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Mr. Pierre A.
Thollot
1997 William E. Newell Power
Electronics Award Recipient
Pierre A. Thollot (M 75-SM 86-F 94) received his BSEE degree from
The City College of New York in 1962. He joined the National
Aeronautics & Space Administrationís Cleveland Lewis
Research Center, where in 1968 he became head of the Brayton Controls
and Electrical Components Section responsible for power generation
and control subsystems. While at NASA, he was appointed Chief of a
newly formed Power Electronics Branch within the Spacecraft
Technology Division in 1971, and later, Deputy Project Manager,
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Project Office. In 1981 he left NASA to
join Sundstrand Corp. as Research Engineering Manager responsible for
Aerospace advanced prototype high power electronic processing,
management and distribution projects. Subsequently, his
responsibilities as Director of the Electrical Research organization
included direction of three technical departments. Prior to his
retirement in 1996 he held the position of Chief Research Engineer at
Sundstrand. Not willing to fully retire, Pierre and Jenny moved to
Denver, to be closer to several of their children /grandchildren, and
started a small consulting business called Aerospace - Electric Power
Systems Application Technology.
Thollot's career includes 30 years of voluntary service serving on
numerous industry and government committees and active participation
in various professional organizations, including serving on the Board
of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
and as President of the Power Electronics Society. In 1994 he was
made a Fellow of the IEEE. With other coinventors, his work has lead
to seven U. S. Patents, and he is author of over a dozen technical
reports, founder and first chairman of the International Council on
Power Electronic Cooperation, and Chief Editor of the first (1993)
IEEE Technology Update Seriesî of books titled Power
Electronics Technology and Applications.
Source: Flyer from Award Presentation
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