New Awards for 1997
Tom Wilson, Sr., PELS Awards Chair
Three new Society Awards are scheduled for presentation in 1997. They are the Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award to be presented for outstanding achievement in the field of power electronics by an IEEE member in any grade who is less than 35 years of age as of January 1, 1997. The second new award is the Power Electronics Society Distinguished Service Award to be presented for exceptional dedication and service to the Society over a substantial time period. The third is the Transactions Prize Paper Award to be presented to the authors of the three papers judged by the Associate Editors to be the best papers published in the PELS Transactions in 1996. These new awards are in addition to the highly esteemed William E. Newell Award which has been presented for the past twenty years to an individual judged to be outstanding in the multidisciplinary field of power electronics.
The Chairman of the Awards Committee, Tom Wilson, Sr., reports that the first two of these new awards have been approved by the TAB Awards and Recognition Committee (TABARC) and by the Technical Activities Board (TAB), and that the nomination and selection processes are well underway. The third new award, the PELS Transactions Paper Award, is currently awaiting review by TABARC. It is anticipated that all three new awards will be presented for the first time at the PELS Annual Awards Ceremony to be held in conjunction with PESC '97 this June in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
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