The Nominations & Appointments Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) is calling for nominations for the following positions in the IES Administrative Committee (AdCom):

• Four Members-at-Large to be elected from IES Members, due 15 May 2022
• Three Members-at-Large to be appointed from IES AdCom, due 30 June 2022
• Five Officers to be appointed by IES AdCom, due 30 June 2022:

• Vice-President for Workshop Activities
• Vice-President for Membership Activities
• Vice-President for Publications
• Vice-President for Industrial Activities
• Treasurer

The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) invites nominations for the following positions: 

• Editor-in-Chief of TII (Transactions on Industrial Informatics)
• Three-year term starting 1 January 2023
• Editor-in-Chief of OJIES (Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society)
• Three-year term starting 1 January 2023
• Editor-in-Chief of JESTIE (Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics)
• Three-year term starting 1 January 2023
• Co-Editor-in-Chiefs of TIE (Transactions on Industrial Electronics)
• Three open positions for different areas, three-year term all starting 1 January 2023

Nominations should be sent to IES Vice-President for Publications, Thilo Sauter, [email protected], no later than 13 May 2022. Self-nomination is permitted.

This special section aims to provide a timely opportunity for researchers, practicing engineers, and other stakeholders to share their latest discoveries related to power electronic converters as well as renewable energy, storage, and smart grid challenges and opportunities with a clear focus on low inertia power systems.

ISIE 2022 will be held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, between 1-3 June 2022, and is now confirmed to be the first ‘in-person’ conference of the Industrial Electronics Society after a two-year break due to the pandemic.

The organization team is now even more motivated to engage you in an event that will make up for ‘lost time’ in terms of face-to-face technical sessions, world-class keynotes and tutorials, as well as unprecedented networking and professional development opportunities with social events and experiences that are blended with the splendor of Alaska.

We welcome you to join in this once-in-a-lifetime experience that you will always remember. Please visit our website for our keynotes, tutorials, career coaching and leadership sessions. Our technical sessions, competitions, and exciting social events will also be announced soon.

The 16th edition of IEEE International Conference on compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering will be held from 29 June to 1 July 2022 in Birmingham.

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is one of the modern power converter topologies. In this paper, a review of the latest research and development on MMCs is shown, focusing on the challenges and proposed solutions this power converter still faces in terms of modeling, control, reliability, power topologies, and new applications.

Wednesday 18 May 2022 at 6:30 PM IST, 3:00 PM CET, 9:00 AM EST
By Prabhat Ranjan Tripathi (FleetRF PVT. LTD., India)

Thursday 19 May 2022 at 2:00 PM CET, 8:00 AM EST
By Nicolas Damay (Université de technologie de Compiègne, France)