Rivas, et al., Proceedings: IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2003.

2003-04-15

Consortium Related Publication - Research Unit 2e - Application of Bi-State Magnetic Material to an Automotive IPM Starter/Alternator Machine, EL-Refaie, A.M. and Jahns, T.M., 2003 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, Madison, WI USA, 1-4 June 2003.

2003-04-04

Project Report - Research Unit 9 - EMI/EMC in 42V PowerNet Electrical Systems: Anticipating System-Level EMI Using a Multi-Step Prediction Approach - Hybrid MTL/FDTD Approach, Liu and Drewniak, February 2003.  Updated version of report issued in  February 2003

2003-04-03

Final Report - Research Unit 2d - Electronically-Aided Power Generation and Control:  Design of Dual-Output Alternators with Switched-Mode-Rectification, Gimba Hassan, LEES Technical Report TR-03-001, April 3, 2003

2003-04-01

Project Report - Research Unit 13 - Automotive Applications of Ultra-Capacitors, New, Kassakian and Schindall, March 2003

2003-03-28

Project Report - Research Unit 2d - Electronically Aided Power Generation and Control: High-Power Generation, Lorilla, Keim, Lang, and Perreault, 19 March 2003

2003-03-28

Project Report - Research Unit 2d - Electronically Aided Power Generation and Control: Output Power Increase at Idle Speed in Alternators, Rivas, Perreault and Keim, 13 March 2003

2003-03-28

Project Report - Research Unit 7b.1 - Detection and Mitigation of Arcs in Automotive Electrical Systems, Luis, Zahn and Keim, 21 January 2003

2003-03-28

Project Report - Research Unit 10.1 - Cost Estimation and Valuation of Vehicle Electrical Systems, Hardin, DesGroseilliers, Keim, Field and Roth, 27 March 2003

2003-03-28

Project Report - Research Unit 11 - Non-Conventional Electricity Sources for Motor Vehicles: Testing of Advanced Thermophotovoltaic Systems, O'Sullivan, Celanovic, Kassakian, Keim and Perreault, 14 January 2003

2003-03-28

Project Report - Research Unit 12 - Advanced Automotive Power Electronics: Switching Behaviour of Power MOSFETs in Switched-Mode-Rectifier for Lundell Alternator, Tang, Perreault and Keim, 14 March 2003