| 2005 Kliman Recipient |
| Wednesday, 13 June 2007 | |
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2005 IEEE IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department Gerald Kliman Innovator Award Recipient Dr. Russel J Kerkman is awarded the 2005 IEEE IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department Gerald Kliman Innovator Award for his contributions to "the control and reliability of ac motor drives ".
Russel J. Kerkman (S'67-M'76-SM'88-F'98) received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1971, 1973, and 1976, respectively. From 1976 to 1980, he was an Electrical Engineer in the Power Electronics Laboratory of Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY. He is currently an Engineering Consultant at Rockwell Automation / Allen Bradley Company, Mequon, WI. His career spans twenty-five years of industrial experience in power electronics. His current interests include: modeling and control of general purpose industrial drives, adaptive control applied to field oriented induction machines, application of observers to ac machines, design of ac motors for adjustable speed applications, and EMI from PWM inverters. He is a co-holder of thirty-two patents, all in adjustable speed drives and has published over 35 Technical papers at various IEEE conferences. Several of his inventions have been adopted by the industry. Dr. Kerkman is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of ten IEEE Prize Paper Awards. He was a recipient of Rockwell International's Engineer of the Year award in 1986. In 1998 he was selected as a Corporate Inventor of the year. Dr. Kerkman was a recipient of Purdue University's Outstanding Electrical Engineer award in 2000. In 2003 Dr. Kerkman received Rockwell Automation's Odo J. Struger award honoring engineers for long-term outstanding technical achievement / innovation, technical contribution and technical leadership in the field of automation. He was an IEEE IAS distinguished lecturer during 2000-2001 He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and at the Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. |
