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PISCATAWAY, N.J., 3 June - Bimal K. Bose, Condra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professional society, at its annual Honors Ceremony on 22 June in Montreal.

Dr. Bose will receive the IEEE Lamme Medal for his contributions to the advancement of power electronics and electrical machine drives. The award, which includes a gold medal, $10,000, a bronze replica and a certificate, is sponsored by the IEEE Foundation and the Westinghouse Foundation.

Dr. Bose has written more than 125 papers and holds 18 U.S. patents in power electronics and electrical machine drives. In 1987, he joined the University of Tennessee and also began serving as chief scientist of the PERI Power Electronics Applications Center in Knoxville. In the last nine years, he contributed to advances in resonant-link power conversion, converter fault investigation and fault tolerant control, sensorless control of AC drives for electric vehicle propulsion, and applications of expert systems, fuzzy logic and neural networks in power electronic systems and drives. He also served as senior advisor of Beijing Power Electronics R&D Center, China, and was awarded an honorary professorship at Shanghai University, China.

Previously, Dr. Bose spent 11 years with General Electric Corporate Research and Development where his research included microprocessor control of DC and AC drives, control development for different types of AC motors, and extensive control development for electric and hybrid vehicle drives. Prior to this, he organized the power electronics program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He began his career as a faculty member at the Bengal Engineering College in Calcutta, India. He also has worked as a consultant to industry.

Dr. Bose received a bachelor's degree from Bengal Engineering College, Calcutta University, a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a doctorate from Calcutta University, all in electrical engineering. He has written and edited five books in power electronics and electrical machine drives. He also initiated Power Electronics for Universal Brotherhood, an international organization which promotes humanitarian activities within the power electronics community.

Dr. Bose is an IEEE Life Fellow and in 1993 was awarded the IEEE Industry Application Society's Outstanding Achievement Award for his contributions in the applications of electricity to industry. In 1994 he was honored with the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society's Eugene Mittelmann Award for research and development in power electronics and lifetime achievement in motor drives and the IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award for outstanding achievements in power electronics and drives technology. He was also awarded the Mouat Gold Medal by Calcutta University for his research contributions. He also has received numerous other IEEE prize paper and service awards.

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