IEEE Electrification Magazine - September 2013 - 2

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

A Global View
of Electrification
By Saifur Rahman

ELCOME TO THE INAUGURAL ISSUE OF IEEE
Electrification Magazine. This is a quarterly magazine to
be published in March, June, September, and December
of each year. This magazine, which has a global view of electrification in all types of transportation and off-grid applications, is
designed to fill the need of engineers in the industry as well as
policymakers who require information on technology, use cases,
and field experience in electrification in the 21st century.
This magazine is financially cosponsored by three IEEE
technical Societies-the IEEE Power & Energy Society, the IEEE
Industry Applications Society, and the IEEE Power Electronics
Society. In addition, it is technically cosponsored by three
other IEEE Societies-the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society,
the IEEE Vehicle Transportation Society, and the IEEE Intelligent
Transportation Systems Society-as well as the IEEE Transportation Electrification Initiative (TEI). We have assembled a
highly qualified editorial board comprised of ten members
from academia, government, and industry in different parts of
the world. Each topic of the magazine-electric vehicles, electric ships, electric trains, electric planes, and off-grid electrification-is looked after by one editor and one coeditor. Their
contact information is provided to the right. They are the primary points of contact for authors who wish to submit articles
for consideration in IEEE Electrification Magazine.
This first issue of the magazine has the following six articles covering electric trains, electric ships, electric vehicles,
and microgrids. The authors of these articles, who are from
industry as well as academia, are experts in their fields and
provide great insight into the technology, best practices, and
customer acceptance issues:
1) "The Dependence on Mechanical Design in Railway Electrification: Focusing on the AC Perspective"

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EDITORIAL BOARD
Saifur Rahman
Editor-in-Chief
Virginia Tech
Virginia, USA
srahman@vt.edu
Iqbal Husain
Editor, Electric Vehicles
North Carolina State
University
North Carolina, USA
ihusain2@ncsu.edu
Eduard Muljadi
Coeditor, Electric Vehicles
NREL: Wind Research
Colorado, USA
eduard.muljadi@nrel.gov
Herb Ginn
Editor, Electric Ships
Universitiy of
South Carolina
South Carolina, USA
ginnhl@cec.sc.edu
Robert Cuzner
Coeditor, Electric Ships
DRS Power and Control
Technologies
Wisconsin, USA
RobertMCuzner@drs.
com
Eduardo Pilo de la
Fuente
Editor, Electric Trains
EPRail Research
and Consulting
Spain
eduardo.pilo@eprail.com
Jose Conrado Martine
Coeditor, Electric Trains
Directcion de Estrategia
y Desarrollo
Spain
jcmartinez@adif.es
Bulent Sarlioglu
Editor, Electric Planes
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, USA
bulent@engr.wisc.edu

Mohammad
Shahidehpour
Editor, Off-Grid
Illinois Institute
of Technology
Chicago, USA
ms@iit.edu
Steve Pullins
Coeditor, Off-Grid
Horizon Energy Group
Tennessee, USA
spullins@horizonenergy
group.com
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