Introduction

Members of the Electric Machines Committee (EMC) and its subcommittees and working groups are candidates for EMC Awards, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society (PES) Awards and IEEE Technical Field Awards.  The EMC Awards include the EMC Service Award, EMC Prize Paper and EMC Prize Working Group (Standard or Committee Report) which are awarded annually at the IEEE PES Annual Meeting; usually convened in July.  The EMC is especially interested in nominations for prize paper consideration.  The nomination should include the citation in the Transactions and a description of what sets this paper apart from all others receiving Transactions status. Contact nilssonn@sbcglobal.net with nominations.

IEEE PES Awards and IEEE Technical Field Awards are not nominated by the EMC but rather by IEEE members.  EMC members make good candidates for these awards and as can be seen below have been the honorees on many occasions.  For nomination forms, contact s.nason@ieee.org or srellis@ieee.org.  A brief description of these awards is summarized below in order of applicability to the EMC:

IEEE Nikola Tesla Award:  Major EMC participants who have received it include Tom Nehl, Shep Salon, Jim Kirtley, Nabeel Demerdash, Paul Dandeno, Tom Lipo, Carl Flick and Jay White.  The award was established in 1975 by the IEEE Board of Directors and it is presented for outstanding contributions to the generation and utilization of electric power.  Nikola Telsa, whom this awards honors, was a pioneer in many electrical areas but is probably best known as the inventor of the AC induction motor.

IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Award:  Major EMC participants who have received it include Osama Mohammed, Oleg Wasynczuk, Aziz Rahman and Paul Nippes.  This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of electromechanical energy conversion.  Cyril Veinott, whom this award honors, was responsible for numerous practical improvements in the design and application of electric motors over a fifty year time span.

IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award:  This award recognizes exceptional contributions to the development and advancement of standards in electrical and electronics engineering.  While no EMC member has been an honoree, other standards recognition has been given to EMC members such as Jim Michalec.

IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award:  The major EMC participant who has received this award is Jim Oliver.  The award was established in 1986 by the IEEE Board of Directors and it is presented for outstanding contributions in industrial systems engineering.  Richard Kaufmann, whom this award honors, made many contributions to industrial systems engineering.  Rotating machines are a major part of industrial systems.

Nominators should also contact IEEE about the PES Meritorious Service Award, PES Power Engineering Educator Award and PES Young Engineer Award among others.  Also, don’t forget to nominate an EMC colleague for Fellow status.

    This posting lists Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society (PES) Electric Machinery Committee (EMC) winners of the EMC Distinguished Service Award, EMC Prize Paper Award and EMC Working Group Recognition Award by year for the last several years.  These data were previously tracked by the IEEE Power Engineering Society Organization and Committee Directory in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and can be located in library copies of these directories.

Year         Winner
2011         Michael Brimsek
2010         Chuck Wilson
2009         Om Malik
2008         Azizur Rahman
2007         Isidor Kerszenbaum
2006         Osama Mohammed
2005         Lon Montgomery

Year        Author(s)                Title 

2011         Steve Pekarek,                 Incorporating Motion in Mesh-Based Magnetic
                 Michelle Bash, and            Equivalent Circuits, Transactions on Energy Con-
                 Joshua Williams                version, Vol. 25, No. 2, June 2010, pp. 329-338.

2010         Ray Bartnikas and             Analysis of Multistress-Accelerated Aged Stator
                 Richard Morin                    Bars Using a Three-Phase Test Arrangement, Trans. 
                                                            on EC, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 162-170.

2009         Rene Wamkeue,                Hybrid-State-Model-Based Time-Domain Identi-
                 Fred Baetscher and           fication of Synchronous Parameters from Satur-
                 Innocent Kamwa                ated Load Rejection Test Records, Trans. on EC,
                                                            Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 68-77.

2008          Haran Karmaker and         Investigation and Simulation of Fields in Large
                  Andrew Knight                   Salient-Pole Synchronous Machines with Skewed
                  Stator Slots,                       T on EC, Vol. 20, No. 3 pp.604-610.

2007         Subhasis Nandi,                 Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of
                 Hamid Toliyat  and              Electric Motors – A Review, Trans. on EC, Vol.
                 Xiaodong Li                         20, No. 4, pp. 719-729.


2006         Johann Haldemann           Transpositions in Stator Bars of Large Turbogen-
                                                            erators, Trans. on EC, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 553-560.

2005         G. Kliman, S. Lee,              A New Method for Synchronous Generator Core
                 M. Shah, M. Lusted,           Quality Evaluation, Trans. on EC, Vol. 29, No. 3,
                 and K. Nair                         pp. 576-582.

Year        WG Chair                Title 

2011         Haran Karmaker    IEEE Std. 115, Guide for Test Procedures for
                                                Synchronous Machines.

2010         William Bartley        IEEE Std. 1665, Guide for the Rewind of Synchro-
                                                nous Generators 50 Hz and 60 Hz, Rated 1 MVA
                                                and Above.

2008         Geoff Klempner      IEEE Std. 67-2005, Guide for the Operation and
                                                Maintenance of Turbine Generators.

2007         Jim Michalec          IEEE Std. C50.13-2005, IEEE Standard for Cylin-
                                                drical Rotor 50 Hz and 60 Hz Synchronous Mach-
                                                ines Rated 10 MVA and Above.

2006         Paul Dandeno        IEEE Std. 1110-2002, Guide for Synchronous Gen-
                                                erator Modeling Practices and Applications in
                                                Power System Stability Analysis.

Updated July 28, 2011
N. E. Nilsson

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