2013 AdCom Call for Nominations

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS DEIS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE (AdCom) AdCom manages the affairs of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS). It is made up of 18 members-at-large, plus ex-officio members. Nominations And Appointment…

TDEI Associate Editors Appointed

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Results of the recent AdCom voting for the appointment of three new Associate Editors for the TDEI: Waldemar Ziomek Jacobus P. Holtzhausen Francesco Guastavino I can confirm that each of the three nominated Associate Editors have been appointed…

Motor Core Insulation, Reliability Due to Repair

Impact of Inter-Laminar Insulation Damage on Small to Medium Voltage Machine Life There are opportunities to negatively impact the life of electric machines through the repair process. The potential depends on the type of core steel, inter-laminar…

CEIDP Call for Papers

Dear colleagues, The Organizing Committee of the 2013 IEEE CEIDP (Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena) is pleased to inform you that the abstract submission site is now open. The abstract submission deadline is February…

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…