About The FEECThe Future Energy Electronics Center (FEEC), part of The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, promotes and develops energy-efficient electronic technologies for the transportation and industrial automation industries. The Center's capabilities include modeling, simulation, and design and test of power-electronics devices, components, circuits and systems. Former and current sponsors include: |
Army Research Labs Ballard Power Systems Danfoss-Turbocor Delphi Research Labs Delphi Power Systems Institute of Nuclear Energy Research National Institute of Standards and Technology National Science Foundation National Semiconductor Northrop Grumman Corporation Powerex, Inc. |
ReliOn Rutgers University Tatung System Technologies Total Energy Company United Silicon Carbide US DOE Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance Program US DOE FreedomCAR Program Visteon Corporation Vollrath VPT, Inc. |
Current Projects
- Microgrid with Parallel Inverters
- Photovoltaic Microinverter
- 55kW Motor Drive for FreedomCAR Electric Vehicle
- 5kW Soft Switching Grid-Tie Inverter
- 2.7kW Photovoltaic Simulator
- 4kW Grid-Tie Solar Inverter
- 1.5kW Bidirectional Dc-Dc Charger
Headline News
- FEEC partners with Advanced Research Institute to host 2008 NSF Workshop on Advanced Power Conditioning for Alternate Energy.
- FEEC received DOE FreedomCAR Program Award: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University of Blacksburg, Virginia, has been selected for negotiation of an award of up to $1.7 million for a project that will focus on developing an advanced softswitching inverter for reducing switching and power losses. Other team members include Azure Dynamics, Powerex, and National Institute of Standards and Technology. For more information, Please click on the following link
- 2007 Internation Future Energy Challenge announced
- VT FEEC receives SiC diodes (PIN & Schottky types) from Northrop Grumman for high-voltage testing