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Colorado Power Electronics Center (CoPEC), continued

The center's activities span the range of applications from high-efficiency milliwatt converters for portable battery-operated systems, to hundreds or thousands of watts for computer, aerospace, telecommunications, medical, lighting, and automotive power conversion, to hundreds of kilowatts for wind generation systems.

The objectives of the center are to fill the growing need for power electronics technology in the broad range of electronic industries; and to recruit students into the power electronics field.

The research has been supported by numerous industrial partners such as National Semiconductor, General Electric, Philips, Lucent, and Rockwell; and government agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Coordinators of the center are Dragan Maksimovic, a recent NSF CAREER Award winner, and Robert Erickson, IEEE Fellow. Both are authors of the textbook, "Fundamentals of Power Electronics."

http://ece-www.colorado.edu/~pwrelect