IFEC 2025 Finals Conclude at Chroma ATE Headquarters

Chroma Provides Testing Equipment and Venue to Support Young Innovators at IFEC 2025 Finals

The final competition of the IEEE International Future Energy Challenge 2025 (IFEC 2025) was held from July 15 to 18 at Chroma ATE's headquarters in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The event was co-organized by National Taipei University of Technology and Chroma. Seven student teams from the United States, Germany, Belgium, Poland, India, Serbia, and Taiwan gathered for an exciting exchange of technology, innovation, and international collaboration.  

▲Student teams from seven countries and judges gathered at Chroma ATE's headquarters.

The theme for this year's competition—Isolated DC-DC Converter with Fast Transient Response and Low Noise—challenged students to tackle stability and interference suppression issues in advanced power conversion applications. The year-long competition began with 17 teams from 10 countries, narrowed to 12 teams from 9 countries at the midterm review, before the top 7 student teams traveled to Taiwan to present their results and showcase their technical capabilities. With the theme squarely in Chroma's wheelhouse, we were thrilled to help design the challenge and provide the venue and testing equipment for the final showdown.

Chroma provided its high-power DC electronic loads, DC power supplies, Chroma 8000 Automated Test System, power meters, and laboratory facilities to support industry-grade product testing and validation for the participating teams. These testing solutions are also widely used in industrial applications such as power delivery testing for AI servers and ultra-low-voltage testing for CPU/GPU VCORE power supplies.

▲Participating teams used Chroma testing equipment at Chroma's laboratories to verify their designs.

"Chroma has long been committed to advancing education and innovation," said Paul Ying, Chairman of the Chroma's Cultural and Educational Foundation.

"Seeing young people from around the globe taking on real-world engineering challenges with creativity and teamwork fills us with great excitement and pride. Hosting the IFEC 2025 finals at Chroma's headquarters is more than just co-organizing an event for us. It's also our way of giving back to the global technology and education community, and a great way to showcase the power of international collaboration and innovation."

The competition concluded with an awards banquet attended by distinguished guests from international academia, celebrating the students' technical achievements and innovative thinking. The IFEC 2025 Grand Prize was awarded to Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, with awards also going to the teams from Taiwan, Germany, Serbia, Belgium, and India. Congratulations to the winners!

▲Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, wins the IFEC 2025 Grand Prize.

Complete Award List:

• Grand Prize (US$10K) – Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Outstanding Performance Award ($5K) – National Formosa University, Taiwan
• Innovation Award ($3K) – Reutlingen University, Germany
• Educational Impact Award – University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Outstanding Technical Report Award – KU Leuven and UHasselt, Belgium
• Outstanding Presentation Award – University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Team Collaboration Excellence Award – Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, India

More than just a technical challenge, this event was an innovation showcase that sparked cross-border talent exchange while bridging education and industry. Through initiatives like IFEC 2025, Chroma continues to foster global talent and co-creation with industry, delivering on its brand vision: Empowering future technologies for a better world.

▲IFEC 2025 Awards Banquet – Group photo with guests and judges