Hermetic Electric Machine Insulation Compatibility

When machines fail and go through the repair process it is important to understand the application. While most are fairly common and insulation upgrades from class B or F to class H are the industry norm, the compatibility with the environment…

Capacitance Monitoring for Global VPI

There are several ways of determining penetration of epoxy resins through the global VPI cycle.  One of the ways is to perform the complete cycle and include ‘sacrificial coils’ held in a faugh-slot, then cut the coil into sections to ensure…

2012 Student Graduate Fellow’s presentations

IPMHVC June 2012, San Diego, CA, US  Jouya Jadidian is a Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. Before joining the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of MIT, he worked on magnetic…

Annual Memberships

It is that time of season when we need to renew our annual IEEE memberships! If you are not already a member of the Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, please visit our Join DEIS page for information on the benefits of IEEE Dielectrics…

The Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory

 TDHVL Main Hall The Laboratory is named in commemoration of Tony Davies, Professor of Electrical Power Engineering from 1994 until his untimely death on 4 July 2002. Tony Davies joined the University of Southampton in 1978 as Pirelli Lecturer…

2012 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award

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 Sponsored by Wolfson Microelectronics plc Professer  GERHARD M. SESSLER who is a long time DEIS member has been awarded the Maxwell Medal, and it was presented to him at a ceremony in Scotland by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh on September…

In Memory of Professor John Tanaka (1924-2012)

The Electrical Insulation Magazine and the DEIS have lost one of their longest-serving, hard-working and ardent supporters.  Professor John Tanaka passed away on April 14, 2012 at the age of eighty-seven, due to complications of amyotrophic…

Call for Papers 2013 TDEI: Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of the  IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics  We are pleased to announce that the December 2013 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics…