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Burns & McDonnell has joined the distinguished list of financial supporters of the PES Scholarship Plus Initiative. Jeff Camden (first on left) and
Michael Beehler (third from the left) from Burns & McDonnell meet PES Scholars John Hoffman, Travis Hinney, Aaron Rosenthall, and Nicholas
Coleman at the 2014 PES General Meeting.

Companies and individuals are
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the initiative. This donation will educate and inspire the next generation
of power and energy engineers. The
initiative needs support from individuals who want to give back to IEEE

and from the industry that ultimately
benefits from gaining new engineers.
Donate to the IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative by visiting our
Web site (http://www.ee-scholarship.
org/sponsorship/donate-now/). Individuals and companies in Canada
can provide support for the program

through the IEEE PES Canadian
Scholarship Fund, which is managed
by the IEEE Canadian Foundation; see
http://www.ieeecanadianfoundation.
org/EN/donateonline.php.

TECHNOLOGY LEADERS

More Electric Aircraft Trends
the use of different power types of
power conversion circuits including
active rectifiers are being investigated
for use in MEA systems. This issue of
IEEE Electrification Magazine focuses on
MEA technologies. The three feature
articles in this issue have been selected
to introduce the readers to the technology and challenges of MEA, electric
machines, as well as the power generation, power electronic systems, and
the simulation of a hybrid aircraft
power train.
Aerospace companies need to continue to invest in MEA-related technologies and work closely with
national labs and research organizations to develop the new-generation
architectures and technologies that

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will lead to increased electric systems
to optimize their value function. The
long-term goal is an "all-electric" aircraft, with MEA being the evolutionary
step. Meanwhile, MEA will bridge two
eras in aircraft technology as airplanes move toward the deployment
of increased electric and electronic
systems. NASA's future hybrid wingbody electric airplane with a turboelectric distributed-propulsion system
is a step in the right direction to
achieve these goals. Terrafugia's TF-X,
a fixed-wing street-legal aircraft with
electric ground drive and electric
power assist on takeoff and landing,
which can recharge its batteries either
from its engine or by plugging into
electric car charging stations, is also

an important step for the future of
personal air transportation.

Biography
Kaushik Rajashekara (k.raja@utdallas.
edu) earned his Ph.D. degree from the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Since 1 August 2012, he has been a distinguished professor of engineering
and endowed chair in the Erik Jonsson
School of Engineering and Computer
Science at The University of Texas at
Dallas. He is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering and is the
recepient of the IEEE Richard Harold
Kaufmann award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of electrical systems in transportation.

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