Philip T. Krein

Philip T. Krein University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 341 Everitt Laboratory 1406 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Grainger Endowed Director's Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics
Director, Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Past President, IEEE Power Electronics Society
Past IEEE Division II Delegate and Member, Board of Directors

Education:

B.S. (electrical engineering), A.B. (economics and business) 1978, Lafayette College

M.S. (electrical engineering) 1980, Ph.D. (electrical engineering) 1982, University of Illinois

Areas of Interest:

Analysis, control, and design approaches for power electronic systems

Modeling and control of electrical machinery

Applications of electrostatics

Portable and spacecraft power

Electric and hybrid vehicle systems

Contacts:

Electronic mail: krein at uiuc.edu

Phone, +1 (217) 333-4732

Fax, +1 (217) 333-1162

Additional Information:

Prof. Krein joined the University of Illinois faculty in 1987. He was in industry prior to that time.

He introduced the modern power electronics curriculum, and developed classroom and laboratory courses. For ten years he was a Faculty Advisor to the University's Advanced Electric Vehicle Program, and has worked with large student teams on hybrid and solar cars.

From 1997-98, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom.

He is a Past President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and was IEEE Division II Director in 2003-2004.  He serves as the Editor of the new IEEE Power Electronics Letters publication, introduced in 2003.  He served as the Long-Range Planning Chair for the international Future Energy Challenge student competition, and is now a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society.