IEEE Power & Energy Society
2014 General Meeting
Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, July 29, 2013 Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
National Harbor, MD
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Awards and Recognition Don Morrow, Chair
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Dan Ward
IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power
Distribution Engineering
Bruce Wollenberg
IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power System
Engineering Award
Steven D. Pekarek
IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical
Energy Conversion Award
Anil Pahwa
IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky
Distribution Automation Award
Marcio Szechtman
IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS and
Custom Power Award
Gören Andersson
IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering
Power Educator Award
A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos
IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer
Award
Mark Lauby
IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System
Dynamics and Control Award
Wenyuan Li
IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System
Reliability Award
Christopher Root
IEEE Power & Energy Society Leadership in
Power Award
Leo Grigsby
IEEE Power & Energy Society Lifetime
Achievement Award
Ward T. Jewell
IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar
Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award
Dennis Woodford
IEEE PES Uno Lamm HVDC Award
Shay Bahramirad
IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power
Award
Mariesa Crow
IEEE PES Technical Committee Awards
Edwin C. Carlsen
IEEE PES Chapter Awards
PROGRAM
Welcome: Barbara Tyran General Chair, PES 2014 General Meeting Presiding: Miroslav M. Begovic President, IEEE Power & Energy Society Introductions: Don Morrow Chair, PES Awards & Recognition Committee IEEE AWARDS Presented by Peter Staecker, IEEE Past President
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
Mark McGranaghan
IEEE POWER & ENERGY SOCIETY AWARDS Presented by Don Morrow, PES Awards Chair
IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power Distribution
Engineering
Thomas J. Tobin
IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award
Joe Hong Chow
IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy
Conversion Award
James S. Edmonds
IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award
George Larry Clark
IEEE Power & Energy Society Leadership in Power Award David W. Roop
IEEE Power & Energy Society Lifetime Achievement Award Virginia C. Sulzberger
IEEE PES Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award
Harshad Mehta
IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award
Ned Mohan
IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineer Educator Award
Ali Abur
IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award
Shay Bahramirad
IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and
Control Award
Peter W. Sauer
IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable
Energy Excellence Award
J. Charles Smith
IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award
Mark G. Lauby
IEEE PES Uno Lamm High Voltage Direct Current Award José Antonio Jardini
IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award
Jessica J. Bian
NEW FELLOW CLASS OF 2014 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
IEEE PES Prize Paper Award
• “Probing the Intermittent Energy Resource Contributions from Generation
Adequacy and Security Perspectives”
Wijarn Wangdee and Roy Billinton
IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Awards - Outstanding Technical Report
• Special Report—Effect of Distribution Automation on Protective Relaying Fred Friend, Chair Gerald Johnson, Vice Chair
IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Awards - Outstanding Standard or Guide • IEEE Std. 1249-2013, Guide for Computer-based Control for Hydroelectric
Power Plant Automation
Douglas B. Seely Chair
IEEE PES Outstanding Large Chapter Award 2013
• Boston Chapter
Susan Soergel, Chair
IEEE PES Outstanding Small Chapter Award 2013
• Panama Chapter
Ivan Castillo, Chair
CLOSING: Miroslav M. Begovic
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
The IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1979. Recipient selection is administered through the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board. This award recognizes individuals who have made exceptional contribu-tions to the development and/or advancement of standards in electrical and electronics engineering. IEEE policy requires that its awards be presented at major IEEE events that are in keeping with the nature of the award and the cited achievement. The award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium. This award is sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association.
Past Recipients:
• 1980 Leon Podolsky • 1982 Ralph M. Showers • 1983 William a. McAdams • 1984 H. Baron Whitaker • 1985 Charles L. Wagner • 1986 Chester H. Page • 1987 Bruce B. Barrow • 1989 Joseph L. Kopefinger • 1990 Warren H. Cook • 1991 Fletcher J. Buckley • 1992 Donald C. Fleckenstein • 1993 Ivan G. Easton • 1994 Clayton H. Griffin • 1995 L. Bruce McClung • 1996 Marco W. Migliaro • 1997 L. John Rankine and Donald N. Heirman
• 1998 William J. McNutt • 1999 Dennis Bodson • 2000 Hiroshi Yasuda • 2001 Stanley Baron • 2002 Ben C. Johnson • 2003 Donald C. Loughry • 2004 Julian Forster • 2005 Wallace S. Read • 2006 Steven Mark Halpin • 2007 Vic Hayes • 2008 Roy Billinton • 2009 James Thomas Carlo • 2010 Richard DeBlasio • 2011 James W. Moore • 2012 Daleep C. Mohla • 2013 Mohindar Sachdev
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
MARK McGRANAGHAN 2014 Recipient
For sustained leadership in IEEE standards and global harmonization of standards including power quality, system monitoring, transients and harmonics, smart grid
interoperability, and application
MARK MCGRANAGHAN’S expertise and dedication to power-engineering standards development have improved power qua l i ty worldwide . Mr . McGranaghan has been a pioneer in the advancement of power quality stand-ards since the creation of IEEE Stand-ards Coordinating Committee 22 in the early 1990s. He was a leading force in the development of industry standards for power system harmonics (IEEE 519) and has contributed to standards and industry guides in a variety of other power quality areas including flicker, voltage sags, and transients. He is also known for his contributions to IEEE Standard 1547 regarding the connection of distributed generation sources to the power grid, which is considered one of the most important power-engineering standards of the past decade. An IEEE Fellow, Mr. McGranaghan is vice president of power delivery and utilization with the Electric Power Research Institute, Knoxville, Tenn.
IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering
Distribution represents a major utility investment for the transportation of electrical power. It is critical to the quality, reliability and economy of the product. This award was established to recognize those individuals who have contributed to the growth and value of the technology. Since many people have contributed to the advancement of distribution technology, this award is not named honoring one individual. It is award-ed annually by the IEEE PES to recognize the individual who has made a remarkable engineering contribution to the field of distribution technology. The selection committee considers all candidates brought to its attention whose work will result in substantial improvements to the effectiveness and utilization of power distribution. The award is funded by long-term grant commitments received from the Asplundh Co., Chance Co., Commonwealth Edison Co., Georgia Power Co., Kearney-National Inc., Pacific Gas & Electric Co., PECO Energy Co., and the S&C Electric Co. The award consists of a plaque, an honorarium of $1,000 USD and a travel subsidy to attend the PES Awards Ceremony.
Past Recipients:
• 1999 John G. Anderson • 2000 Daniel J. Ward • 2001 Ronald H. Stillman • 2002 John D. McDonald • 2003 Robert Ellis Owen • 2004 David R. Smith • 2005 Roger Craig Dugan • 2006 Wayne Beaty
• 2007 Cheryl A. Warren • 2008 T. A. Short • 2009 Reigh A. Walling • 2010 Phillip P. Barker • 2011 Lee Taylor • 2012 Rick Bush
TOM TOBIN graduated from Rensse-laer Polytechnic Institute with a Bache-lor’s and Master’s Degree in Electric Power Engineering, and embarked on a 43-year career with S&C Electric Com-pany. He has been involved in product development as a product development engineer, Director of Engineering for all of S&C products, Vice President – R&D, and his present position as Chief Technology Officer. Product develop-ment spanned equipment from 230kV circuit switchers to whole-facility, unin-terruptable power systems. Included among the breakthrough developments is the R&D 100 award-winning IntelliRupter PulseCloser. Presently, Tom oversees S&C’s development program ensuring the flow of innovative new products and services and the identification and adoption of new technologies. He also has responsibility for the Nicholas J Conrad Laboratories, a world-class, high-voltage and high-power testing laboratory including two 850 megawatt short-circuit generators. Tom’s expertise lies in the design, testing, and application of switching devices and controls for electric power systems. Tom is an IEEE Life Fellow and a member of various IEEE Switchgear Committee working groups, and is active in international standards devel-opment through the IEC, where he was the U.S. Technical Advisor to Technical Committee 17—Switchgear and Controlgear. Tom has also participated in several CIGRE committees, providing analysis and guidance for future standards writing. Tom is currently a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Grid Federal Adviso-ry Committee. He holds 28 U.S. patents and several international patents related to high voltage switches, fuses, or circuit interrupters, and is a Reg-istered Professional Engineer in Illinois.
IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering
THOMAS J. TOBIN 2014 Recipient
For excellence in power distribution engineering and technical leadership in distribution lightning protection and reliability
IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award
This award recognizes outstanding Power System Engineering contribu-tions. Electrification is the most im-portant engineering accomplishment in the 20th century according to the National Academy of Engineering. A significant part of this accomplish-ment has been the development of high-voltage power systems through-out the world. These developments come from the work of dedicated engineers who have devoted their careers to the utilization and enhance-ment of high-voltage bulk power sys-
tems.
The award is named for a man who has contributed greatly to power sys-tem engineering during a long career (1926 to present). His contributions to the technical advancements of Power System Dynamics during the 20th century are unequaled.
The Award: The award consists of an engraved plaque and an honorarium of $5000 USD.
Past Recipients:
• 2003 Paul de Mello • 2004 William F. Tinney • 2005 Prabha S. Kundur • 2006 John Undrill • 2007 Richard Farmer
• 2008 Einar V. Larsen • 2009 Ralph Masiello • 2011 Hermann W. Dommel • 2012 Leonard (Len) Garver
DR. JOE H. CHOW was born in Shanghai, China. He is a Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, and Administrative Dean of Engineering, at Rensselaer Polytech-nic Institute, Troy, New York. He received his BS degrees in EE and Math from the University of Minneso-ta, Minneapolis, in 1974. He received his MS and PhD degrees from the Uni-versity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1975 and 1977, respectively, working on singular perturbations theory and large scale systems. He worked in the power systems business at General Electric Company, Schenectady, for 9 years before joining Rensselaer in 1987. He is also the Site Director of the Rensselaer Campus for the NSF/DOE Engineering Research Center (ERC) CURENT (Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks).
Dr. Chow’s technical contributions include: power system coherency and model reduction, power system damping control, synchrophasor data ap-plications, Flexible AC transmission system controllers, and AQ-bus type for voltage stability analysis. He is also a co-developer of the Power Sys-tem Toolbox. He has published over 250 journal and conference proceed-ings papers, and several books and monographs, including the recent mon-ograph entitled, “Power System Coherency and Model Reduction.” Dr. Chow is active in the IEEE Power and Energy Society, and is the Chair of the Power System Dynamic Measurements Working Group. Previously he was the Co-Chair of the Research Initiative Task Team of NASPI. He is an editor of the Springer Power Electronics and Power System Series. He is a past recipient of the Donald Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council and the Control Technology Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society.
IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award
JOE HONG CHOW 2014 Recipient
For the development of analysis techniques and innovative control and measurement systems to improve power system performance and reliability
IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award
This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of electrome-chanical energy conversion. Research and developments on electric motors continued throughout the 20th century and into the 21st to the point that such devices have now become an integral part of our lives. The current ubiquitous presence of the electric motor in everything we do has resulted from the work of dedicated engineers throughout the world. The award is named for the man re-sponsible for numerous practical im-provements in the design and applica-tion of electric motors over 50 years.
Dr. Cyril Veinott made seminal contributions to the development of poly-phase induction motors, 400 Hz aircraft motors, and was a pioneer in the application of digital computers to the design of electric motors. He was responsible for the early measurements and mitigation of electric motor noise. He helped write many IEEE and NEMA standards for electric mo-tors. He was the first person to be inducted into the Hall of Fame created by the Small Motor Manufacturers Association in 1985. The IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $5,000 USD.
Past Recipients:
• 2000 Paul I. Nippes • 2003 M. Azizur Rahman • 2004 Hamid A. Toliyat • 2005 Ronald G. Harley • 2006 Scott D. Sudhoff • 2008 Oleg Wasynczuk
• 2009 Emil Levi • 2010 O. A. Mohammed • 2011 Stephen D. Umans • 2012 J. Sheung-Chun Hsu • 2013 Clyde V. Maughan
JAMES S. EDMONDS is a Principal in Exponent’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science practice. In this po-sition, Mr. Edmonds has been responsi-ble for leading design and failure investi-gations in the field of power electrical systems. This has included the study and analysis of rotating electrical ma-chinery (generators, motors, and motor drive systems). His generator expertise includes investigations of all aspects of large turbo-alternators; large, medium and small hydro generators; and wind-turbine generators: stator core, stator windings, rotor elements and excitation systems.
Prior to joining Exponent, Mr. Edmonds was Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of MCM Enterprise Limited, responsible for the introduc-tion and application of the company’s prime products: rotor mounted scanners for hydro-generators and non-invasive lead acid battery monitor-ing systems.
For 13 years Mr. Edmonds was a Project/Program Manager for the Elec-tric Power Research Institute (EPRI), where he led advanced-technology research and development programs for improved power generation. Prior to joining EPRI, he held a similar management position at DOE-ERDA. While at ERDA, he was chosen to chair a Source Evaluation Board for the selection of a contractor to develop a 300-MVA superconducting generator for power plant demonstration and co-managed three Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) demonstration projects. At EPRI, Mr. Edmonds managed the 300 MVA Superconducting generator demonstration project.
Mr. Edmonds electric utility experience began at American Electric Power as Staff Electrical Engineer responsible for all aspects of electric rotating machinery applications. This included evaluation of new equipment de-signs and establishing existing plant maintenance and refurbishment pro-grams. Mr. Edmonds was appointed AEP’s liaison engineer for advanced generation technology, prior to the formation of EPRI.
IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award
JAMES S. EDMONDS 2014 Recipient
For contributions to the design of large AC motors and generators
IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award
The IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award was established to recognize individuals who have made a significant contribu-tion to ensure the practical realization of distribution system automation. This award is named in honor of Douglas M. Staszesky who worked with enormous energy and passion to bring new technologies and concepts to the field of distribution automation and to promote the value of investments in such systems to electric utility decision makers. The Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award recog-
nizes individuals who displayed that same energy and passion and who have demonstrated success in the implementation of systems that provide real benefits for electric utilities and their customers. The funds for this award are provided by S&C Electric Company. The award is administrated by the IEEE Power & Energy Society. The recipient receives a plaque and a travel stipend of up to $1,500 USD, and will designate an engineering school to receive a $2,000 USD scholar-ship.
Past Recipients:
2009 Dean Craig and Jack Li
2010 Robert W. Uluski
2011 Cameron Lee Smallwood
2012 Anil Pahwa
2013 Nokhum Markushevich
GEORGE LARRY CLARK is Principal Engineer-Power Delivery for Alabama Power Company (APC), Birmingham, AL and supports the deployment of the Distribution Automation, Distribu-tion SCADA, Electronic Mapboard and Switching Operations technologies at APC, and the development of the Integrated Distribution Management System and the Smart Grid Strategy for APC and the Southern Company. Mr. Clark is Chairman of the IEEE PES Smart Distribution Working Group, member of the IEEE PES Intelligent Grid Coordinating Committee, member and past chair of the Smart Distribution Subcommittee of the DistribuTECH Advisory Committee and member of Smart Grid Road-show Conference Committee. During 47-years of employment at APC, Mr. Clark’s previous assignments include responsibilities for the operation and maintenance of Transmission and Distribution substations, and for the planning, operation and mainte-nance of the electric distribution system. Mr. Clark is a frequent industry conference speaker making presentations in the areas of Distribution Auto-mation and SCADA, and most recently the Smart Distribution Grid. Mr. Clark has published 24 papers and made 100 presentations in the areas of Distribution Automation and SCADA, is co-instructor for several Smart Distribution Grid tutorials since 2009 presented at industry and IEEE ven-ues including PSCE, T&D conference and General Meeting, and is a coau-thor of the book Electric Power Engineering Handbook, first, second and third editions. Mr. Clark was selected as the 2001 recipient of the Engineer of the Year Award presented by the Alabama Section of IEEE. Mr. Clark received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree in 1970 from the University of South Alabama. Mr. Clark is a Life Senior Member of IEEE and is a registered engineer in the State of Alabama.
IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award
GEORGE LARRY CLARK
2014 Recipient
For pioneering significant contributions to advanced distribution automation technology deployment and integration of smart distribution applications
IEEE Power & Energy Society Leadership in Power Award
The IEEE PES Leadership in Power Award was established in 2007 to recognize industry leaders for exceptional contributions to the promotion of the electric power engineering profession. The award is particularly in-tended to highlight actions which have encouraged the development and growth of electric power engineering practitioners and the recognition of the contributions electric power engineers have made to society. In this era, electric utility leaders who recognize the crucial importance of power engineering in the safe, reliable and economical generation, transmission and distribution of electricity are rare and this award is to recognize them for their insight and wisdom. To be eligible, recipients must be active in the electric power industry but do not need to be IEEE members. Selection is based on evaluation of accomplishments as revealed by documented testimonials from industry members. Of particular importance is evidence of the candidate’s promo-tion of the importance of the power engineering profession and the people practicing it. Work in encouraging industry involvement with university power engineering programs, encouraging young engineers through men-toring and career development programs, recognition programs for power engineers, encouragement of professional activities by practitioners, etc. are also considered. The recipient receives a sculpture, certificate, $2,000 USD honorarium and a travel stipend of up to $2,000 USD.
Past Recipients:
2008 Robin A. Hurst
2009 James A. Kelly
2010 James Alan Greer
2011 Terry Boston
2013 Michael Heyeck
IEEE Power & Energy Society Leadership in Power Award
DAVID W. ROOP
2014 Recipient
For his industry-wide leadership in: changing the landscape of utility human performance and safety; reliability driven asset strategy development; novel catastrophe recovery planning; and the renaissance of the power engineering research and education
DAVID W. ROOP received a B.S. Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1976. He has a Professional Engi-neer Certification in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Mr. Roop has a 38-year career in the electric utility industry focused on elec-tric transmission and substation operation and management and culminating in his present position.
Since 2001, Mr. Roop has been the Direc-tor, Electric Transmission Operations at Dominion Virginia Power/North Carolina Power. He is responsible for the operation of Dominion’s transmission assets, includ-ing substations. He manages an organization covering technical support and engi-neering resources for electrical equipment and protective relays. In addition, he provides technical support for Dominion Generation substations, including protec-tive relaying, for both regulated and merchant plants.
He held various management positions from1984 – 2001. Those areas included transmission & substation engineering, system protection engineering, project man-agement of bulk power facilities, distribution operations and construction, research and development of emerging electro-technologies.
His accomplishments range from having received a U.S. Patent for Grounding Cage and developed innovative technique for surge protection of Distribution facilities in highly resistive soils. He assisted in the development of the 1996 NEC®, section 625 on electric vehicle charging by serving on the Code Making Panel 12 Correlating Committee. He implemented unique transmission grounding solution that resulted in an improvement in lightning related incidences by 40% in 1998.
His affiliations are the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) – Power Engineering Society, Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, and CIGRE National Committee Treasurer.
Mr. Roop was born in Roanoke, VA and currently resides in Richmond, VA. He is married and has two children, a daughter and a son.
IEEE Power & Energy Society Lifetime Achievement Award
The IEEE Power & Energy Society Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 2007 to recognize exceptional power engineers for outstand-ing career-long contributions to the art and science of electric power engi-neering. To be eligible, the recipient must have been an IEEE PES member in good standing for at least 10 years, and must have accomplishments as revealed by published works, documented testimonials from industry col-leagues, or other objective demonstrations of accomplishments over an extended period of work. Of particular importance is evidence of the can-didate's contributions to the knowledge base of the power engineering profession, whether in research, teaching, product development, electric system design, or electric utility operations. The recipient will receive an honorarium of $2,000 USD, a sculpture, and a travel stipend of up to $2,000 USD for the recipient to attend the presenta-tion ceremony. This award is funded by the IEEE PES Awards Endow-ment Fund through the IEEE Foundation.
Past Recipients:
• 2008 Stanley Harold Horowitz
• 2012 Melvin I. Olken
IEEE Power & Energy Society Lifetime Achievement Award
VIRGINIA C. SULZBERGER
2014 Recipient
For pioneering leadership in developing reliability analysis methods, performing reliability assessments of interconnected transmission systems, and establishing
transmission reliability planning standards applied in North America during a 50-year career
VIRGINIA C. SULZBERGER began her engineering career in 1962 at Public Service Electric and Gas Company where she developed methods and their application for calculating electric trans-mission system and substation reliability. During her 14 years at PSE&G, she held various engineering and management positions, including Manager of Trans-mission Planning.
From 1976 to 1984, Virginia was a Sen-ior Planning Advisor in advanced energy systems at the Exxon Enterprises affili-ate of Exxon Corporation. In 1985, she became Director-Engineering at the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), Princeton, NJ. She retired from NERC in 2006.
At NERC, her work included responsibility for NERC’s reliability assess-ments and the publication of NERC’s flagship document, which annually reported on the future reliability of the bulk (138-kV and above) electric systems in North America. She also played a key leadership role in the development of the first NERC Planning Standards for electric transmis-sion systems, adopted in 1997. These initial Standards were the foundation for today’s NERC Standards for which compliance is mandatory under the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Virginia is an IEEE Life Fellow, served two years on the IEEE Board of Directors, and served 14 years on PES’s Governing Board. In 1990, she was elected an IEEE Fellow “for development and application of reliability techniques for the analysis of power systems.” In 1999, she received the PES Meritorious Service Award for her 30 years of contributions to PES.
Since 1991, Virginia has been an active member of the U.S. National Com-mittee (USNC) of CIGRÉ, the International Council of Large Electric Systems. She received CIGRÉ’s Distinguished Member Award in 2006 and the USNC’s Attwood Associate Award in 2007.
IEEE PES Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award
For major contributions to the state of the art of Flexible
AC Transmission System (FACTS) technology and its applications
Past Recipients:
1999 Laslo Gyugui
2000 David J. Young
2001 Einar Larsen
2002 Ibrahim A. Erinmez
2003 Dusan Povh
2004 Colin D. Schauder
2005 Masatoshi Takeda
2006 Abdel-Aty Edris
2007 Aniruddha M. Gole
2008 Xiaoxin Zhou
2010 Chris Horwill
2011 John J. Paserba, Jr.
2012 Stig L. Nilsson
2013 Edson H. Watanabe
Power electronics and other static con-trollers are making a major impact on future power systems through applica-tion in transmission, distribution, and small generation. Applications in trans-mission and distribution include HVDC, FACTS and Custom Power. Since the introduction of Custom Pow-er concepts, the technology has been moving ahead at an increasing pace. Very significant near to long term ben-efits of Custom Power technology are now recognized in the industry.
The award is for individuals who have made a major contribution to the state of the art of Custom Power technology and its applications. It con-sists of a plaque, engraved medal and an honorarium of $1,000 USD. This award is funded by contributions from the following companies:
ABB
ALSTOM
EPRI
GE Energy
Hingorani Power Electronics
National Grid Corporation
S&C Electric
Siemens
Silicon Power Corporation
Westinghouse
HARSHAD MEHTA is the founder and
president of Silicon Power Corporation.
In 1994 Dr. Mehta purchased the Pow-
er Semi-Conductor Manufacturing Divi-
sion from General Electric.
From 1983 to 1994 he worked at the
Electric Power Research Institute
(EPRI) where he managed the develop-
ment and commercialization of ad-
vanced power electronics technologies
for custom power applications.
His passion is the early commercializa-
tion of advance technologies, and his
vision is wide spread application of “Power Processes” empower by Silicon
Power Corporation.
Dr. Harshad Mehta received a PhD. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Florida.
IEEE PES Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award
HARSHAD MEHTA 2014 Recipient
For leading the development of the solid state transfer switch
IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award
For major contributions to the state of the art of
Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) technology and its applications
Past Recipients:
1999 Laslo Gyugui
2000 David J. Young
2001 Einar Larsen
2002 Ibrahim A. Erinmez
2003 Dusan Povh
2004 Colin D. Schauder
2005 Masatoshi Takeda
2006 Abdel-Aty Edris
2007 Aniruddha M. Gole
2008 Xiaoxin Zhou
2010 Chris Horwill
2011 John J. Paserba, Jr.
2012 Stig L. Nilsson
2013 Edson H. Watanabe
Power electronics and other static con-trollers are making a major impact on future power systems through applica-tion in transmission, distribution, and small generation. Applications in trans-mission and distribution include HVDC, FACTS and Custom Power. Since the introduction of the Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) concept, the technology has been mov-ing ahead at an increasing pace. Very significant near to long term benefits of FACTS technology are now recognized in the industry. The FACTS Award is
presented to individuals who have made a major contribution to the state of the art of FACTS technology and its applications. Funded by contribu-tions from the following companies:
ABB
ALSTOM
EPRI
GE Energy
Hingorani Power Electronics
National Grid Corporation
S&C Electric
Siemens
Silicon Power Corporation
Westinghouse
The FACTS Award consists of a plaque, engraved medal and an honorari-
um of $1,000 USD.
NED MOHAN (LF) joined the Univer-sity of Minnesota in 1975, where he is Oscar A. Schott Professor of Power Electronic Systems and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur in 1967. His PhD in Electrical Engineer-ing and Master’s in Nuclear Engineer-ing are from UW-Madison. He has written 5 textbooks, one of which is translated into six languages. He has graduated 35 PhDs. His area of re-search is in power electronics applied to power systems. Ned Mohan received the H.T. Morse Distinguished Teaching Award for undergraduate education from the University of Minnesota in 2007. He has received 2008 IEEE-PES Outstanding Educator Award, 2010 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2010 UWIG Achievement Award from Utility Wind Integration Group, 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT-Kharagpur (India), and 2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society Rama-kumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award. In 2013, he received the Innovative Program Award from the ECE Department Heads Associ-ation made up of over 250 U.S. universities. In 2014, he received the Dis-tinguished Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Minnesota. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.
IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award
NED MOHAN 2014 Recipient
For pioneering research in renewable energy integration and FACTS and for developing a novel curriculum in electrical energy systems education with
emphasis on power electronics
IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award
For leadership in the power engineering field and contributions
to the engineering profession and engineering education
Past Recipients:
1996 S. S. Venkata
1997 Peter W. Sauer
1998 Chanan Singh
1999 Mohamed E. El-Hawary
2000 Vijay Vittal
2001 Charles A. Gross
2002 Bruce F. Wollenberg
2003 Leo Grigsby
2004 Chen-Ching Liu
2005 Robert J. Thomas
2006 James S. Thorp
2007 Göran Andersson
2008 Ned Mohan
2009 Lalit Goel
2010 Richard G. Farmer
2011 Thomas J. Overbye
2012 Mohammad Shahidehpour
2013 Saifur Rahman
This award recognizes excellence in classroom teaching, course develop-
ment and the promotion of student, local, transnational and technical ac-
tivities.
To be eligible for this award, an individual must provide classroom in-
struction in electrical engineering at a college or university with an
accredited electrical engineering program or equivalent, be a member of
PES for at least one year, and be nominated by any PES member and en-
dorsed by the chapter or technical committee of which the individual is a
member.
The award consists of a plaque and honorarium of $1,000 USD.
IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award
ALI ABUR
2014 Recipient
For contributions to the instructional computer-based tools and methods for teaching power system state estimation
ALI ABUR obtained his B.S. degree from Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, Turkey in 1979 and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ohio State University in 1981 and 1985 respec-tively. He was a faculty member at Texas A&M University until Novem-ber 2005 when he joined the faculty of Northeastern University as a Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Com-puter Engineering Department. His research and educational activities have been in the area of power systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his work on power system state estimation and serves as an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. He co-authored a book and published widely in IEEE journals and conferences. He served on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Power Engineering Letters between 1999 and 2011.
IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award
Past Recipients:
1994 Lei Wang
1997 Mariesa L. Crow
1998 Kraig J. Olejniczak
1999 Miguel Velez-Reyes
2000 Christopher W. Hickman
2002 Jeffrey H. Nelson and Noel N. Schulz
2003 Richard E. Brown
2004 Mark Laufenberg
2005 Efrain O’Neill–Carrillo
2006 Marcelino Madrigal and Ganesh Venayagamoorthy
2007 Karen Nan Miu Miller
2008 William (Bill) Rosehart
2009 Zhenyu (Henry) Huang
2010 Luiz A. Barroso
2011 Ted K. A. Brekken
2012 Alejandro D. Dominguez Garcia
2013 Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann
This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the leadership of tech-
nical society activities including local and/or transnational PES and other
technical societies, leadership in community and humanitarian activities, and
evidence of technical competence through significant engineering achieve-
ments.
To be eligible for the Outstanding Young Engineer Award, an individual
must be thirty-five years of age or under on January 1 of the year the award is
presented, be a member of PES for at least one year, and have a minimum of
a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from an accredited electrical engineering pro-
gram or equivalent. He r she can be nominated by any PES member and
must endorsed by the chapter or technical committee of which the individual
is a member.
The recipient receives a plaque and will designate a college or university with
an accredited program in electrical engineering or equivalent to receive a
$2,000 USD scholarship for an electrical engineering undergraduate.
Past Recipients: (Through 2007, the recipient received the Walter Fee Outstanding
Young Engineer Award)
SHAY BAHRAMIRAD is the Manager of Smart Grid and Technology at ComEd; the utility in IL. Her respon-sibilities include leading the Smart Grid organization across ComEd, business case development and per-formance measures for Smart Grid technology deployments, and defining, developing, and implementing Smart Grid initiatives in ComEd’s service territory. She is leading several strate-gic initiatives including microgrid and chair ing ComEd’s innovat ion hub. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Shay holds multiple advanced degrees, including a Ph.D. in Electrical En-gineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is a U.S. repre-sentative of power quality monitoring in CIGRE (International Council of Large Electric Systems) and leads the development of the IEEE P1815 Standard: Smart Distribution Application Guide, and serves as Technical Chair of several IEEE conferences such as T&D and the Great Lake Sym-posium. She has published and presented several technical articles and seminars on power systems topics, primarily exploring innovative technol-ogies and practices in the power grid. Shay is the committee chair for the PES Women in Power, a Senior Member of IEEE and the editor-in-chief of Asset Management in Smart Grid transaction journal.
IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award
SHAY BAHRAMIRAD 2014 Recipient
For exceptional contributions in research and deployment of microgrids
IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award
As the development of the complex system known as the interconnected bulk power system unfolded around the world, it became critical to under-stand its nonlinear behavior as well as develop and deploy system controls vital to manage dynamic system behav-ior to ensure reliability. Even today, as the bulk power system evolves to ac-commodate an unprecedented change in resource mix and technology inno-vation, it is critical to manage integra-tion of new and emergent technologies. Without this ability to model the gen-eral dynamic behavior of the bulk pow-
er system and devise suitable coordinated systems controls, the moderniza-tion of the bulk power system would be inhibited. These developments come from the work of dedicated engineers who devote their careers to the deep understanding of bulk power system dynamic behavior, including transient, small-signal, voltage, and frequency stability, along with the de-velopment of controls vital to support bulk power system security and quality of power supply.
Nominees for the award must have been an IEEE PES member for at least 10 years with tangible and visible achievements in one or more of the areas listed below. Selection factors include contributions to:
- Bulk power system dynamics and control, including transient, small-signal, voltage, and frequency stability - Modern system analysis tools - Dynamic system modeling including non-linearities, and interconnection-wide dynamic behavior and control, - Originality and impact of technical publications - Professional and industry activities - Development of standards and operating guides - Achievements in other fields
The award consists of an appropriate memento and an honorarium of $3,000 USD.
This award has been funded by donations from Chinese Society for Elec-trical Engineering, Kundur Power Systems Solutions Inc., and Powertech Labs.
IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award
PETER W. SAUER
2014 Recipient
For contributions to power system dynamic modeling, simulation and analysis
and for leadership in power engineering
PETER W. SAUER obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1969. From 1969 to 1973, he was the electrical engineer on a design assis-tance team in the US Air Force Tacti-cal Air Command at Langley AFB, Virginia, working on design and con-struction of airfield lighting and elec-trical distribution systems.
Pete obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1974 and 1977 respectively. He has been on the fac-ulty at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1977 where he teaches courses and directs re-search on power systems and electric machines. He has written over 200 technical papers and the book with M. A. Pai, “Power System Dynamics and Stability”, published by Prentice Hall in 1998.
From August 1991-1992 he served as the Program Director for Power Systems in the Electrical and Communication Systems Division of the Na-tional Science Foundation in Washington D.C. He is a cofounder of PowerWorld Corporation and served as Chairman of the Board of Direc-tors from 1996-2001. He is a cofounder of the Power Systems Engineer-ing Research Center (PSERC) and has served as the Illinois site director from 1996 to the present. He served in the Air Force Civil Engineering reserves at Chanute AFB, Illinois and Scott AFB, Illinois until his retire-ment as a Lt. Col. in 1998. He is currently the Grainger Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at Illinois and is currently serving as the IEEE/PES Vice President for Education. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia and Illinois, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the U.S. Na-tional Academy of Engineering.
IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award
Past Recipient: 2012 Ned Mohan 2013 Vladimir Miranda
This award, established in 2011, recog-
nizes outstanding contributions in the
field of developing, utilizing and inte-
grating renewable energy resources,
particularly those that have minimal
carbon footprints, in the national and
global energy scenarios. Feeding the
electrical energy generated from innova-
tive conversion technologies into con-
ventional utility grids and operating the
combined system satisfactorily, plus the
effective use of locally available renewa-
ble energy resources in remote and rural
areas to improve the human living envi-
ronment are major components in this
mix. The need to stimulate and encour-
age activity towards these goals is the primary objective of this award.
This award consists of a plaque, and a honorarium of $1,000 USD.
The award is funded through a quasi-endowment fund established through
the IEEE Foundation and provided by an External Source/Donor. A cor-
pus of U.S. $50,000 has been endowed by the Ramakumar family.
Nominees must be members of IEEE and PES with clearly identifiable
and valuable contributions in the field of renewable energy.
J. CHARLES SMITH is a member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society; a member of CIGRE, the International Council on Large Electric Systems; a member of the American Meteorologi-cal Society; and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a guest editor for the IEEE Pow-er and Energy magazine, and a past editor for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. Mr. Smith re-ceived the Technical Achievement Award of the American Wind Energy Association in 2008. He received his BSME and MS degrees from MIT in 1970. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG). Previously, he served as President of Electrotek Con-cepts, a power engineering consulting firm. He has over 40 years of expe-rience in the electric power industry.
IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award
J. CHARLES SMITH 2014 Recipient
For leadership in and contributions to the integration of wind energy sources into the electric utility system
IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award
This award was created is in honor of
Roy Billinton, Professor Emeritus at
University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Dr. Billinton is an IEEE Life Fellow,
Foreign Associate of U.S. National
Academy of Engineering, Fellow of
Royal Society of Canada, and Fellow of
Canadian Academy of Engineering. He
has published over 850 papers and 8
books, has given tutorials, presentations
and seminars in over thirty countries,
delivered over one hundred short cours-
es on system reliability, and served on
IEEE PES committees and other indus-
try committees. He supervised more than 120 Ph.D. and Master Degree
candidates who are spread throughout the United States, Canada and other
countries.
Areas covered by the award includes modeling, analysis and data develop-
ment to quantify power system reliability, and, assessments to plan and
operate reliable electric utility generation, transmission, distribution sys-
tems or interconnected power system grids.
The award has been funded by the past students and other associates of
Professor Roy Billinton and selected organizations. Management of the
funds were approved by the IEEE Foundation.
The recipient of the IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability
Award receives a plaque and an honorarium of $3,000 USD.
Past Recipients:
2010 Chanan Singh
2011 Wenyuan Li
2012 Armando M. Leite Da Silva
2013 Ronald N. Allen
IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award
MARK G. LAUBY 2014 Recipient
For contributions in the development and application of techniques for bulk power system reliability assessment, composite reliability, and data analysis
MARK G. LAUBY is a senior vice presi-dent and chief reliability officer of the North American Electric Reliability Cor-poration (NERC). He is responsible for implementing NERC’s Vision to maintain and enhance bulk power system reliability, with direct responsibility for ERO’s relia-bility performance groups and functions. Joining NERC in January 2007, Mr. Lauby previously was vice president and director for Standards, and vice president and di-rector of reliability assessments and perfor-mance analysis.
Prior to joining NERC, Mr. Lauby worked since 1987 for the Electric Power Re-search Institute (EPRI) where he held a number of senior positions, including: director, Power Delivery & Markets; managing director, Asia, EPRI International; and Manager, Power System Engineering in the Power System Planning and Operations Program. Mr. Lauby started his career in the electric industry at the Mid‐Continent Area Power Pool (MAPP), in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979. His responsibilities included transmission planning, power system reliability assessment, and probabilistic evaluation.
Mr. Lauby earned his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1980 and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1989 from the University of Minneso-ta. In addition, Mr. Lauby attended the London Business School Accelerated Development Program.
He has authored numerous papers on power system reliability, expert sys-tems, transmission system planning, and power system numerical analysis techniques. Mr. Lauby has served as Chair, and is a life member, of the Inter-national Electricity Research Exchange (IERE), and has served as Chair of a number of IEEE working groups. Mr. Lauby has been recognized for his technical achievements in many technical associations, including the 1992 IEEE Walter Fee Young Engineer of the Year Award. In November 2011, Mr. Lauby was named a Fellow by IEEE. He received the honor for "leadership in the development and application of techniques for bulk power system reliability."
IEEE PES Uno Lamm High Voltage Direct Current Award
The IEEE PES Uno Lamm High Voltage Direct Current Award was established in 1980 by the recommendation of the DC Transmission Subcommittee. It provides a means for special recognition of those out-standing engineers and scientists who have contributed to the advancement of high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology. The award is named for the man most re-sponsible for the research and development that led to the first practical application of an HVDC connection between AC systems. The keys to the solution of this problem
were the development of an electric valve which could be used in high capacity, high voltage converters, and a fundamental system technology. This outstanding engineer and scientist was Dr. Uno Lamm, an IEEE Fel-low and the 1965 recipient of the Benjamin Lamme Medal.
Dr. Lamm graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in 1927 and acquired his Doctorate of Technology in 1943. He joined ASEA in 1928 with the task of developing mercury arc rectifiers as an early assignment. During his career with ASEA, he received progressively more responsible appointments: head of the Rectifier Department; head of ASEA’s Nuclear Department; Electrotechnical Director; and Consultant to the President of ASEA. Dr. Lamm died in 1989 at the age of 85.
At the invitation of the Subcommittee, ASEA of Sweden provided the initial funds that were used to underwrite this Award. In order to sustain this important Award and to permit selection of a medalist every year, the subcommittee solicited additional funds from selected manufacturers and electric utility companies.
The IEEE PES Uno Lamm High Voltage Direct Current Award consists of a bronze medal, a plaque and a honorarium of $1,000 USD.
Recent Past Recipients: (more recipients are listed online)
1997 Jos Arrillaga
1998 Tadashi Senda
1999 Chandra Kirshnayya
2001 Dusan Povh
2002 Conrad Beriger
2003 Gote Liss
2004 Dennis A. Woodford
2005 Michael L. Woodhouse
2006 Gunnar Asplund
2007 Peter Lips
2008 Willis F. Long
2009 Marcio Szechtman
2010 Mohamad M. Rashwan
2012 Bjarne R. Andersen
IEEE PES Uno Lamm High Voltage Direct Current Award
JOSÉ ANTONIO JARDINI
2014 Recipient
For contributions to HVDC system studies, HVDC transmission line design and to HVDC_VSC grid modeling
JOSÉ ANTONIO JARDINI was born on March 27, 1941. He received his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from the Polytechnic School of the Sao Paulo University in 1963, 1970 and 1973, respectively. From 1964-1991 he worked at Themag (Brazilian engineering company) in the area of Power Systems, Automation and Transmission Lines projects. He participated in large projects like the Itaipu (12,000MW) 765kVac (3 lines) and 600kVdc (2 bipoles) 900km transmission system, and the planning of the power plants at the Amazon River tributaries. Recently, he was consultant for the Brazilian Madeira River project (2x3000MW bipoles, 600kV, 2400km), the 2x400MW back-to-back project; and the Belo Monte project (4000MW bipole, 800kV, 2000km). Currently, he is Full Professor at the Energy and Automation Department of the University of São Paulo where he has ad-vised 54 PhD and MSc diss. altogether. He is member of the CIGRE SC-B4 (HVDC and power electronics) group. Formerly, he was the Brazilian representative of the CIGRE SC-38 group. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of PES and was of the IAS. His fields of interest include: Generation Automation, Transmission and Power Distribution. At CIGRE he participates in areas related to: Impacts of HVDC lines on the Economics of Projects; Electric Field; recommended models and studies; environment requirements; converter modeling; HVDC electrode design; conversion of AC lines into DC; wind farm connection; AC-DC transmis-sion line. He is also studying the application of 1000kVac in Brazil. His volunteered activities include: South Brazil section Chairman; IEEE R9 treasurer, IEEE Fellow Committee, R9 and IEEE PES nomination board, Education Society Fellow Committee, Editor-in-chief of the IEEE Latin America Transactions, Chairman of the T&D Latin America.
IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award
The IEEE PES Women in Power Com-mittee was created to foster a more di-verse leadership by supporting career advancement, networking and education of women in the electric power and energy industry. One important way this mission is supported, is through the formal recognition of a worthy female member of this community. The IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award seeks to recognize a deserving female in the field of power engineering. The Award is intended to provide visibility to the awardee’s ef-
forts, accomplishments and future potential while empowering her to be an inspiration and role model for other women in the industry. The award is in honor of the first female president of IEEE PES, Ms. Wanda Reder. In addition to recognizing the recipient, the Award brings attention to the value of fostering a diverse talent pool. It further empowers the recipient to have a greater influence on the growth and development of others in the industry. Nominees for the award must be female and senior members of the IEEE PES. Tangible and visible achievements in one or more of the following: - Innovation and technology development;
- Entrepreneurship and innovative business models;
- Education and mentorship;
- Related achievements. The awardee will receive a plaque and a honorarium of $1,500 USD.
IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award
JESSICA J. BIAN
2014 Recipient
Visionary leader and architect, who has pioneered electric industry’s reliability metrics and grid risk assessment; inspiring role model and mentor to young women
engineers in power
JESSICA J. BIAN is currently with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Prior to FERC, she was the Director of Performance Analysis at North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), responsible for developing electric industry-wide met-rics and reporting on overall state of grid reliability. Under her leadership, a total of eighteen (18) industry-wide reliability indicators and three (3) com-posite indices were established first time to determine the reliability, ade-quacy, and associated risks to the inter-connected North American bulk power system. She is widely recognized as a pioneer and trusted world leader in the field.
In spring 2012, Dr. Bian steered multiple technical industry groups and directed completion of the first-ever industry-wide State of Reliability report. Her trending and statistical analysis has served as vital technical guidance for developing effective and risked-based industry standard requirements. Her work has been cited by many organizations, including CIGRE, RTOs/ISOs, North American Transmission Forum (NATF), Canadian Electricity Association and US Department of Energy (DOE).
Her latest effort has further advanced continent-wide data collection and reporting consistency, which is essential for assessing trends and efforts to maintain or improve reliability and support academic research that has relied upon them to draw conclusions about the grid reliability. It marked a major step forward in benchmarking the North American grid reliability.
Before joining NERC in July 2007, she was with the PJM Interconnection and ERCOT with responsibility for real-time operations support, resource economic dispatch and operator training simulator projects. She started her career at Westinghouse Electric in 1993, was involved in generator design and Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) applications.
New IEEE Fellows Class of 2014
the following are PES Members or were evaluated by the Power & Energy Society
Bjarne Andersen for leadership in
High Voltage DC Transmission Systems, AC Power Electronics, and Reactive Power Compensation
William Bartley
for contributions to the development of generator and transformer standards
for life cycle planning and risk assessment
Carl Benner for contributions to
development of waveform-based analytics for electric power distribution
Kent Brown
for leadership in standards development gor design, testing, and utilization of
electrical equipment for the nuclear power industry
Babu Chalamala for contributions to the development of
advanced materials and device technologies for vacuum microelectronics and field emission displays
Ambrish Chandra
for contributions to power distribution and renewable energy systems
New IEEE Fellows Class of 2014
the following are PES Members or were evaluated by the Power & Energy Society
Kwok Cheung for development and implementation
of energy and market management systems for control centers
Peter Donalek
for contributions to grid-connected pumped storage hydro systems
Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad
for development of probabilistic techniques in
power system reliability evaluation
Bjorn Gustavsen for contributions to
frequency-domain modeling techniques
Chris Horwill for contributions to testing
and commissioning of flexible AC transmission systems
Hao Huang for contributions to
electric power generation, conversion, and control in aircraft
New IEEE Fellows Class of 2014
the following are PES Members or were evaluated by the Power & Energy Society
Cursino Jacobina for contributions to the
development of power converters and machine drives
Roger King for contributions in
power systems data analytics to improve grid reliability
Benjamin Kroposki for leadership in renewable and
distributed energy systems integration in the electric power system
Thomas McDermott
for contributions to modeling and analysis of electric power distribution systems
and lightning protection
Andrew Ott for leadership in the design, development,
and operation of competitive wholesale electricity markets
Muhammed Rahman for contributions to
direct torque control of integrated Permanent magnet machines
New IEEE Fellows Class of 2014
the following are PES Members or were evaluated by the Power & Energy Society
Sandeep Shukla for contributions
to applied probabilistic model checking for system design
Kiruba Sivasubramaniam for contributions to
high power density electric machines or renewable energy and aerospace applications
Dejan Sobajic
for applications of neural networks or power engineering
Hisao Taoka
for contributions to computing technology for power system analysis and control
Germano Torres
for contributions to the application of intelligent systems to power systems
Solveig Ward
for contributions to power system protective relaying,
communications systems, and tele-protection
IEEE PES Prize Paper Award
“Probing the Intermittent Energy Resource Contributions from
Generation Adequacy and Security Perspectives”
WIJARN WANGDEE and ROY BILLINTON
Published in the November 2012 issue of the
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Each year each Technical Committee of the Technical Council is entitled and encouraged choose to award the author(s) of an outstanding technical paper with the IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award. Each com-mittee is also encouraged to nominate a paper from their committee for the Society-level IEEE PES Prize Paper Award, most committees choose to select the same paper. One (or two) paper is chosen from all the nomina-tions for the Society-level IEEE PES Prize Paper Award .
The IEEE PES Prize Paper Award consists of a plaque for each author and $200 USD for a single author; $100 USD each for two (2) or more authors.
Funded by the IEEE PES Endowment Fund, managed by the IEEE Foun-dation.
IEEE PES Prize Paper Award WIJARN WANGDEE (S’03–M’06–SM’12) received the bachelor degree in Electri-cal Engineering from Chulalongkorn Universi-ty, Bangkok, Thailand. He obtained the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
From 2006 to 2013, he worked as a senior engineer in System Planning Department at BC Hydro and Power Authority in Canada where he leaded several major project justifications and served as a subject matter expert on power system reliability, probabilistic system planning and wind power integration within the compa-ny. He is currently a faculty member at the Sirindhorn International Thai-German Gradu-ate School of Engineering (TGGS) that is an autonomous graduate school in King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand. He has been actively involved in many professional services such as serving as a technical committee for IEEE and a reviewer for several international journals. He is a member of the Interna-tional Technical Advisory Committee of Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS). He is also an author and co-author of 32 technical papers in the international journals and conferences, and 2 book chapters. His research areas of interest are Power System Reliability, Power System Planning and Operation. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. ROY BILLINTON, BSc, MSc, Ph.D, DSc, is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Uni-versity of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. His area of research is power system reliability, economics and performance and has au-thored/coauthored over 950 papers and 8 books, given tutorials, presentations and semi-nars in over thirty countries, delivered over one hundred short courses on system reliabil-ity, and served on many IEEE PES commit-tees and other industry committees.
IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Awards Outstanding Standard or Guide
IEEE Standard 1249-2013, “Guide for Computer-Based Control for Hydroelectric
Power Plant Automation”
Energy Development and Power Generation Committee
Douglas B. Seely, Chair
Members: Jay Anders Dave Apps Terry Bauman Bruce Benson Steve Brockschink Horst Butz Matthew Davis Russ Fostiak George Girgis Randy Groves Jim Gurney Dave Kornegay Ron Krohn
Lucas Kunz Chuck Lennon Larry Long Corey Mauer Paul Micale Ed Miska Hans Naeff Wayne Rand Chris Shultz Philip Spotts William Terry Wayne Timm John Yale
Each year each Technical Committee of the Technical Council is entitled and
encouraged choose to award one working group with the IEEE PES Tech-
nical Committee Working Group Recognition Award. Each committee is
also encouraged to nominate their working groups for one of the Society-
level Working Group Awards, IEEE PES Working Group Recognition
Awards Outstanding Standard or Guide or Technical Report. Two working
groups are chosen out of all the nominations for these Society-level Awards
and are recognized at the IEEE PES General meeting. The officers are giv-
en a plaque and mounted certificates for the members.
IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Awards Outstanding Technical Report
Working Group D11 “Special Report, Effect of Distribution Automation on
Protective Relaying”
Power System Relaying Committee
Fred Friend, Chair Gerald Johnson, Vice Chair
Members:
Brian Mulalian Calin Micu Charles Sufana Cheong Siew Claire Patti Daniel Goodrich Don Lukach Don Parker Farajollah Soudi Jack Jester Jakov Vico Jay Sperl John Tengdin
Juan Gers Kevin Donahoe Matt Black Mike Meisinger Pat Heavey Patrick Carroll Raluca Lascu S.S. Mani Venkata Steven Hodder Victor Ortiz Wayne Hartmann
Each year each Technical Committee of the Technical Council is entitled and
encouraged choose to award one working group with the IEEE PES Tech-
nical Committee Working Group Recognition Award. Each committee is
also encouraged to nominate their working groups for one of the Society-
level Working Group Awards, IEEE PES Working Group Recognition
Awards Outstanding Standard or Guide or Technical Report. Two working
groups are chosen out of all the nominations for these Society-level Awards
and are recognized at the IEEE PES General meeting. The officers are giv-
en a plaque and mounted certificates for the members.
IEEE PES Outstanding Large Chapter Award
BOSTON CHAPTER SUSAN SOERGEL, Chair
The Boston Chapter is recognized as winner of the 2013 IEEE PES Outstanding Large Chapter Award for its outstanding performance under the leadership of Chapter Chair, Susan Soergel and the Chapter Executive Committee. The Chapter Executive Committee is a well organized and productive team. Through the hard work and dedication of this group of volunteers, they provided significant value to the PES members, students and others in the Boston power community. The chapter continues to make signifi-cant progress in many areas following it’s rejuvenation in 2009. Some significant 2013 highlights include:
8 Technical program meetings (would have been 10 if not for 2 major snowstorms!) Average attendance over 30.
2 Educational Programs providing CEU credit.
Outstanding and wide ranging support for Student related activities. This includes helping form a new student chapter, numerous interac-tion events/meetings.
$10,000 support of the PES Scholarship Plus Initiative (on the heels of $15,000 in 2012).
Membership Advancement efforts showed significant results, 14 total advancements.
Total membership growth continues to be strong with more than 12 new High Grade representing 3.3 % increase.
An ever improving web site that keeps members up to date on chap-ter and other related activities
RUNNERS-UP IN THIS CATEGORY WERE THE BANGALORE and QUEENSLAND CHAPTERS
The Panama Chapter is recognized as winner of the 2013 IEEE PES Outstanding Small Chapter Award for its outstanding performance under the leadership of Chapter Chair, Ivan Castillo and the Chapter Executive Committee. The Panama Chapter was very active during 2013 with a number of tech-nical programs, Affinity group efforts, membership growth/advancement focus, conference support, and member recognition. Through the hard work and dedication of this group of volunteers, they provided significant value to the PES members, students and others in the Panama power com-munity. Some examples of 2013 activities include:
Technical programs including presentations and seminars on various topics focused on professional engineers in the local industry.
Developing an intense program that reached the current and future members and leaders.
Strong support to the affinity groups WIE and GOLD.
A focus on membership growth and advancement which has resulted in continuous increases in both for several years. This year the chapter saw a “high grade” membership increase of over 10%, and even high-er student member growth.
Chapter involvement with the upcoming 2014 CONPACPAN confer-ence
A bi-lingual chapter web site, highlighting upcoming activities and other information for members
All these activities are especially impressive given the small size of the chapter, about 65 members!
THERE WERE NO RUNNERS-UP IN THIS CATEGORY
IEEE PES Outstanding Small Chapter Award
PANAMA CHAPTER IVAN CASTILLO, Chair
IEEE Power & Energy Society
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