Acknowledgments

I thank all the professors, managers, and colleagues who helped my personal development as an engineer and facilitated acquiring the knowledge shared within this book. Their leadership and vision in power electronics have aided in depicting the cutting-edge trends in modern high power switching converters, and I hope this book will make a positive impact in the formation of a new generation of power electronics engineers. It is the role of leaders to find other leaders and to unlock for them the possibility of making a positive impact.

I am entirely grateful to Professors Mihai Lucanu and Dimitrie Alexa who encouraged and supervised my beginnings at the Technical University of Iasi, Romania. Many of the research results published in this book stem from educational programs attended under their direction. Special thanks to Professors Venkatachari Rajagopalan (Canada) and Frede Blaabjerg (Denmark) who introduced me to the IEEE and the world of highly competitive modern technologies.

I thank all my colleagues from US industry including Kaushik Rajashekara, James Walters, T.V. Sriram, Fani Gunawan, and Balarama Murty of Delphi Automotive; Toshio Takahashi, David Tam, Brian Pelly, HuaHuu Nguyen, and Eric Person of International Rectifier; Ted Lesster, Bogdan Borowy, William Bonnice, Geoffrey Lansberry, and Evgeny Humansky of SatCon Technology Corporation; and James Worden, Viggo Selchau-Hansen, Lance Haines, Beat Arnet, Lu Jiang, and Don Lucas of Azure Dynamics/Solectria.