APEC 2008 Plenary

Arnold Alderman

"Energy efficiency workshop, PSMA" 

Anagenesis, Inc.

Arnold Alderman is founder and president of Anagenesis, Inc., a technical marketing firm. Anagenesis assists and facilitates marketing efforts for customers including top 10 semiconductor and power supply companies, start up companies, multinational conglomerates, investment firms, and independent inventors, He has 16 years of experience in product and strategically marketing positions in for power semiconductor discrete and hybrid products at Fairchild Semiconductor and International Rectifier. Mr. Alderman has held various positions with the Power Sources Manufacturing Association (PSMA) including Board Chairman. He continues to be a Board Member and presently is presently Agency Liaison for the PSMA Energy Efficiency Committee (EEC) dealing with converter efficiency standards. PSMA EEC is presently advising government agencies globally. Recent work includes co-chairing the EPRI/PSMA Workshop on “Energy Efficiency from Generator to Integrated Circuit” held in February 2006. Previously, Mr. Alderman had 12 years experience in commercial power conversion equipment design from 2 watts to 12 MVA in a broad variety of applications including ac/dc power supplies, battery chargers, ac motor control, dc motor control, induction heating converters, electronic ballast. He has a BSEE from Northeastern University in Boston Ma. and an MBA from University of New Haven, New Haven CT. He also is author of 1 patent and co-author of 3 patents. He is a member of IEEE, PELS, and IAS.

Peter Henry

"Ultraportable Electronics"

Analog Devices, Inc.

Peter Henry is Vice President of Power Management Products and Portable Computing and Handsets for Analog Devices, Inc. He is responsible for product development and all related marketing of the company’s power management technology, as well as the strategic direction for Portable products. Mr. Henry’s group develops power management solutions for handheld computing, communications, fixed power, enterprise systems and the industrial and instrumentation. In addition, Mr. Henry’s group is pioneering the development and application of next-generation digital power technology. Prior to re-joining Analog Devices in March 2006 after an 8-year leave from the company, Mr. Henry served as vice president of National Semiconductor Corporation's Portable Power Systems product line and as vice president of marketing for Suni Imaging Systems. Originally joining Analog in 1990, he held various design, marketing and management positions in the company. Peter earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed the Stanford AEA Executive Institute program in 1999.

Mark Jacobs

"Patents: How They Work and Strategic Business Considerations" 

Slater & Matsil

Mark Jacobs serves as technical consultant at the intellectual-property law firm Slater & Matsil, where he contributes to the creation and protection of clients’ intellectual property rights. His background includes more than 40 years of experience as an analog and systems engineer, and he is a named inventor on more than 50 patents that cover technologies ranging from control systems to circuit topologies to system architectures. Previously, he was a Technical Manager at Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies for over 30 years, where he led an advanced development group for power electronics, a systems engineering group for new power architectures in telecommunications systems, and the power electronics patent committee. During a portion of his time at Bell Laboratories, he managed an intercept guidance group, where he provided the technical lead. Mark received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.

Russel J. Kerkman

"Advances in adjustable speed motor drives"

Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley Company

Russel J. Kerkman (S'67-M'76-SM'88-F’98) received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1971, 1973, and 1976, respectively. From 1976 to 1980, he was an Electrical Engineer in the Power Electronics Laboratory of Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY. He is currently a Senior Engineering Consultant at Rockwell Automation / Allen Bradley Company, Mequon, WI. His career spans thirty years of industrial experience in power electronics. His current interests include: modeling and control of general purpose industrial drives, adaptive control applied to field oriented induction machines, application of observers to ac machines, design of ac motors for adjustable speed applications, and EMI from PWM inverters. He is a co-holder of thirty-eight patents, all in adjustable speed drives. Dr. Kerkman is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of ten IEEE Prize Paper Awards. He is a member of Industry Applications Society, Industrial Electronics Society, and Power Electronics Society. He was a recipient of Rockwell International’s Engineer of the Year award in 1986. In 1998 he was selected as a Corporate Inventor of the year. Dr. Kerkman was a recipient of Purdue University’s Outstanding Electrical Engineer award in 2000. In 2003 Kerkman received Rockwell Automation’s Odo J. Struger award honoring engineers for long-term outstanding technical achievement / innovation, technical contribution and technical leadership in the field of automation. In 2005 he received the IEEE-IAS first annual Gerald Kliman Innovator Award for his contributions to power conversion.

Jonathan Koomey 

"Server and data storage efficiency" 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jonathan Koomey is a Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Dr. Koomey is one of the leading international experts on electricity used by computers, office equipment, and data centers, and is the author or co-author of eight books and more than one hundred and fifty articles and reports on energy and environmental economics, technology, forecasting, and policy. He has also published extensively on critical thinking skills. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley, and an A.B. in History of Science from Harvard University. In 1993 he won the Fred Burgraff Award for Excellence in Transportation Research from the National Research Council's Transportation Research Board. He was named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 2004 and an AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow in January 2005. He has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, Science, Science News, American Scientist, Dow Jones News Wires, and the Christian Science Monitor, and has appeared on Nova/Frontline, BBC radio, CNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace, On the Media, Tech Nation, and the California Report, among others. His latest solo book is Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving , now in its third printing (and recently translated into Chinese). For more biographical details and a complete publications list, go to http://www.koomey.com.

Steven Schulz

"Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles" 

General Motors Advanced Technology Center

Steven Schulz is responsible for the development of control algorithms and software for both hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles. He received a BS degree (summa cum laude) from North Carolina State University and an MS degree from Virginia Tech; both in electrical engineering. Since 1992, he has been working on automotive electrical systems with the General Motors Advanced Technology Center in Torrance, California. He has been involved with automotive products from the ground-breaking EV-1 to the latest two-mode hybrid vehicle propulsion system currently available in the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon. The EV-1 was the first purpose-built modern electric vehicle in the United States. While participating in the EV-1 program, Mr. Schulz worked on the development of inductively coupled battery charger systems. For the last eight years, he focused on AC motors and controls. During this time, he was able to witness the evolution of the automotive electrical system with drastic improvements in cost, reliability, size and performance. Prior to working for GM, Mr. Schulz worked at Hughes Aircraft where he designed and analyzed spacecraft power supply systems. He has published over a dozen technical papers in the field of power electronics and holds 19 patents. In 2006, he received the Charles L. McCuen Special Achievement Award, presented by General Motors for extraordinary accomplishment considered to be highly beneficial to the success of the corporation.