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The international 2003 Future Energy Challenge official announcement is now available through the www.energychallenge.org web site. Student teams from anywhere in the world are invited to become involved. The participation is by proposal. Schools interested in the Challenge need to provide a Letter of Intent by April 1, 2002. They will then receive a complete Request for Proposal, and proposals are to be submitted by May 31, 2002.

The January 2002 newsletter is now posted in PDF format.

Join us for APEC 2002 in Dallas, March 11-14. Link here, and look for registration information.

Congratulations to the new 2002 class of IEEE Fellows. Fellow is the highest grade of membership. Each year, less than 0.1% of IEEE members are elected to the grade of Fellow based on a nomination and rigorous review process.

The new Fellows who are members of the Power Electronics Society are:

Barry C. Brusso, S&C Electric Co, Chicago

"For leadership in industrial applications of environmental, health and life safety systems."

Gerald-Andre Pierre Capolino, University of Picardie, Amiens, France

"For contributions to modeling, simulation and control techniques applied to power electronics and electrical drives."

Thomas G. Habetler, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

"For contributions to electric motor control and condition monitoring."

Allen R. Hefner, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

"For contributions to the theory and modeling of power semiconductor devices."

John R. Holmquist, Federal Way, WA

"For the implementation of advanced electrical technologies in the pulp and paper industry."

Praveen K. Jain, Queen's University, Kingston, ONT, Canada

"For contributions to efficient high frequency power converter systems."

Atsuo Kawamura, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

"For contributions to real-time digital feedback control of PWM inverters and its application to UPS."

Toshiaki Yachi, NTT Telecommunication Energy Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan

"For contributions to power semiconductor and micro-magnetic devices."

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