Please join me in congratulating and celebrating the achievements of our IAS colleagues who were recently elevated to IEEE Fellow for extraordinary leadership and contributions in IAS fields of interest. As a preface, I would like to remind us of the IEEE and IAS vision and mission, which provide the foundation for our work:

IEEE VISION: To advance global prosperity by fostering technological innovation, enabling members' careers and promoting community world-wide.

IEEE MISSION: The IEEE promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession.

IAS Vision: to be a world leader in the advancement of technology and dissemination of technical information to support professionals engaged in the applications of electrical and electronic engineering to industry.

IEEE Fellows Class of 2007
The contributions of our colleagues noted below indeed truly reflect the vision and mission of the IEEE and Industry Applications Society.  The 2007 Class of IEEE Fellows was approved by the IEEE Board of Directors on November 18, and includes the following individuals who are members of the Industry Applications Society:

Akira Chiba
for contributions to bearingless AC motor drives

John Estey
for leadership in development of power system distribution equipment

Masoud Farzaneh
for leadership in the area of ice-covered insulator flashover mechanisms and development of application guidelines

Kamal Al Haddad
for contributions to research and development of power electronics converters

Jih-Sheng (Jason) Lai
for contributions to high performance high power inverters

Wei-Jen Lee
for contributions to engineering education and power system analysis

Leo Lorenz
for contributions to insulated gate and bipolar transistors modules and ultra-fast switching devices in power electronics

Peter Magyar        
for contributions to digital control of electrical drive systems

Avoki Omekanda
for contributions to robust optimization of switched reluctance machines

Dean Patterson
for contributions to the design of permanent magnet machines and power electronics education

James Rooks
for leadership in engineering applications in the pulp and paper industry

Nagu Srinivas
for contributions to assessment of vulnerability of aged extruded dielectric power cables by direct current testing

Peter Sutherland
for contributions to harmonic analysis in electrical power systems

Raman Unnikrishnan
for contributions to automatic control systems and power electronic education

Congratulations to the honorees and best regards to all,

Lanny
H. Landis (Lanny) Floyd II, PE
President, IEEE Industry Applications Society