General Chair: ■ IFEC Introduction Yu-Chen (Steven) Liu, National IFEC is an international undergraduate student competition in the Taipei University of Technology design of power electronics systems, focusing on effective use of electrical energy and driving innovation. The competition is open to General Co-Chair: college and university student teams from recognized engineering Cheng-Yu Tang, National Taipei programs worldwide. University of Technology ■ Topic: Isolated DC-DC Converters with Fast Transient Response and Low Noise Webmaster: Preliminary Specifications: Tsu-Chieh Hsu, National Taipei Input Voltage: 400 Vdc Output Voltage: Programmable 20Vdc~150Vdc (Voltage accuracy: <0.5% University of Technology @10 PLC aperture time) Output Current: 10Adc max at all output voltage Local arrangement Chair: Rated Output Power: 1.5kW@150V, 600W@60V, 200W@20V Transient Response of Load Change (0A ↔ 10A @ 20V, 60V, 150V. Typical Ying-Ting Huang, National rising/falling time of load current is about 20μs): Output voltage recovers Taipei University of Technology within 100µs to ±200mV settling band. Step Response of Output Voltage: 20V→60V→150V: rising time<100us (No Load) Local arrangement Co-Chair: 150V→60V→20V→Turn OFF: falling time<1ms (No Load) Load Regulation of Output Voltage: <0.1% @ 20V, 60V, 150V Katherine Kim, National Taiwan Ripple & Noise of Output Voltage: 200mVp-p/30mVrms @ 20V, 60V, 150V, University (Full load, Set oscilloscope with 20MHz Measurement Bandwidth.) Conversion Efficiency (include all power consumptions to sustain the operation of power converters.): Output voltage=150V, >92% (@25% load), Publicity Chair: >96% (@50% load), >95% (@100% load) Lakshmi Ravi, ABB Power Density: > 1.6W/cm3 ■ Final Competition Location Treasurer/Finance Chair: Chroma ATE Inc., Taoyuan City, Taiwan Ching-Jan Chen, National ■ Participation Taiwan University Interested teams must submit a proposal to ifec2025@gmail.com before the proposal deadline. Each Proposal will be judged by a distinguished panel of volunteer experts in the field of power electronics. Schools with Steering Committee Chair: successful proposals will be notified of their qualification for the next stage Jason Lai, Virginia Tech of the competition. The deadline for each period will be posted on the IFEC website. The top teams will be invited to a competition event in the summer of 2025. There will be a Grand Prize of $10,000 and three Sponsored by: additional awards granted at $5,000, $3000 and $1,000 each. Important Notes: Each university can support only one team. Each team must have at least 4 members. Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged. Graduate students are not excluded from participation but must only provide high level support. ■ Deadlines and Proposal Submission Email Address Workshop at ECCE 2024 Oct. 21, 2024 Proposal Deadline Nov. 15, 2024 Please email the proposal to ifec2025@gmail.com Notification of Acceptance Dec. 15, 2024 Workshop at APEC’2025 Mar. 16, 2025 Notification of Finalists TBA Final Competition TBA