Madison, Wisconsin, United States
My research and teaching interests are - Electric drives - Power electronics - Electric machines - Electrification of transportation
RESEARCH: Supervising graduate students at Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department - Power Electronics - Wide bandgap semiconductor-based power electronics - Electric Machines - Novel electric machines, high-speed machines, characterization of losses, multi-objective and disciplinary optimization - Electric Vehicles (Ground, Sea, Air) - Electric machines, power electronics, integrated motor drives TEACHING: Developed two new graduate-level courses at Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department • ECE 901 Control of Electric Drives for Wind Turbines (New) • ECE 905 Power Electronic Systems for Sustainable Energy (New) - ECE 714 Utility Application of Power Electronics - ECE 412 Power Electronic Circuits - ECE 713 Electromagnetic Design of AC Machines - ECE 230 Circuit Analysis OUTREACH: Developed seven new short courses at Engineering Professional Development (EPD) department • Introduction to Electrical Energy Storage Devices and Systems • Introduction to EMI/EMC and Best Practices • AC Machine Design Fundamentals • PM Machine Design Boot Camp - Internal PM, Surface PM and Brushless DC • Power Electronics Boot Camp • Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Boot Camp • Fundamentals of Distributed Energy Resources Also directs and lectures in flagship short courses taught by WEMPEC faculty - Introduction to Power Electronics - Permanent Magnet Machines and Drives: Principles, Design and Applications - Dynamics and Controls of AC Drives SERVICE: • General Co-Chair IEEE ITEC, 2013 • Guest Associate Editor, Special Issue on Transportation Electrification and Vehicle Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2012-2013 • Guest Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics 2013-2014 - Editor (Electric Planes) - IEEE Electrification Magazine
Special Session Program Co-chair for the 12th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE 2020) in Detroit, Michigan between Oct 11, 2020 - Oct 15, 2020. ECCE 2020 is sponsored by the IEEE Industrial Application Society (IAS) and IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS).
Volunteer as Technical Program Co-chair for the 11th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE 2019), to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA between September 29 – October 3, 2019.
WEMPEC is an internationally renowned engineering research group located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With the support of our 80+ corporate sponsors, our team of professors, graduate students, and international scholars work together to research and develop the newest technologies in power electronics, actuators, sensors, drives, motion control, and drive applications.
June, 13-15, 2018, Long Beach Convention Center, California, USA http://itec-conf.com/
Bulent worked 11 years at the Honeywell International aerospace division, helping to design various electric drives for complex subsystems for various More Electric Aircraft (MEA) initiatives. Programs worked on included internally and externally funded R&D programs as well as major development platforms. Bulent contributed to electric drives design and development for certain systems for Airbus A380 and A350 aircraft and carried out advanced technology demonstration programs for other innovative aircraft research, including the Boeing 7E7 (later renamed Boeing 787 Dreamliner) and Boeing Sonic Cruiser. Bulent worked more than 50+ proposals and significantly contributed to winning major programs as well as externally funded research programs from various agencies for Honeywell. In addition to aerospace, Bulent also had the opportunity to contribute his expertise to some other naval and ground vehicle programs and proposals. Bulent received peer-nominated Honeywell's Outstanding Engineering Award in 2011.