Track 3 – IEEE PELS Students and Young Professionals Symposium

INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS

Track 3 focuses on the development of SYPs and provide with the opportunity to broaden the horizon of knowledge with various Industry Professionals. This track is curated for young professionals to network with the industry leaders from various leading industries. The track makes an effort to create various job opportunities via Virtual Job Fair.

Date: 29-03-2021

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Time (GMT)	Session Title	Speaker	Session Room	Host
10:00 – 10:30	Welcome to industry day	Prof. Frede Blaabjerg	Main stage	Renan Pillon Barcelos
10:30 – 11:30	How was your first experience in Industry	Andressa Colvero Schittler, Hao Huang	Main stage	Leonardo Bellincanta de Souza
11:30 – 13:00	Good practices and desirable qualities for successful candidates	Stuart Bennet , Johanna Junghölter, Helena Wolf	Main stage	Milad Soleimani
13:00	Job Fair	–	Booths/Gathertown	–
13:30 – 14:00	Huawei	–	Main stage	–
14:00 – 14:30	Typhoon HIL	–	Main stage	–
14:30 – 16:00	Sharing experience in Industry and Academic work environment	Eduardo Façanha, Luca Dalessandro, Kateryna Morozovska, Stefanie Heinig	Main stage	Milan Utvic
16:00 – 16:45	Getting involved in the IEEE Power Electronics Society for networking, career mentoring, education and research training”	Brad Lehman	Main stage	Leonardo Bellincanta de Souza
16:45 – 17:30	Building Momentum in Industry: Skills to Excel during Your First 5 Years	Lauren Kegley Kristen Parrish	Main stage	Randima Hasanthi
17:30 – 18:00	Experience talk – SYPS awards	Renan Pillon Barcelos, Indhumathi Gunasekaran	Main stage	Renan Pillon Barcelos

SPEAKERS

Eduardo Façanha de Oliveira

My experience at the Industry and the Academic work environment

Eduardo Façanha de Oliveira

My experience at the Industry and the Academic work environment

Senior Engineer | Automotive Power Electronics Design. Winner | Young Scientist Award Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), 2010.

Short biography

Eduardo F. de Oliveira received the bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Ceará, Ceará, Brazil, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. In 2013 he joined the Centre of Competence for Distributed Electric Power Technology (KDEE) - University of Kassel as a member of a research staff, where he is also working toward his Ph.D. topic concerning GaN‑based DC/DC converter for electric vehicles applications. Since May 2020 he is with the Huawei Research Center in Nuremberg as a senior engineer in automotive power electronics design. His research focuses on design and integration of high performance power converters for automotive applications. Oliveira received the Young Scientist Award from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in 2010.

Renan Pillon Barcelos

Closing Ceremony for Track - Experience talk - SYPS awards

Renan Pillon Barcelos

Closing Ceremony for Track - Experience talk - SYPS awards

PELS Student Membership chair (2021-2022)

Short Biography

Renan Pillon Barcelos is a Ph.D. student in power electronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He obtained his master's degree in engineering from Federal University of Santa Catarina and a bachelor's degree at the Federal University of Santa Maria. Renan joined the IEEE volunteer community in 2016, and since then, he has been working to promote more student activities for PELS members. Renan is currently the PELS Student Membership chair (2021-2022) and a PELS YP team member. His area of research is in DC power systems.

Helena Wolf

Helena Wolf

Technical Recruiter | Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH M.A. (Human resources and labour law), Hof University of Applied Sciences

Short Biography

Working Experience: - March 2020 until today Technical Recruiter at Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH - May 2018–Feb. 2020 Recruiting Specialist at Hays AG in the field of Engineering - Sept. 2016–Dez. 2017 Intern and working student at Siemens AG

Education: - Human resources and labour law at Hof University of Applied Sciences Graduated as : Master of Arts (M.A.) - Business Management at University of Applied Sciences/Campus M21 Graduated as: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Luca Dalessandro

My experience at the Industry and the Academic work environment

Luca Dalessandro

My experience at the Industry and the Academic work environment

Managing Director at ETIX GmbH. Expert at INNOSUISSE , Swiss Innovation Agency.

Short Biography

Education: PhD in power electronics ETH Zurich, Prof. Kolar (2006).

Professional Experience: 2008-2011, R&D and Project- Manager @ Alstom (General Electric), Baden & Birr. Focus: Calculation and design of electrical machines 2011-2014, R&D and Project Manager @ ABB, Turgi Focus: HW & SW development MV frequency converters 2014-2020 at Schaffner Group, Luterbach (SO) Since 2016 Group Technology Manager at Schaffner Group. Since Oct. 2020- Managing Director of the ETIX GmbH and Expert at INNOSUISSE

Teaching activities: Virginia Tech (2006-2007), ETH Zurich (2013-2014). Collaboration with many UAS in Switzerland: FHNW (Prof. Wiederkehr), BFH (Prof. Höckel), Hes-So Valais (Prof. Roggo) Since 2017: - Co-chairman of the European PhD Schoon in Power Electronics -Chairman of the IES Chapter - IEEE Swiss Section - Associate Editor of the Transactions on PE and of the Transactions on IE - International Expert of the IEC 77/SS 77A/WG 8 Regulation of the 0-150 kHz Range. Over 30 publications in scientific journals /conferences;10 patents/patent applications https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yRbs7sQAAAAJ&hl=en

Stuart Bennett

Good practices and desirable qualities for successful candidates.

Stuart Bennett

Good practices and desirable qualities for successful candidates.

Senior Recruitment Consultant , (Power Electronics, Power Supplies, Motor Controls) IC Resources, United Kingdom.

Short Biography

Stuart Bennett – Senior Recruitment Consultant – Power Electronics – IC Resources

Stuart works for one of Europe’s largest Electronics and Semiconductor recruitment agencies. He works solely within the Power Electronics, Power Supply and Power Semiconductor arena and has built up a large network of clients and candidates Globally.

Over the last 5 years, he has successfully partnered with some of Europe’s most innovative clients from seed funded start-ups to blue-chip organisations and has placed in excess of 80 engineers onto the next step on their career ladder.

About IC Resources IC Resources is Europe's leading deep-tech recruitment company, covering Technical, Sales and Marketing and Operations roles across Software, Semiconductor, Electronics, IT and Creative.

At an individual level, every person is seeking a successful and satisfying career. At a corporate level, every company seeks out the most talented people who will contribute to the organisation’s long-term success. Our role is to ensure that these individual and communal aspirations are fulfilled through mutually beneficial introductions.

Our goal is simple: to deliver value to the individuals and companies we work with. Our candidates are given well-informed career advice and introduced to opportunities which help them progress their careers. Our clients are introduced to talented individuals with sought-after skills who can help them succeed in a globally competitive marketplace.

Since 1999, IC Resources has been delivering efficient, authoritative, and cost-effective recruitment results, with customer service excellence and rigorous ethical standards being of paramount importance to us.

If you’d like to discuss the employment marketplace, salary levels, your recruitment strategy or indeed your career, please contact us.

Andressa Colvero Schittler

How was your first experience in Industry

Andressa Colvero Schittler

How was your first experience in Industry

Development engineer at Infineon Technologies AG, Warstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Short Biography

Ms. Schittler has received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil) in Electrical Engineering, in 2010 and 2012 respectively, and is currently working towards her doctoral dissertation at the University of Kassel, focusing on EMI in power electronics. From 2012 to 2016 she was with the Center of Competence for Distributed Electric Power Technology (KDEE). Since 2016 she is with Infineon Technologies AG, working on the development of IGBT modules.

Kateryna Morozovska

My experience at the Industry and the Academic work environment

Kateryna Morozovska

My experience at the Industry and the Academic work environment

CTO at Blås Energy, Postdoc at KTH, Sweden.

Short Biography

Kateryna Morozovska is a PostDoctoral researcher at KTH, Sweden, CTO at Blås Energy and CTO and founder at DTR1. She has been closely working with industry during her PhD at KTH and has 2 years of experience in entrepreneurship.

Stefanie Heinig

My experience at the Industry and the Academic work environment

Stefanie Heinig

My experience at the Industry and the Academic work environment

R&D Engineer Power Electronics, Hitachi ABB Power Grids, Switzerland

Short Biography

Stefanie Heinig received the M.Sc. degree in sustainable electrical energy supply from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2020. Her Ph.D. thesis is on the topic of main circuits, submodules, and auxiliary power concepts for converters in HVDC grids. She has been with the ABB Corporate Research Center in Västerås, Sweden, between 2014-2015, and joined the power electronics team at Hitachi ABB Power Grids in November 2020. Her main research interests include power converters for grid applications and grid integration of renewable energy sources.