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INDUSTRY EVENTS

EE'S SIGHTS FROM APEC 2019

All images by Mike Hockett/EE

By Mike Hockett, Editor-in-Chief
During March 17-21, the Anaheim
Convention Center hosted the 34th
annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics
Conference and Exposition, or better
known as APEC 2019.
Considered the premier event in applied power electronics, it was my first
time attending, and it provided an excellent follow-up to Evaluation Engineering's
March Special Report on Power Supplies
& Loads. The APEC expo floor was filled
with vendors' latest solutions in power
supply, power conversion, switching, power electronics components, charging, and
almost anything else you could think of

involved in power electronics. The event's
attendee/registrant numbers hadn't been
posted by the time we went to print, but
there were 265 pre-registered exhibitors,
and the 2018 event had more than 4,500
total attendees. Along with myself, there
were 34 pre-registered trade press members for APEC 2019.
Besides the expo, APEC provided plenty
of theoretical and application-oriented
learning opportunities through a broad
offering of educational sessions, including
professional education seminars, technical paper presentations, application-based
industry sessions, and RAP sessions.

APEC is made possible through the
work of its all-volunteer organizing committee, and its three sponsoring organizations: Power Sources Manufacturers
Association (PSMA), IEEE's Power
Electronics Society (PELS), and Industry
Applications Society (IAS).
I attended APEC for the days of March
19-20, spending most of my time there
taking in the expo. Below is a sampling
of what I saw there. It was a great event,
and I learned a lot. APEC 2020 will be held
March 15-19 at the N. Morial Convention
Center in New Orleans, LA, during March
15-19 of next year.
Some expo
floor industry
sessions had
beyond-capacity
attendance, such
as this one by
SBE Inc. chief
technology officer
Michael Brubaker,
titled, "Optimal DC
Link Topologies for
Best Utilization of
Switch Modules."

APEC was hosted at the Anaheim Convention
Center amid gorgeous weather.

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Semiconductor Test: 1000A high-current RDSon static parameter DC testing vs. pulse testing at 300µs
EE's Sights from APEC 2019
Tech Focus
Featured Tech
Industrial Internet of Things - IIoT 2019: The industrial Revolution keeps on ticking
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