CPES Membership Structure

The CPES industrial consortium offers the ideal forum for networking with leading-edge companies and top-notch researchers and provides the best mechanism to stay abreast of technological developments in power electronics.  The consortium's multi-tiered structure is designed to meet the varying needs of power electronics industries.  

Principal Plus Members (annual contribution - $50,000) gain tangible benefits via research collaboartion with CPES as graduate student fellowship sponsors or CPES Power Management Consortium (PMC) members.  They have easy access to cutting-edge IP advantage via automatic IPPF* (Intellectual Property Protection Fund).

Principal Members (annual contribution - $25,000) are well positioned to influence and guide CPES as Industry Advisory Board (IAB) members.  They also have cutting-edge IP advantage via automatic IPPF* (Intellectual Property Protection Fund). 

Associate Members (annual contribution - $10,000) gain the competitive edge, not only through easy access to CPES research results, researchers, and state-of-the-art facilities, but also opportunities for technical exchanges and continuing education to stay updated on new technologies.

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*IPPF

IPPF is a unique IP access mechanism that provides extraordinary IP advantage to all Principal-level members. IPPF is available automatically, at no additional cost, to Principal Plus and Principal members. IPPF members meet quarterly via telecon with inventors to discuss invention disclosures and jointly decide which technologies to protect, with patenting costs covered by IPPF. Once a technology is protected, IPPF members are granted a royalty-free, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the technology. IPPF is applicable only to technologies developed under core research by CPES-VT researchers.