BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241030T174310Z UID:78612D2A-098A-48D4-96CD-0D392C941AB1 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T193000 DESCRIPTION:Kaushik Rajashekara\n\nUniversity of Houston\, Texas\n\nUSA\n\n The transportation industry is facing challenges in terms of improving emi ssions and fuel economy\, and at the same time reducing the overall cost. The trend is towards replacing mechanical and pneumatic systems with elect rical systems\, thus transitioning toward “more electric” architecture s and electric/hybrid propulsion systems. To meet these challenges in the automotive industry\, significant work has been done in the areas of elect ric\, hybrid\, and fuel cell vehicles. In the case of airplanes\, more ele ctric architecture \, fuel cell\, and hybrid propulsion strategies are the emerging trends. Recently\, there is also an increasing interest in flyin g cars\, and Electrical vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOL) to be used as air taxis. Similar strategies have been adopted in Marine propu lsion systems also. This presentation examines present trends and advancem ents in electric/hybrid vehicles\, electric and hybrid aircrafts\, hydroge n-based systems\, and flying cars/VTOL vehicles. In addition\, recent tre nds in the enabling technologies\, power electronics and electric motors\, for the advancement of the electrified transportation will be briefly pre sented.\n\nKaushik Rajashekara (Fellow\, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree i n electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science\, Bangalore\ , India. In 1989\, he joined the Delphi division of General Motors Corpora tion in Indianapolis\, USA\, as a Staff Project Engineer. In Delphi and Ge neral Motors\, he held various lead technical and managerial positions\, a nd was a Technical Fellow and the Chief Scientist for developing propulsio n and power electronics systems for electric\, hybrid\, and fuel cell vehi cle systems. In 2006\, he joined Rolls-Royce Corporation\, as a Chief Tech nologist for electric systems for electric and hybrid aircraft systems. In August 2012\, he joined as a Distinguished Professor of Engineering with the University of Texas at Dallas\, TX\, USA. Since September 2016\, he ha s been a Distinguished Professor of engineering in University of Houston\, Houston\, TX\, USA. He has authored or coauthored over 300 papers in inte rnational journals and conferences\, has 37 US and 15 foreign patents\, an d has written one book. He has given over 200 invited presentations in int ernational conferences and universities. He has received a number of award s including the 2022 Global Energy Prize\, 2021 IEEE Medal on Environment & Safety Technologies\, and 2013 IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for hi s contributions to electrification of transportation and renewable energy. He was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2012\, \, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015\, and an International Fellow of Indian (2013)\, Chinese (2021)\, and Japanese (202 4) Academies of Engineering. His research interests include power/energy c onversion\, transportation electrification\, renewable energy\, and microg rid systems.\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/435753 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/435753 ORGANIZER:v.varma@ieee.org SEQUENCE:12 SUMMARY:Present and future trends in electrification of transportation URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/435753 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="MsoTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0in \; text-align: center\;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt\; f ont-weight: normal\;">Kaushik Rajashekara</span></p>\n<p class="MsoTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0in\; text-align: center\;" align="center"><span sty le="font-size: 12.0pt\; font-weight: normal\;">University of Houston\, Tex as</span></p>\n<p class="MsoTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0in\; text-align: center\;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt\; font-weight: no rmal\;">USA</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify\;" ><span style="font-family: 'Arial'\,sans-serif\; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'\;">The transportation industry is facing challenges in terms of improving emissions and fuel economy\, and at the same time reduc ing the overall cost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>The trend is towards replacing mechanical and pneumatic systems with electrica l systems\, thus transitioning toward &ldquo\;more electric&rdquo\; archit ectures and electric/hybrid propulsion systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>To meet these challenges in the automotive industry\ , significant work has been done in the areas of electric\, hybrid\, and f uel cell vehicles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>In the case of airplanes\, more electric architecture \, fuel cell\, and hybrid p ropulsion strategies are the emerging trends.<span style="mso-spacerun: ye s\;">&nbsp\; </span>Recently\, there is also an increasing interest in fly ing cars\, and Electrical vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOL) t o be used as air taxis. Similar strategies have been adopted in Marine pro pulsion systems also. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'\,sans-serif \;">This presentation examines present trends and advancements in electric /hybrid vehicles\, electric and hybrid aircrafts\, hydrogen-based systems\ , and flying cars/VTOL vehicles. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>In addition\, recent trends in the enabling technologies\, power el ectronics and electric motors\, for the advancement of the electrified tra nsportation will be briefly presented.</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" st yle="margin-bottom: 8.0pt\; text-align: justify\; line-height: 107%\;"><sp an style="font-size: 11.0pt\; line-height: 107%\; font-family: 'Arial'\,sa ns-serif\; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri\; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt\; ms o-fareast-language: ZH-CN\;">Kaushik Rajashekara (Fellow\, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Sc ience\, Bangalore\, India. In 1989\, he joined the Delphi division of Gene ral Motors Corporation in Indianapolis\, USA\, as a Staff Project Engineer . In Delphi and General Motors\, he held various lead technical and manage rial positions\, and was a Technical Fellow and the Chief Scientist for de veloping propulsion and power electronics systems for electric\, hybrid\, and fuel cell vehicle systems. In 2006\, he joined Rolls-Royce Corporation \, as a Chief Technologist for electric systems for electric and hybrid ai rcraft systems. In August 2012\, he joined as a Distinguished Professor of Engineering with the University of Texas at Dallas\, TX\, USA. Since Sept ember 2016\, he has been a Distinguished Professor of engineering in Unive rsity of Houston\, Houston\, TX\, USA. He has authored or coauthored over 300 papers in international journals and conferences\, has 37 US and 15 fo reign patents\, and has written one book. He has given over 200 invited pr esentations in international conferences and universities.<span style="mso -spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>He has received a number of awards includ ing the 2022 Global Energy Prize\, 2021 IEEE Medal on Environment &amp\; S afety Technologies\, and 2013 IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for his c ontributions to electrification of transportation and renewable energy.<sp an style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>He was elected as a member o f the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2012\, \, a Fellow of the Na tional Academy of Inventors in 2015\, and an International Fellow of India n (2013)\, Chinese (2021)\, and Japanese (2024) Academies of Engineering. His research interests include power/energy conversion\, transportation el ectrification\, renewable energy\, and microgrid systems.&nbsp\;</span></p > END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR