Overview of research activities at Center for Power Electronics Systems

The Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) is a National Science Foundation engineering research center with members from 5 universities and 80 industry partners. The CPES vision is to develop an integrated systems approach to via the concept of the "integrated power electronic modules" (IPEMs), thereby facilitating standardized and modular design, automated manufacturing and mass production of power electronics solutions. This paper gives a brief overview of the breadth of work ongoing at CPES, and then highlights present work that is of special interest to the electric ship power systems applications.