On October 31st, Dr. Fred C. Lee, Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, member of American Academy of Engineering foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, was invited to delivered an academic report entitled “Challenges for Next Generation of Power Supply”. The report was hosted by Professor XU Dehong, and many teachers and students from the College of Electrical Engineering presented at the report.
Professor Lee introduced the results of the key technologies of Power Electronics System Center (CPES) of Virginia Tech such as the application of wide band gap devices and high-frequency high-density conversion in the past two years and discussed with the teachers and students about the future direction of power electronics technology.
After the report, Professor Lee discussed the future technology and development trend of power electronics with the young teachers of the Institute of Power Electronics Technology. Professor Li put forward constructive suggestions and for the young teachers on their latest researches and encouraged them to obtain higher academic goals.
Introduction of Fred C. Lee
Fred C. Lee received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1968, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1972 and 1974, respectively. He is member of American Academy of Engineering, foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Lee is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Founder and Director Emeritus of CPES, a preeminent academic center in power electronics research at Virginia Tech. As CPES Director, Dr. Lee leads a program that encompasses research, technology development, educational outreach, industry collaboration, and technology transfer. CPES focuses its research to meet industry needs and allows industry to profit from the Center's research and outputs. The CPES program enables its Principal Plus industry members to sponsor graduate fellowships and provides the opportunity to direct research in areas of mutual interest, as well as the ability to access intellectual properties generated collectively by all industry-funded fellowships on a royalty-free and non-exclusive basis. To date, more than 230 companies worldwide have benefited from the industry partnership program. The center has been cited by NSF as a model ERC for its industry collaboration and technology transfer, education, and outreach programs.
Dr. Lee's research interests include high-frequency power conversion, magnetics and EMI, distributed power systems, renewable energy, power quality, high-density electronics packaging and integration, and modeling and control.
Dr. Lee holds 89 U.S. patents, and has published 310 journal articles and 740 refereed technical papers. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Dr. Lee has supervised to completion 87 Ph.D. and 93 Master's students.
