Semiconductor Power Electronics Center

Power Electronics is the enabling technology for an electrified world, converting electric energy from one form to the other, from a few watts to 100s MW
SPEC is a center of excellence with strong industry guidance
- Educate and train world class students
- Perform and publish world-class research
- Design, build, and test first-of-a-kind devices and systems
- World class facility accessible by industry
- Technology transfer to industry ‒ Spinout companies
- Provide advice to the government
- Educating the public through demonstration and pilot project
Industry supports SPEC typically in the following three way
- Sponsor a SPEC fellowship (typically $60k/per year)
- Sponsor a contract research with defined milestones and budget
- Joint proposal to government (NSF, DOE, Arpa-E etc.)