Team H-Bridges placed 4th in the finals of this year’s IEEE International Future Energy Challenge, and won two awards – the Educational Impact Award and the Outstanding Presentation Award. The finals were held from July 15 to 19 in Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Final team rankings:

1.    Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
2.    ⁠National Formosa University, Taiwan
3.    ⁠Reutlingen University, Germany
4.    University of Belgrade, Serbia
5.    KU Leuven and UHasselt, Belgium
6.    ⁠⁠Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, India
7.    Utah State University, United States

The topic of this year’s IEEE IFEC competition was the development and design of a galvanically isolated DC-DC Converter with Fast Transient Response and Low Noise.