About The Chapter

The crowd settles in before a Chapter lecture meeting on engineering for alternative energy

In these days of declining oil reservers, concerns about the effect burning fossil fuels has on the global climate, and increasing energy prices, power electronics can play an important role in making best of all the sources of energy the world has available to it. From higher energy efficiency hybrid and all-electric vehicles to higher efficiency refrigerators and air conditioners to higher efficiency lighting - none could happen without contribution from power electronics engineers.

To promote power electronics and support power electronics professionals in the Denver section area, the Denver Chapter of the IEEE Power Electronics Society was founded in the fall of 2004. The Chapter been successful and active with regular meetings and special events including hosting a special seminar by Dr. R. D. Middlebrook to a hands-on seminar "Microcontrollers For Power Supply And Other Analog Engineers". The most recent major event sponsored by the Chapter was the IEEE Colorado Symposium on Electronics for Sustainable Energy, held on Saturday, 17 May 2008, in Boulder, Colorado.

We invite you to attend any of out regular meetings and to participate in any of our special events - You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend or participate! We rotate the meetings around the Front Range so you should be able to join us once or twice a year without having to travel too far!

Regular Meetings Are Open To The Public!

We welcome any interested person at our regular meetings - you do NOT have to be a member of the IEEE or Power Electronics Society to come to the meetings! In fact, our meetings are a great place to meet and network with other folks in the power electronics business in the Denver area. You never know what you might learn about good work going on in the Denver area, new information on technology, or even what companies might be looking to hire!

Announcements

Social and Networking Hour/Meet The 2010 Chapter Officers

Monday, 7 December, 5-7:30 pm
CB & Potts 1257 W. 120th Avenue
Westminster, CO 80234

To wrap up a good year for the Denver PELS Chapter we are holding an after work social and networking event. We are providing appetizers and soft drinks. Otherwise there will be a cash bar.

Please stop by to meet your fellow power electronics colleagues, reflect on the year gone by, catch up on who's doing what and where, and share our hopes for a successful and prosperous 2010 for all of us.

We will also be introducing the chapter officers for 2010:

• General Chair: Bob White (I couldn't talk anyone else into taking the job)
• Assistant/Program Chair: Tom Osborne
• Treasurer/Finance Chair: Matt Zolot
• Secretary: Mike Benson

We will also be thanking Bryce Hesterman for several years of service as Assistant/Program Chair and Patrick Stanko for several years of service as Secretary and Finance Chair.

If you can, please let us know you are coming so we can order enough food. If you don't get around to sending an RSVP please come anyway.

CB & Potts is located on the north side of 120th Avenue just west of I-25. Click here for a map.

Next Meeting

Stay tuned for an announcement of our next meeting, tentatively scheduled for the first Tuesday in March, 2010.

Send Your Comments And Feedback To The Chapter

The Contact Web page now has a form through which you can send us your comments and feedback about the chapter. Anything is fair game including:

• Topics you would like to see presented at a meeting
• A particular speaker you would like to see
• A new location for a meeting
• "I'm tired of pizza!"
• A topic for an extended seminar like the microcontroller seminar held in April 2007

Please feel free to let us know what is on your mind or how we can serve you better.

Presentations From Previous Meetings Now Available

Some (but not all) speakers have granted the Chapter permission to publish their presentations on the Chapter Web site. See the Presentations And Downloads page for the available presentations. All presentations are in Adobe Acrobat format.

Announcements last updated: 29 November 2009