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Noriko Kawakami

Noriko Kawakami is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Noriko Kawakami rather than just read about it. In short: Noriko Kawakami (Japanese: 川上紀子) is a Japanese electrical engineer whose work involves high-voltage direct current storage, transmission, and conversion, including power conversion for wind turbines. She works in the Power Electronics Systems Division of TMEIC, a joint venture of Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric, as a senior fellow.

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Reference excerpt

Noriko Kawakami (Japanese: 川上紀子) is a Japanese electrical engineer whose work involves high-voltage direct current storage, transmission, and conversion, including power conversion for wind turbines. She works in the Power Electronics Systems Division of TMEIC, a joint venture of Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric, as a senior fellow.

Education and career Kawakami studied physics at Sophia University, graduating in 1982, and in the same year joined Toshiba. She moved to TMEIC in 2003, and earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2008 through the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She became president of the Industry Applications Society of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) from 2018 to 2020.

Recognition The IEEJ gave Kawakami their Technical Development Award in 2000 and their Transactions Prize in 2010. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2018 class of fellows, "for contributions to large-capacity power converters and applications". She was the 2022 honoree of the IEEE McMurray Award for Industry Achievements in Power Electronics, "for contributions to large-capacity power converters and their applications to industry and utility".

References

External links Noriko Kawakami publications indexed by Google Scholar

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Noriko Kawakami

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Noriko Kawakami ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Noriko Kawakami

In research: Noriko Kawakami appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Noriko Kawakami in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Noriko Kawakami is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Fellows of the IEEE, Japanese electrical engineers, Japanese women engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Noriko Kawakami outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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