IEEE Fellow Nomination

Switchgear Committee

Fellow

“ Election to IEEE Fellow grade is for personal technical contributions.” Invention, discovery, advancement of

the state of the art. Innovation, creativity, and importance.

Must be a Senior member to be nominated

Fellow Nomination Process

Nomination takes some effort (40 to 50 hours)Must have a detailed knowledge of the person (they usually must know they are being nominated)Switchgear Fellows Committee provides committee endorsement and promotes candidates

What Is the PES and IEEE Fellows Committee Looking for?

Three categories Engineer Technical Leader Educator

“a concise and accurate description of technical contributions is of paramount importance”

Technical Contributions

SignificantDocumented Technical papers (single or lead

author) Patents Standards contributions (w.g. chair,

standards medallion, prize standard, etc.)

How to Apply

Know Your Audience/competitionNo blanks on the applicationWell written, strongly writtenNo marginal references

Competition

Professors and researchers make up a majority of FellowsNot uncommon for a candidate to have 60 publications

Process

Application and ref/endorsement forms send by nominatorReferences and endorsements submitted (March 15th)PES Fellows CommitteeIEEE Fellows Committee

2002 IEEE Fellows Committee

Dr. Leonard L. Grigsby - ChairDr. Peter W. Sauer - Vice Chair

Ben Johnson - ExCom Coordinator

Members:Dr. Florencio AboytesDr. Anthony P. Ambler

Dr. Robert W. BrodersenDr. Herman W. Dommel

Dr. Richard J. DoviakDr. Daniel M. Fleetwood

Dr. W. Kent FuchsDr. Georgios GiannakisDr. J. Scott Goldstein

Dr. David G. GoodenoughDr. Robert E. Hebner, Jr.

Dr. Kees A.S. ImminkProf. Rokuya Ishii

Dr. Kiyoo Itoh

Dr. Jose Antonio JardiniProf. Barry W. Johnson

Dr. Sherra E. KernsDr. Rajinder P. KhoslaDr. Scott KirkpatrickDr. Stuart A. Long

Dr. Toshiaki MasuharaDr. Roger D. Pollard

Dr. Mohindar Singh SachdevDr. Marwan A. Simaan

Dr. James A. SmithDr. Warren L. StutzmanDr. Earl Swartzlander, Jr.Dr. David A. Thompson

Dr. Rodger Ziemer

Application

Personal dataEducationProfessional historyCitationNominatorIndividual contributionsEvidence of technical accomplishments

Technical publicationsPatentsOtherTechnical presentationsIEEE activities and awardsNon-IEEE awards, offices, licenses, etc

Fellow Grade References

5 to 8 (get 8)MUST be all outstandingKnown referencesTalk to everyone and find out how they will grade the personMake sure they have sent in the reference on time

Fellows Reference 4. On the basis of the work of the candidate, please indicate whether or not, in your judgement, the candidate meets

the requirements for Fellow grade. What distinguishes his/her contributions from the norm?  

 Yes. Better quality work 

 This candidate far exceeds the requirements for Fellow grade. The innovative new concepts in equipment and testing methods have caused major changes in our industry greatly improving the reliability of high voltage equipment and reducing the cost of testing. He has had a positive influence and was a significant contributor to all high voltage standards developed by the committee for the past 20 years. He has organized and taught the tutorial for the committee chaired panel sessions, etc.  

 5. Please furnish below any additional data not appearing on the nomination form that you feel will be helpful to the

Fellow Committee.  

 None

  Mr. X is active in interesting young people in engineering. He is a tutor for math and science students students at his local high school and is a volunteer for the high school science fair judging. In 1996-1998 he was a member of his local school board. Beyond his very significant technical contributions to our industry, he has extended his impact beyond our industry to his community.

 7.On the basis of the candidate’s work in the field indicate a score in the box below.

  Qualified 16-50

Highly Qualified 51-85 30 100+_ Extraordinarily Qualified 86-100

 

Marginally Qualified 0-15

Endorsement/society

Endorsement is technically optional This is one more reference May carry more weight as it is

independent Vital if committee activities are used

as a portion of the justification

Wording

Strongly supporting. Joe Smith has worked on many

standards. Joe Smith was the chairman of the

working group which developed C37xxx, and a major contributor to the development of C37 XYY and XZZ. The innovative new concepts he developed in these standards have revolutionized circuit breaker testing.

How I Can Help!

Give me an outline of the proposed candidates qualifications and I can tell you if I think he/she can be competitive.I will edit your application and suggest Fellows referencesI will write an endorsement