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The first-place winner of the 3M4Q competition receives her award
certificate and gift check from Brahim Mezghani, Slim Abdelkafi
(ENIS director), and Mohamed Masmoudi (director, EDST-ENIS). This
was during the closing ceremony of the JEDST'22 at the ENIS.
ing these four topics: the choice of
their PhD subject,
the way it was
tackled, the impact of their research
work, and the sustainability of the
research results.
Based on the results of a review
of the submitted videos, the 10 best
were short-listed, and the respecThe
five winners of the 3M4Q competition. Najemeddine Abdennour
(ENET'COM); Meriem Ben Lazreg (ENISo), who received the secondplace
prize; Raoudha Nouisser (FSEG); Chékra El Fehri (ENIS); and
Besma Mnassri (ENIS).
tive students were invited to attend
the competition in person, during
which the evaluation was based on
feedback from the scientific committee
of the competition, professors
from different Tunisian institutions,
guests from local
industry,
and Ph.D. students who were pres-Brahim
Mezghani
ent and interested in participating
in the grading of the preselected
candidates. The top five winners
received award certificates and
prizes during the closing ceremony
of JEDST'22.
H
Short Course on Emerging Solutions
for Power Management Systems
Hooman Reyhani (IEEE United Kingdom
and Ireland Section) hosted a
sold-out live/virtual short course,
" Emerging Power Management Solutions "
in May 2022. Prof. Aleksandar
Prodic (University of Toronto) delivered
an eight-lecture seminar with
the main motivation of reducing the
volume and weight of switch-mode
power supplies (SMPSs) while improving
power-processing efficiency.
Overall, 100 analog design engineers-including
a record-breaking
number of female participants-based
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in South America, North America,
Europe, Asia, and Oceania, representing
semiconductor technology giants
and leading research organizations,
participated in these cutting-edge
presentations. A total of 14 countries
from 16 time zones were represented
at
this
international course: Japan,
Australia, Germany, Austria, Belgium,
Switzerland, the Czech Republic,
France, Scotland, England, Ireland,
Canada, the United States, and Brazil.
Prodic has been a professor in the
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, University of Toronto,
since 2003. He has led the Laboratory
for Power Management (PM) and InteIEEE
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grated SMPSs since 2004. His general
research interest is power electronics,
with a special focus on practical
advanced control methods; converter
topologies; mixed-signal IC design;
and low-power, high-frequency SMPS
and PM systems. The applications
range from on-chip power supplies
for portable devices to automotive PM
systems. He has 80+ research publications
and 20+ patents, many of which
have become commercial products.
Power supply systems for mobile
devices, computers, consumer electronics,
and numerous other applications
are going through significant
transformations. The changes are driven
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