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A Global View of Electrification By Saifur Rahman

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elcome to the inaugural issue of IEEE Electrification Magazine. This is a quarterly magazine to

be published in March, June, September, and December of each year. This magazine, which has a global view of electrification in all types of transportation and off-grid applications, is designed to fill the need of engineers in the industry as well as policymakers who require information on technology, use cases, and field experience in electrification in the 21st century. This magazine is financially cosponsored by three IEEE technical Societies—the IEEE Power & Energy Society, the IEEE Industry Applications Society, and the IEEE Power Electronics Society. In addition, it is technically cosponsored by three other IEEE Societies—the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, the IEEE Vehicle Transportation Society, and the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society—as well as the IEEE Transportation Electrification Initiative (TEI). We have assembled a highly qualified e ­ ditorial board comprised of ten members from academia, government, and industry in different parts of the world. Each topic of the magazine—electric vehicles, electric ships, electric trains, electric planes, and off-grid electrification—is looked after by one ­editor and one coeditor. Their contact information is provided to the right. They are the primary points of contact for authors who wish to submit articles for consideration in IEEE Electrification ­Magazine. This first issue of the magazine has the following six articles covering electric trains, electric ships, electric vehicles, and microgrids. The authors of these articles, who are from industry as well as academia, are experts in their fields and provide great insight into the technology, best practices, and customer acceptance issues: 1) “The Dependence on Mechanical Design in Railway Electrification: Focusing on the AC Perspective” (continued on page 70)

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Editorial board Saifur Rahman Editor-in-Chief Virginia Tech Virginia, USA [email protected] Iqbal Husain Editor, Electric Vehicles North Carolina State University North Carolina, USA [email protected] Eduard Muljadi Coeditor, Electric Vehicles NREL: Wind Research Colorado, USA [email protected] Herb Ginn Editor, Electric Ships Universitiy of South Carolina South Carolina, USA [email protected] Robert Cuzner Coeditor, Electric Ships DRS Power and Control Technologies Wisconsin, USA RobertMCuzner@drs. com Eduardo Pilo de la Fuente Editor, Electric Trains EPRail Research and Consulting Spain [email protected] Jose Conrado Martine Coeditor, Electric Trains Directcion de Estrategia y Desarrollo Spain [email protected] Bulent Sarlioglu Editor, Electric Planes University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, USA [email protected]

Mohammad Shahidehpour Editor, Off-Grid Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, USA [email protected] Steve Pullins Coeditor, Off-Grid Horizon Energy Group Tennessee, USA spullins@horizonenergy group.com IEEE Periodicals Magazines Department 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA Craig Causer Managing Editor Janet Dudar Senior Art Director Gail A. Schnitzer Assistant Art Director Theresa L. Smith Production Coordinator Felicia Spagnoli Advertising Production Manager Peter M. Tuohy Production Director Dawn Melley Editorial Director Fran Zappulla Staff Director, Publishing Operations advertising sales Parker Marshall James G. Elliott Co. Inc. 626 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 500 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Tel: +1 213 596 7209 Fax: +1 213 624 0997 p.marshall@ jamesgelliott.com

Christine Ross Coeditor, Electric Planes Rolls-Royce Corp Indiana, USA Christine.AH.Ross@ rolls-royce.com

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2) “Faster than a Speeding Bullet: An Overview of J­apanese High-Speed Rail Technology and Electrification” 3) “Courting and Sparking: Wooing Consumers’ Interest in the EV Market” 4) “Shipboard Solid-State Protection: Overview and ­Applications” 5) “Cutting Campus Energy Costs with Hierarchical

Technology Leaders PES vice president for publications and inaugural editor-in-chief for IEEE Electrification Magazine, for his leadership and perseverance in getting this publication approved and

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years of valuable, hands-on career experience. Since 2011, the program has supported a total of 265 scholars attending 109 universities, including Ivy League colleges, flagship state universities, and prestigious engineering colleges across the United States. The list of 2013 scholarship recipients will be announced in ­October. The program has provided US$642,000 in scholarships and has raised more than US$5 million in cash and pledges from donors to the program. The IEEE PES Scholarship Initiative is made possible by donations to the IEEE PES Scholarship Fund of the

Control: The Economical and Reliable Operation of a Microgrid” 6) “Cutting the Cord: Static and Dynamic Inductive Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles.” The September and December 2013 issues of the magazine will cover multiple topics addressing various transportation and off-grid issues. Beginning in 2014, each issue will

focus on a particular topic. For example, the first three issues in 2014 will focus on electric vehicles, microgrids, and electric ships. For future issues, we welcome guest editors to propose articles on particular themes covering our topics of interest. Please contact me or any of the other editors or coeditors if you are interested in proposing a topic for a special issue of this magazine. 

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off the ground. Special thanks to the editorial board of this magazine and our PES staff for their efforts. I encourage you to read these articles and learn about the happenings

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in electrification in our engineering space. It is an exciting time to be part of the electrification solution.