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2) "Faster than a Speeding Bullet: An overview of Japanese
High-Speed Rail Technology
and Electrification"
3) "Courting and Sparking:
Wooing Consumers' Interest in the EV Market"
4) "Shipboard Solid-State Protection: overview and
Applications"
5) "Cutting Campus Energy
Costs with Hierarchical

Technology Leaders
PES vice president for publications
and inaugural editor-in-chief for
IEEE Electrification Magazine, for his
leadership and perseverance in getting this publication approved and

years of valuable, hands-on career
experience. Since 2011, the program
has supported a total of 265 scholars
attending 109 universities, including
Ivy League colleges, flagship state
universities, and prestigious engineering colleges across the United
States. The list of 2013 scholarship
recipients will be announced in
october.
The program has provided
US$642,000 in scholarships and has
raised more than US$5 million in cash
and pledges from donors to the program. The IEEE PES Scholarship Initiative is made possible by donations to
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Control: The Economical
and Reliable operation of a
Microgrid"
6) "Cutting the Cord: Static
and Dynamic Inductive
Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles."
The September and December
2013 issues of the magazine will cover
multiple topics addressing various
transportation and off-grid issues.
Beginning in 2014, each issue will

focus on a particular topic. For example, the first three issues in 2014 will
focus on electric vehicles, microgrids,
and electric ships. For future issues,
we welcome guest editors to propose
articles on particular themes covering
our topics of interest. Please contact
me or any of the other editors or
coeditors if you are interested in proposing a topic for a special issue of
this magazine.

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off the ground. Special thanks to the
editorial board of this magazine and
our PES staff for their efforts.
I encourage you to read these articles and learn about the happenings

I E E E E l e c t r i f i catio n Magaz ine / september 2013

in electrification in our engineering
space. It is an exciting time to be part
of the electrification solution.

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