1995 Activities
When Phil Hower indicated he could not continue in the capacity
of as History Chair during 1996 I was asked by Tom Jahns to resume
the position. I accepted based on a plan for using the World Wide
Web and our new society server as a repository for PELS historical
material.
1996 Activities and Plans
The IEEE Power Electronics Society History page went active on
January 14, 1996 at the Internet World Wide Web URL:
http://www.cyberg8t.com/smpstech/history/index.html
Plans call for transferring the site to the PELS web server at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University when the new
society server is operational and secure directory access is
established.
[Note: Moved to new Server February 1997
http://www.ieee-pels.vt.edu/HTMLpage/PELS/TEXT/index.htm]
The initial thrust of the site is on the William E. Newell
Power Electronics Award awardees. Thomas G. Wilson, Sr. is
providing material. I also have several "As I remember it."
letters and I believe Phil Hower has similar material, including
tapes, that I want to include early on.
A to-do list for activities this year, in no particular order,
includes:
- Cull existing archives for pertinent material for Web
posting.
- Scan in photographs.
- Actively solicit "As I remember it." letters.
- Get permissions from IEEE to include the full text of some
articles such as Burns' and Kassakian's PELS Transaction
articles on our history.
- Cull our newsletter for pertinent material for Web
posting.
- Encourage members to be alert to capture, retain, and
forward historical materials to the historian.
I encourage others to make suggestions for this to-do list and
and the Web site as it progresses.
Respectively submitted by
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- Jerrold Foutz
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- IEEE PELS Historian
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- February 1996