IEEE PES BracU Student Branch Chapter and IEEE BracU Student Branch in collaboration with IEEE PES Bangladesh Chapter organized a seminar titled “Industrial and Biomedical Applications of Power Electronics” on July 24, 2019 at GDLN Centre. The seminar was conducted by an eminent scholar Dr. Faisal Khan who is a senior member of IEEE and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics. Dr. Faisal Khan is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA. The Chairperson of EEE department started the seminar by introducing the speaker.
In this seminar Dr. Khan gave some interesting information on the advantage of increasing switching frequency of circuits, talked about new component which behaves like an inductor but not an inductor, explained how power electronics is related to biomedical engineering through an example of powering up the kidney in human body. He also gave some very effective information on how to tackle an IGBT failure, the importance of understanding the health of a converter system. Dr. Khan summarized his speech by informing about various ideas which includes how one can design a smart IGBT, new device with new architecture to detect degradation in high power IGBTs and a new concept for gate driver.
About 40 students and faculty members of the department attended the seminar. At the end of the seminar, Chairperson of the Department of EEE, Prof. Shahidul Islam Khan thanked the speaker and handed over a token of appreciation.