IEEE PELS - Distinguished Service Award

Description

The Distinguished Service Award is to honor long and distinguished service to the welfare of the Power Electronics Society at an exceptional level of dedication and achievement. The prize consists of a cash award of $1,200 and an engraved plaque to be presented at the PELS Awards Banquet customarily held at the annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference. All members of the Power Electronics Society are eligible. The basis for judging candidates for the award includes outstanding contributions over a substantial time period encompassing creative and invigorating leadership of the Society, exceptional administrative and managerial accomplishments on behalf of the Society, identification of new technologies within the scope of the Society and nurturing activities to support these emerging technologies, initiation of innovative programs to encourage wider participation in the full spectrum of Society activities, and the general communication and advocacy of power electronics technology to the technical community as a whole.

Nomination Form

Adobe portable document format (Service_Nom.pdf)
Microsoft Word format (Service_Nom.doc)

List of Awardees

2001 - William M. Portnoy
2000 - Richard G. Hoft
1999 - Thomas G. Wilson, Sr.
1998 - John G. Kassakian
1997 - Harry A. Owen, Jr.

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