【Introduction】

The Summer School on Key Technologies for Advanced Electric Power Equipment will be organized by School of Electrical Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University. The course features a series of lectures delivered by renowned international experts and young scholars in the field of electric power equipment. It is open to undergraduate students (freshmen to juniors) of Xi’an Jiaotong university offline. Other students can only participate online.

Participants will engage in about 16 hours of intensive lectures. Students will learn about cutting-edge advancements in electric power equipment technology through an introduction to the School of Electrical Engineering and a tour of the State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment.

Important Notice for Registered Students:

Please join the designated QQ Group (Group ID: 363503918 and modify your group nickname to follow the format: “Institution + Full Name”.

Dates: August 30th to September 3th, 2025

【Lecturer Profile】

Frede Blaabjerg (S'86–M'88–SM'97–F'03) was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he got the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998 at AAU Energy. From 2017 he became a Villum Investigator. He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania in 2017 and Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Estonia in 2018.

His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, Power-2-X, power quality and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 800 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of ten monographs and editor of twenty books in power electronics and its applications eg. the series (4 volumes) Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems published by Academic Press/Elsevier.

René Peter Paul SMEETS

KEMA Labs of CESI Group, Arnhem, the Netherlands

Rene Peter Paul Smeets received a PhD degree for research work on switchgear in 1987. Until 1995, he was an assistant professor at Eindhoven University. During 1991 he worked with Toshiba Corporation in Japan on vacuum switchgear. In 1995, he joined KEMA, the Netherlands. At present, he is retired from KEMA Laboratories of CESI Group, but still active as an independent advisor. From 2001 - 2013 he was part-time professor at Eindhoven University, the Netherlands. In 2013 he became adjunct professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, after having been connected with this university since 1987.

Dr. Smeets is member of various study/advisory committees of CIGRE after being in the lead of working groups in the field of emerging switching technologies such as HV vacuum switchgear, HVDC switchgear and SF6 alternatives. He was convener of two maintenance teams in IEC on standardization of high-voltage switchgear. In 2008 he was elected Fellow of IEEE and in 2022 he was awarded a Fellowship of CIGRE. He conducted numerous webinars and trainings on ‘switching technogy in T&D systems’ for the manufacturing and utilty industry in various parts of the world.

Since 2008 he is chairman of the “Current Zero Club”, a scientific study group on current interruption. Dr. Smeets published and edited three books and authored over 300 international papers on testing and high-voltage switching technology in power systems. He received nine international awards.

Prof. Akiko KUMADA

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Akiko Kumada received the B. Eng., M. Eng., and Dr. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1994, 1996, and 1999, respectively. Since April 2017, she has been in the University of Tokyo as a professor of electrical engineering. She currently serves as vice dean of the graduate school of engineering at the University of Tokyo. Since 2024, she has been serving as a vice president of administration of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society.

She directs high voltage laboratory in the University of Tokyo, and is conducting research related to high-voltage insulation and current interruption technology for the development of high-voltage DC transmission networks and the upgrading of existing AC transmission networks.

Yasunori Tanaka

Kanazawa University, Japan

Yasunori Tanaka received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Nagoya University, Japan, in 1993, 1995, and 1998, respectively. In April 1998, he joined Kanazawa University, Japan, as a Research Associate. From August 2002 to March 2010, he served as an Associate Professor at the university. During this period, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California, San Diego (2005, 2006, and 2007), and at the University of Toronto (2007). Since April 2010, he has been a Professor at Kanazawa University, where he currently serves as the Head of the Division of Electronic, Information, and Communication Engineering in the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology. His research interests encompass the fundamentals and applications of both high-pressure and low-pressure thermal plasmas, employing both numerical and experimental approaches. His work focuses on areas such as nanopowder synthesis, plasma source development, plasma arc cutting, surface modification, diamond growth, and arc interruption phenomena in gas/vacuum circuit breakers.

Bang-Wook Lee

Hanyang University, South Korea

Bang Wook Lee is a Professor, School of Electrical engineering of Hanyang university Korea.

He received B.S, M.S. and PH.D degree from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea in 1991, 1993, 1998. Before he joined Hanyang University, he worked for LS Industrial Systems as a senior researcher for 10 years in the research field of high voltage electric equipment. After joining Hanyang University as a professor since 2008. His main research interests include HVDC insulation design, HVDC protection systems, transient phenomena analysis and the development of electrical equipment for HVDC system. He is now the member of CIGRE SC D1 representing Korea. And he also actively works for several working groups in CIGRE.

【Admission Information】

Open to the program caters to a wide variety of audiences, including undergraduates, graduates, researchers and engineers worldwide with an interest in nuclear engineering, energy systems, or related disciplines.

【Registration】

Students who intend to register for this course please click the registration link or scan the QR code below to register.

https://docs.qq.com/form/page/DUHhBTGJKS2lGRWpC

【Contacts】

Phone：029-82668632

Email：lqsun@mail.xjtu.edu.cn