Student project demonstrations on emerging technology award program.
The Power Electronics Society (PELS) is excited to announce that the winners of the PELS Technical Committee 6/Technical Committee 10 student demo project at ECCE 2025 in Philadelphia will be the first recipients of the IEEE PELS Drs. Muhammad Harunur Rashid and Fatema Rashid Student Program Fund. The Program Fund will facilitate career opportunities between students and potential employers and enhance professional growth and interest in power electronics engineering.
Since 2011, ECCE has organized the hardware demo event for students to showcase their research outcomes and interact with academia and industry. Starting 2013, IEEE PELS TC6 has sponsored this hardware demo event at ECCE as the student project demonstrations on emerging technology award program. Three prizes are awarded at ECCE to the best student project demonstrations. Starting in 2025 the prizes amounts will be extended and sponsored by the IEEE PELS Drs. Muhammad Harunur and Fatema Rashid Student Program.
Topics of Interest
- Energy harvesting
- 3D power electronics integration
- Wireless power transfer
- High temperature power electronics
- Ultra-efficient and high-power-density converters and inverters
- Emerging power devices (e.g., SiC, GaN) and their applications
- Emerging solutions for passive component used in power electronics
- High reliability power electronic components and converters
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Design automation and simulation tools
- Digital twin and cyber-physical security of power electronics
- Other emerging power electronic applications and related technologies
Submission Guidelines and Award Details
To participate in the student project demonstrations on emerging technology award program, submit the online form by August 15, 2025. If you have difficulty accessing this form, please email (TC6 Emerging Technology Track (hardware)) contact: mariumrasheed@ieee.org or TC10 contact: wilmar.martinez@kuleuven.be (TC10 Design Methodology Track (software)) with your name, school, and faculty advisor’s name & email.
Single student project teams will be given preference, but teams with up to three students are allowed. For teams with multiple students, only one student needs to fill the application form. Topics of interest include all emerging areas of power electronics and related technologies. A non-exhaustive list of topic areas of interest is given below. Project teams selected for participation will be notified by August 29, 2025. All members of the selected project teams must register for ECCE in order to participate in the demonstration event.
TC6 Student Team Travel Grants (Emerging Technology Track Only)
Travel grants of $500 will be allocated for some of participating project teams. Team members must submit travel related receipts and the travel grant will be disbursed against actual expenses up to the team’s allocated amount. Team members and project advisors will be invited to a sponsored dinner during ECCE.
For the demonstration, each team will be provided (free of cost) roughly 5-feet by 10-feet space in the ECCE exhibition hall. It is recommended that teams demonstrate hardware prototypes, and utilize posters, slides and/or videos (recorded at their home institution) to explain their demo to the audience and the judges. A power outlet will be available to each team to run a computer. However, the demonstrated hardware and experiments cannot be run in the exhibition hall due to safety concerns. Any participant who violates this rule will be disqualified.
Each project demonstration will be evaluated by a judging panel comprising members from the industry and the academia. The panel members will select the top project demonstrations based on originality/creativity, engineering design, value to practical applications, presentation, and audience appeal. The top three student project teams will be recognized as follows:
- 1st Place (a certificate and a cash prize)
- 2nd Place (a certificate and a cash prize)
- 3rd Place (a certificate and a cash prize)
The top student project team participating in the Student Design Methodology Competition track will be recognized with the:
- Best Student Design Methodology Project (a certificate and a cash prize)
Videos of the winning project demonstration may be posted on the IEEE PELS TC6 or TC10 websites.
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