Call for Papers

2008 SAE Power Systems Conference
November 11-13 2008
Hilton Bellevue
Seattle Washington, USA

The eighth biennial SAE Power Systems Conference will be held at the Hilton Bellevue in Seattle Washington , November 11-13 2008. This conference will highlight technology in transition, focusing on past successes, ongoing efforts and existing or perceived future impediments to fielding new technologies from the user perspective. The 2008 conference will include a focus on High Temperature Electronics, because electronics capable of operating well above the standard 125 ºC will be playing a pivotal role in next generation, high performance power systems for Defense, Aerospace, Automotive, Well-logging and Space applications. The conference planning committee intends to provide a forum that not only addresses the most recent technical achievements, but will also provide a mechanism for the technology and user communities to work together to ease the process of bringing these technologies to fruition. In order to provide more opportunities for technology transition and networking, the planning committee has assembled a diverse group of government and industry leaders to organize the technical program.

The planning committee under Technical Program Chair Robert R Hanson, Sr. Electrical Power Systems Specialist, Naval Air Systems Command, is seeking abstracts for the following sessions. The committee will also consider abstracts on other topics related to the scope of this conference.

• Advanced Batteries
• Advanced Power Systems
• Aircraft Batteries
• Commercial Power Systems
• Fuel Cells
• Ground Batteries
• Health Monitoring, Prognostics/Diagnostics for Power
• High Temperature Electronics
  • Commercial Applications
  • Electronics: Passives & Packaging
  • Active Devices
  • Power converters/Inverters & control
• Inter Agency Advance Power Group Overview (IAPG)
• Military Aircraft Power Management & Distribution
• Modeling, Simulation, Analysis & Control
• Power Generation for Aerospace Applications
• Power & Thermal Technologies for Directed Energy Storage
• Power Technologies for UAV's
• Space Energy Storage
• Space Power Generation
• Space Power Management & Distribution
• Thermal Management for Aerospace Power Systems & Application

Abstracts should be 300-500 words in length, present facts that are new and significant, and should include results achieved, if applicable. Abstracts, including paper title, author name(s), mailing address, telephone number, facsimile number, and email address, should be submitted no later than April 18, 2008. Abstracts may be submitted online at http://www.sae.org/power