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Latest News 2007 IFEC Awards Annouced! The 2007 fnal competiton have been concluded. Congratulations to the following winners. Topic A · Outstanding Performance Award (for $7,000) – Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil · Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award (for $5,000) – Monash University, Australia · PSMA Outstanding Innovation Award (for $5,000) – Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China · Outstanding Undergraduate Educational Impact Award (for $2,500) – Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh · Outstanding Teamwork Award (for $2,500) – University of Texas at Arlington, USA · Outstanding Technical Presentation Award (for $2,500) – Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives of the RWTH Aachen, Germany, and Institute for Automation of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne (FH Köln), Germany · Outstanding Technical Report Award (for $2,500) – Virginia Tech, USA Topic B · Outstanding Educational Impact and Undergraduate Teamwork Award (for $8,000) – University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi, India · Performance Achievement Award (for $5,000) – University of Padova, Italy · Innovation Award (for $3,000) – University of Padova, Italy · Outstanding Presentation/Report Award (for $3,000) – University of South Carolina, USA, and University of Nebraska, USA The 2007 IFEC Awards Recognition is planned for the 2008 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC’08), February 24-28, 2008, in Austin, Texas, USA (http://www.apec-conf.org/). Formal award presentations are scheduled at the banquet of APEC’08. Award winners are invited to attend the banquet to accept their certificates. Please note that there will be no travel support from the 2007 International Future Energy Challenge. Tuesday, 8 August 2007 On behalf of Professor Stephanie Fahey, the Office of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (international) is happy to support the Monash FEC team. Professor Fahey is happy to sponsor $5,000 towards travel expenses incurred by the team. Friday, 22 June 2007 Monash University Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins, is happy to support the Monash FEC team by sponsoring $5,000 towards travel expenses incurred by the team. Wednesday, 16 May 2007 Monash University Future Energy Challenge Team has succesfully made it through to the final stage of the competition. We congratuate all finalist and semi-finalist of Topic A of the 2007 International Future Energy challenge. Finalists: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Monash University, Australia University of Texas at Arlington, USA Semi-Finalists: Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives of the RWTH Aachen, Germany, and Institute for Automation of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne (FH Köln), Germany Seoul National University of Technology, Korea University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka We will be preparing our hardware and be ready for final test events in Dallas, Texas, the week of August 20, 2007. Friday, 9 February 2007 Pat, Managing Director of Creative Power Technologies has once again expressed their interest in sponsoring the Monash Team. Creative Power Technologies has over 30 years combined experience in the development of novel, leading edge designs to meet its clients. We are looking forward to their technical assistance and guidance. Thursday, 8 February 2007 Craig Gliddon, Electronics Engineering Manager from Varian has notified the team of a $1000 donated from Varian. It is great to have Varian back sponsoring us! Tuesday, 6 February 2007 Texas Instruments have jumped aboard the sponsorship wagon and will happily supply for free DSP microprocessors, lab test sets and other necessary components and items. Thursday, 1 February 2007 Sponsorship co-ordinators Andrew and Nik secures sponsorship deal with Dyne & Magcore Managing Director Frank Smit. Our proud sponsor Dyne & Magcore will handle all transformer related conponents for the Monash 2007 Future Energy Challenge Team. Click here for sponsorship pictures. Thursday, 25 January 2007 Sponsorship co-ordinators Andrew and Reza visit PCBFast and secures sponsorship deal with Managing Director Kevin Sullivan. PCBFast becomes a proud sponsorship of the Monash 2007 Future Energy Challenge Team. Friday, 15 December 2006 Stuart Magee, Product Manager of Fastron Technologies Pty Ltd comes in to see Professor G. Holmes and Andrew Sun (Co-leader/Sponsorship Co-ordinator). Fastron becomes a proud sponsorship of the Monash 2007 Future Energy Challenge Team. Thursday, 23 November 2006 Monash University Future Energy Challenge Team invited to attend the 2007 APEC workshop held on Sunday the 25th Feburary in Anaheim, California, USA. The representives of the team attending the workshop will give a brief overview of the team and the technical progress. For more information, view the invitation letter here Monday, 11 October 2006 Monash University have been accepted to participate in the 2007 International Future Energy Challenge - Topic A (Universal Adapting Battery Charger). For a list of other participates: Informed of acceptance |
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