BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20221115T161502Z UID:5276CCD2-DD03-43C8-A39D-ED11569683F6 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T130000 DESCRIPTION:12 PM (EST) Tuesday (Oct. 25)\, at EPS - IEEE Electronics Packa ging Society Branch Chapter at the University of Waterloo\, we are honoure d to have Dr. Alexander Lidow\, CEO and co-founder of Efficient Power Conv ersion Corporation (EPC) giving a talk on "An Energy Savings Journey". The webinar will be held on Zoom webinar virtually.\n\nAbstract :\n\nStarting with a few words from a professor in 1976 about how energy impacts the gl obal standard of living\, I was inspired to find the most efficient ways t o use electricity as a career. Milestones along the way include the basic inventions that led to modern silicon power MOSFETs as an R&D engineer\, t hrough a career in manufacturing\, and eventually leadership of a multinat ional publicly-traded semiconductor company. Finding silicon at its theore tical limits for power conversion at the end of the last millennium\, I th en started a new path with GaN-on-Si technology by starting Efficient Powe r Conversion (EPC). The team of engineers and scientists at EPC have devel oped products that continued the trend towards greater energy efficiency w hile opening whole new applications that take advantage of GaN’s extraor dinary characteristics.\n\nBiography :\n\nAlexander Lidow is the CEO and c o-founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC). Prior to foundi ng EPC\, Dr. Lidow was CEO of International Rectifier Corporation. A co-in ventor of the HEXFET power MOSFET\, Dr. Lidow holds many patents in power semiconductor technology and has authored numerous publications on related subjects\, including co-authoring the first textbook on GaN transistors\, GaN Transistors for Efficient Power Conversion\, now in its third edition published by John Wiley and Sons. Lidow earned his Bachelor of Science de gree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Stanford.\n\nCo-sponsored by: IEEE KW Section\n\nSpeaker(s): Alexander Lidow\, \n\nAgenda: \n• We have a drai n of graduate and undergraduate students who get their degree in electroni cs\, but later move to software and computer science jobs. We wanted you t o share how your professional career evolved (your life story) and how you followed your passion as an example in order to motivate students to purs ue their paths in semiconductor and hardware engineering.\no This part can be 20 min.\n\n• Also\, to give them the vision\, it would be very helpf ul if you can provide a perspective on applications for GaN-based electron ics and then narrow it down to the bottlenecks that may need further atten tion and effort by researchers and students.\no This part can be 15 – 20 min.\n\n• We can reserve 5-10 min for questions.\n\nRoom: 3142\, Bldg: EIT\, University of Waterloo\, 200 University Avenue West\, Waterloo\, Ont ario\, Canada\, N2L 3G1\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/324261 LOCATION:Room: 3142\, Bldg: EIT\, University of Waterloo\, 200 University A venue West\, Waterloo\, Ontario\, Canada\, N2L 3G1\, Virtual: https://even ts.vtools.ieee.org/m/324261 ORGANIZER:s535wang@uwaterloo.ca SEQUENCE:8 SUMMARY:An Energy Savings Journey URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/324261 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>12 PM</strong> (EST) <strong>Tuesd ay (Oct. 25)</strong>\, at <strong>EPS - IEEE Electronics Packaging Societ y</strong> Branch Chapter at the <strong>University of Waterloo</strong>\, we are honoured to have <strong>Dr. Alexander Lidow</strong>\, CEO and co -founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) giving a talk on "<strong>An Energy Savings Journey</strong>". The webinar will be held on Zoom webinar virtually.</p>\n<p><strong>Abstract :</strong></p>\n<p>Starti ng with a few words from a professor in 1976 about how energy impacts the global standard of living\, I was inspired to find the most efficient ways to use electricity as a career. Milestones along the way include the basi c inventions that led to modern silicon power MOSFETs as an R&amp\;D engin eer\, through a career in manufacturing\, and eventually leadership of a m ultinational publicly-traded semiconductor company. Finding silicon at its theoretical limits for power conversion at the end of the last millennium \, I then started a new path with GaN-on-Si technology by starting Efficie nt Power Conversion (EPC). The team of engineers and scientists at EPC hav e developed products that continued the trend towards greater energy effic iency while opening whole new applications that take advantage of GaN&rsqu o\;s extraordinary characteristics.</p>\n<p><strong>Biography :</strong></ p>\n<p>Alexander Lidow is the CEO and co-founder of Efficient Power Conver sion Corporation (EPC). Prior to founding EPC\, Dr. Lidow was CEO of Inter national Rectifier Corporation. A co-inventor of the HEXFET power MOSFET\, Dr. Lidow holds many patents in power semiconductor technology and has au thored numerous publications on related subjects\, including co-authoring the first textbook on GaN transistors\, GaN Transistors for Efficient Powe r Conversion\, now in its third edition published by John Wiley and Sons. Lidow earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. fro m Stanford.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>&bull\; We have a drain of gra duate and undergraduate students who get their degree in electronics\, but later move to software and computer science jobs. We wanted you to share how your professional career evolved (your life story) and how you followe d your passion as an example in order to motivate students to pursue their paths in semiconductor and hardware engineering.<br />o This part can be 20 min.<br /><br />&bull\; Also\, to give them the vision\, it would be ve ry helpful if you can provide a perspective on applications for GaN-based electronics and then narrow it down to the bottlenecks that may need furth er attention and effort by researchers and students.<br />o This part can be 15 &ndash\; 20 min.<br /><br />&bull\; We can reserve 5-10 min for ques tions.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR