What our members are saying about PowerAmerica

"PowerAmerica has advanced John Deere’s wide bandgap power electronics R&D work by more than five years." -John Deere

"The networking opportunities with our suppliers, customers and university partners are invaluable. This has led to other collaborations between USCi and companies event outside of PowerAmerica work." -USCi

"The credibility of affiliation with PowerAmerica has also helped AgileSwitch develop strong working relationships with global WBG module manufacturers." -AgileSwitch

"PowerAmerica has been one of the best networked and active organizations that I’ve ever been a part of. They are so focused on aligning goals that it automatically brings folks from all over the industry together in collaboration. We have already made more than a few strategic business relationships while in the membership of PowerAmerica." -AtomPower

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Jim LeMunyon

Membership & Industry Relations

Jim_LeMunyon@ncsu.edu

Membership

PowerAmerica provides value to its members through acceleration of their wide bandgap concept-to-prototype cycle. By accelerating the market introduction of wide bandgap products, industry members grow their business, and university members benefit through collaboration with industry.

Some of the benefits PowerAmerica offers to its members include:

  • The best source of business and technical information about developments in the wide bandgap technology ecosystem

  • Device design to member’s specifications and applications, and cost-effective device manufacturing in high volume US fabs

  • Custom testing/reliability and module development

  • Timely access to PowerAmerica device bank engineering samples

  • WBG ecosystem benefits such as technology roadmaps, industry perspectives and networking

  • Funding of projects to demonstrate the benefits of SiC and GaN devices in power electronics systems

  • Education and workforce development, including access to short courses, highly trained personnel and wide bandgap experts

Request for more information

Are you interested in getting more information about becoming a member or about PowerAmerica? Please fill out the attached form and we will have our Membership and Industry relations manager reach out to you!