Power & Energy Society Chapter

Welcome to the Power & Energy Society Chapter.
If you are interested in joining the chapter please contact the chapter chair. More information on IEEE Power & Energy Society can be found at: IEEE Power & Energy Society

Did you know that if you are an IEEE student member and not a member of Power & Energy Society (PES), your first year membership would be FREE when you join PES. Check here to see if you qualify! (This offer ends 15 August 2012)

PES chapter is pleased to announce that the IEEE PES Student Chapter at The University of Queensland was formed on 16 April 2010, as a result of a successful petition. Ms Alexandra Price has taken the role of Chair of the student Chapter for 2010.

IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Queensland Chapter Student Conference Travel Prize.In 2012, PES chapter received 9 applications. The prize committee carefully reviewed all received applications and finally decided to equally share the prize among the best two papers which were successful to obtain exact same mark. Mr.Sumit Mazumder from Queensland Universsity of Technology (QUT) and Mr.Md.Rakibuzzaman Shah from the University of Queensland (UQ) are the winners of 2012 IEEE PES Travel Award. Find out more about the prize and application process here.

In 2010, PES chapter award committee decided to share the prize equally between two winners; Miss Mai Nguyen and Mr.Sudarshan Dahal. The winners received $1000 check each during the IEEE seminar on 5th of July and award certificates during section Annual General Meeting on 25 November 2010.
Miss Mai Nguyen and Mr.Sudarshan Dahal receiving the award certificates from Professor Tapan Saha, chair of the PES chapter.


PES chapter in 2011 received 5 applications from the students of Queensland universities to attend and present papers at the 2011 IEEE PES General Meeting at Detroit, MI, USA. Mr. Ruifeng (Richard) Yan and Muhammad BachtiarNappu were the winners in 2011 (received $1000 check each) and both presented their papers at the conference. Award winners received a certificate from IEEE Queensland section during the section Annual General Meeting on 2 December 2011.
Mr. Muhammad BachtiarNappu (Left) and Mr.Ruifeng (Richard) Yan (Right) receiving the $1000 check from PES Chapter officers.

The IEEE PES Queensland chapter is very pleased to announce the inaugural ‘Outstanding Engineer Award’ which is aimed to recognize outstanding technical, professional and society contribution on behalf of the power and energy profession. This award will be given each year starting from 2010. Special plaque of “IEEE Power & Energy Society of Queensland Outstanding Engineer Award” will be presented to the recipient by the chair of the IEEE PES chapter.

In 2010, IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer award was awarded to Dr. Jose Lopez-Roldan.

In 2011, Call for nomination will start 1st of September 2011 and will be publicized through IEEE website, newsletter, e-notices and direct email to industry contacts. Nominations for the Outstanding Engineer Award will be accepted from IEEE Queensland Section engineers who contributed to the power engineering profession. Nomination form must be submitted electronically to the PES Chapter Chair (Email: saha@itee.uq.edu.au) not later than 15 November 2011. The award rules and nomination forms can be downloaded from links below.

The award rules and nomination forms can be downloaded from links below.

Outstanding Engineer Award Rules (pdf format)

2011 Nomination form (oea_2011_nomination_form.doc)

Sample Photo of Oustanding Engineer Award (pdf)

PES chapter 2011 annual report (pdf)
PES chapter 2010 annual report (pdf)

Archive of 2012 events
Archive of 2011 events
Archive of 2010 events

1) Power Systems Conference And Exposition (PSCE) , March 20, 2011, Phoenix, AZ, USA (Sponsered by PES)

2) 2011 IEEE PES PowerTech - Trondheim , June 19 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (Sponsered by PES)

3) 2011 Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, July 24-29, 2011, Detroit Michigan, USA (Sponsored by PES)

To view the annual calendar of conferences sponsered, technically sponsered and cosponsored by PES click here!

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