CALL FOR PAPERS SCOPE: The purpose of the first International Conference on Power Engineering – Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG2007) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners from all over the world, interested in the advances of power systems (energy and electrical drives). Papers describing original work are invited in any of the scientific areas of the conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Authors with experimental prototypes are encouraged to bring them along to demonstrate their performance. An exhibition area, with technical facilities, will be considered. The proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore database TOPICS: • Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution • Power Electronics, Systems and Applications • Electrical Machines and Adjustable Speed Drives • Renewable Energy Sources and Technology • Education IMPORTANT DATES: Full paper submission: October 16, 2006 Authors’ notification: January 15, 2007 Final paper submission and registration: February 19, 2007 SUBMISSIONS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in the form of full papers (max. of 6 Proceedings pages). Sponsored by : Technical Co-Sponsored by : Cooperation: (Chapter Portugal) Organization: All information at: http://www.est.ips.pt/powereng POWERENG Secretariat Campus do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal. Estefanilha. 2910-761 Setúbal. Portugal. Tel:+351265790000 Fax:+351265721869 [email protected] ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Honorary Chair: Bimal K. Bose (University of Tennessee, USA) Conference Chair: Armando Pires (IPSetúbal, Portugal) Program Co-Chairs: Luis Gomes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Vitor Pires and João Martins (IPSetúbal, Portugal) Organizing Co-Chairs: Sousa Martins and Paulo Santos (IPSetúbal, Portugal) ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Carlo Cecati (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Okyay Kaynak (Bogazici University, Turkey) Leopoldo G. Franquelo (University of Sevilla, Spain) Karel Jezernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia) António Dente (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) Leão Rodrigues (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Bimal K. Bose (University of Tennessee, USA) Marian Kazmierkowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) R. Krishnan (Virginia Tech, USA) Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi (University of Washington, USA) Carlos Couto (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Vladimiro Miranda (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alfio Consoli Antoni Szumanowski António Gomes Martins António Joyce António Marques Cardoso Ashwin Khambadkone Benoit Robyns Carlos Cabrita Chandrabhan Sharma David Michael Rowe De Fornel Bernard Edson Watanabe Emmanouel Karapidakis Federico Barrero Fernando Coito Fernando Silva Francesco Profumo Francis Labrique Frede Blaabjerg Giuseppe Buja H. Bulent Ertan Horia Hedesiu João Palma João Santana Joeri Van Mierlo John Fletcher Italy Poland Portugal Portugal Portugal Singapore France Portugal West Indies United Kingdom France Brazil Greece Spain Portugal Portugal Italy Belgium Denmark Italy Turkey Romania Portugal Portugal Belgium United Kingdom José R. Cedeño L. G. Rolim Lars Norum Luis Borges da Silva Marcian Cirstea Marco Liserre Maria I. Valla Mo-Yuen Chow Nesimi Ertugrul Oriol Boix Aragonès Paolo Tenti Paulo Branco Peças Lopes Renato Rizzo Rui Castro Seta Bogosyan Stanislaw Sieniutycz Sucena Paiva Teck Seng Low Tenreiro Machado Ventim Neves Walter Suemitsu Wlodzimierz Koczara Xinghuo Yu Yoichi Hori Puerto Rico Brazil Norway Brazil United Kingdom Italy Argentina USA Australia Spain Italy Portugal Portugal Italy Portugal USA Poland Portugal Singapure Portugal Portugal Brazil Poland Australia Japan VENUE: The conference will be held in the campus of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. The city of Setúbal (about 90,000 inhabitants) sits by the Atlantic Ocean and on the right bank of the Sado River, in front of Tróia, approximately 50 km to the south of the Portuguese capital - Lisboa - where the nearest airport is located. Setúbal offers its visitors an unforgettable environment: Dauphins and other ocean life, monuments and flaring landscapes are conjugated with important industrial companies.