WUT students in the semi-finals of IFEC competition
A team of students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology has qualified for the semi-finals of the prestigious International Future Energy Challenge
A team of students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology has qualified for the semi-finals of the prestigious International Future Energy Challenge. The competition will take place on 22 March 2026 in San Antonio, United States, bringing together the best academic teams from around the world working on innovative solutions in the field of power electronics.
The WUT team consists of Adam Cieplak, Piotr Guz, Oskar Kędzierski, Bartosz Majczyna, Olaf Osiński, Jakub Sokołowski, Jakub Sztencel and Michał Zakrzewski. The work is carried out under the supervision of Jan Sitnik, MSc.
The students are developing a bidirectional onboard charger for an electric vehicle. As part of their preparation for the competition, they carried out simulation studies and proposed two distinct solutions to the research problem. This approach was positively received by the IFEC jury, which noted in its feedback the innovative assumptions arising from the parallel analysis of both the classical two-stage solution and the less commonly explored single-stage architecture.
The research carried out by the students is supported financially by companies from the power electronics sector: Trumpf Huettinger, Infineon Technologies and Rohde & Schwarz.
About the competition
The International Future Energy Challenge is an international student competition held every two years, dedicated to innovation, energy savings and the efficient use of electrical energy. Its aim is to support the development of innovative solutions in the fields of power engineering and power electronics, as well as to promote the rational and efficient use of electricity. Projects submitted by student teams are evaluated on the basis of technical documentation and hardware test results.