David Durocher

Role of IEEE Industry Application Society (IEEE IAS) in supporting the professionals engaged in the applications of electrical and electronics

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David B. Durocher is Global Mining, Metals & Minerals Industry Manager for Eaton’s Electrical Business. He has over 35 years of experience with Westinghouse and Eaton serving in a variety of product engineering, sales and global marketing roles, authoring numerous technical papers that have been presented at conferences around the world and published in IEEE Industry Applications, Plant Engineering and EC&M Magazine. Dave is a Senior Member IEEE and presently serves as a member of the IEEE IAS Mining Industry Committee, Cement Industry Committee, Pulp & Paper Industry Committee and as President of the IEEE Industry Applications Society

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Magyar

IEEE IAS chapters and membership benefits

Electric car technology in reality

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Dr. Peter Magyar is a Fellow IEEE. He received Dipl. eng. and the Dr. Tech. degrees from the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary During 1967 to 1991, he was with the Department of Automation of the same university as an assistant professor and a research associate. From 1982, he led the Laboratory of Microprocessor Controlled Drives of the same department. Dr. Magyar has been author and co-author for several technical papers and books and filed more than 30 patents. His research interest focused on control and mathematical modelling of electrical drives and power converters. He was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, Bonn, Germany. He was head of development for power electronics and drives with Hanning-Works and with D-Tech Ltd., both Germany. Currently, he is retired from Hella KGaA Hueck&Co., Germany, where he was with the Advanced Development Department from 2004 to 2009. His areas of interest have been control of electrical drives, car steering control and automatic car parking / manoeuvre systems. He is a consultant in the fields of electric cars and electrical drives. He has been chair (2003-2004) of the IAS/PELS/IES German Chapter, chapter coordinator (2005-2010) and nominations and appointments officer (2007-2012) of the Section’s Executive Committee. In the R8 Committee, he was Division II representative (2007-2008) and chair (2009-2010) of the R8 Chapter Coordination Subcommittee,. His recent activities at IAS relates to chapter and membership development activity organizing and travel awards for ~12,000 members, 140 section chapters and 95 student branch chapters.

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