Prof. Ion Boldea, currently with Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania and IEEE Fellow from 1996, has published extensively, in English, on the subject of rotary and linear electric machines and drives in the last 25 years. He is author or co-author of 13 books published in the U.S.A. and U.K and holds 20 Romanian patents and one American patent, which is now a commercial product. A member of IEEE-IAS EM and IDC committees, he has won 3 IEEE-IAS best-paper awards. He also holds the 1976 Engineering Award (with S.A. Nasar) of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Boldea led a team that developed and built an industrial prototype (inverter-fed linear induction, and, respectively, rotary induction-driven) subway system for 300 passengers and a linear homopolar synchronous motor-integrated, propulsion-suspension MAGLEV: Magnibus-01 of 4 tones on a 150-meter test track. He is an associate editor of EPCS (formerly EMPS) International Journal owned by Taylor and Francis and director of the new, Internet-only, Journal of Electrical Engineering (www.jee.ro). Professor Boldea has served as co-chairman of OPTIM-96, -98, -2000, and -2002 International – and IEEE-IAS-sponsored conferences. He is also co-founder of a small engineering company, which integrates yearly megawatts of variable speed drives in various industries. Prof. I. Boldea is a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences and can be reached at the following URL: boldea@lselinux.utt.ro".
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