Welcome message from the symposium chairs

It is a great pleasure and honor to extend our sincere welcome on behalf of the Organizing Committee to all of you who are participating at the 8th IEEE Symposium on Diagnostics of Electrical Machines, Power Electronics & Drives (SDEMPED´2011) in Bologna, Italy. This edition of SDEMPED will go ahead with the tradition started in 1997 in Carry-Le-Rouet (France) and continued in Gijon (Spain 1999), Grado (Italy 2001), Atlanta (USA 2003), Vienna (2005 Austria), Cracow (Poland 2007) and Cargèse (France 2009). SDEMPED is a well established biennial event which attracts regularly friends and colleagues both from industry and academia.