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Awards and Recognition

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PES Awards and Recognition Vahid Madani, PES Awards & Recognition Chair

Juan Carlos Montero, PES V. P. of Membership and Image

Saifur Rahman, PES President

John McDonald, PES Rep. and Zhou Xiaoxin, CSEE Rep. IEEE PES CSEE Yu-Hsiu Ku Electrical Engineering Award

Thomas Gwinn and Chris Brooks

IEEE PES IAS A. P. Seethapathy Rural Electrification Excellence Award

John McDaniel IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering

Bruce Wollenberg IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award

Nils Nilsson IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award

S. S. (Mani) Venkata

IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award

Christopher Root IEEE Power & Energy Society Leadership in Power Award

Melvin I. Olken IEEE Power & Energy Society Lifetime Achievement Award

Robert A. Dent IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award

Rambabu Adapa IEEE PES Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award

Stig Nilsson IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award

Ali Abur IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award

A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award

Mark G. Lauby IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award

Robert M. Pellegrino

IEEE PES Robert Noberini Distinguished Contributions to Power Engineering Professionalism Award

Wenyuan Li IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award

Ward T. Jewell IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award

Dennis Woodford

IEEE PES Uno Lamm HVDC Award

Sainab Taiwo Ninalowo

IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award

Mladen Kezunovic Fellows Chair

Jeffrey Nelson IEEE PES Technical Committee and Technical Council Awards

Christopher Diamond IEEE PES Chapter Awards

Award Committee Chairs

Alfredo Vaccaro

PES Awards & Recognition Vice Chair Trip Doggett

Membership & Image Deputy

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PES Awards Program

IEEE Technical Field Awards

Presented by Karen Bartleson, 2017 IEEE President

IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award pp. 8 & 9

Jinliang He

IEEE Transportation Technologies Award pp. 10 & 11

C. C. Chan

IEEE PES CSEE JOINT AWARD

Presented by Xie Mingliang, CSEE Deputy President & Secretary General and Saifur Rahman, PES President

IEEE PES CSEE Yu-Hsiu Ku Electrical Engineering Award pp. 12 & 13

Shirang Wei

IEEE POWER & ENERGY SOCIETY AWARDS

Presented by Vahid Madani, PES Awards & Recognition Chair

IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering pp. 14 & 15

Daniel Sabin

IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award pp. 16 & 17

Carson W. Taylor

IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award pp. 18 & 19

Steve Pekarek

IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award pp. 20 & 21

Michael D. Simms

IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award pp. 22 & 23

John J. Paserba

IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award pp. 24 & 25

Bruce Fardanesh

Welcome: Stefan Bird

President and CEO of Pacific Power, a division of PacificCorp

Presiding: Saifur Rahman

Power & Energy Society President

Introductions: Vahid Madani

PES Awards & Recognition Chair

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PES Awards Program

IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award pp. 26 & 27

Antonio J. Conejo

Class of 2018 Fellows Recognition pp. 28 - 31

IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award pp. 32 & 33

Ali Mehrizi-Sani

IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and pp. 34 & 35

Control Award

Vijay Vittal

IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable pp. 36 & 37

Energy Excellence Award

Nicholas W. Miller

IEEE PES Robert Noberini Distinguished Contributions to pp. 38 & 39

Power Engineering Professionalism Award

Elizabeth T. B. Johnston

IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award pp. 40 & 41

George J. Anders

IEEE PES Uno Lamm High Voltage Direct Current Award pp. 42 & 43

Hong Rao

IEEE PES Prize Paper Award pp. 44 & 45

Emilio Barocio Espejo, Bikash C. Pal, Nina F. Thornhill and

Arturo Roman Messina

IEEE PES Prize Paper Award pp. 46 & 47

Wilsun Xu, Tianyu Ding, Xin Li and Hao Liang

IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Awards

Outstanding Standard or Guide pp. 48 & 49

Roger Lee Whittaker (Chair)

Adi Mulawarman (Vice Chair)

Outstanding Technical Report pp. 50 & 51

Nikos Hatziargyriou (Chair)

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PES Awards Program

IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter Awards

Large Chapter - Boston Chapter p. 52

Small Chapter - Kerala Chapter p. 53

Class of 2018 Fellows Pictures pp. 54 & 55

PES Awards Staff Contact: Shanon Nason

[email protected]

Peer Recognition: Do you know someone deserving recognition?

www.ieee-pes.org/pes-communities/awards

On-Line Nominations

are being Accepted

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IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award

The IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and

Distribution Award was established in 1986 through an

agreement between Herman Halperin and the Board of

Directors of the IEEE. The funds were contributed by

Herman and Edna Halperin and are administered by

the IEEE Foundation, Inc.

From 1959 through 1986, the award for outstanding

contributions to the field of electric transmission and

distribution was named the William M. Habirshaw

Award. Herman Halperin was a recipient of the

Habirshaw Award in 1962. Mr. Halperin had a distin-

guished career with the Commonwealth Edison Com-

pany over a period of 40 years. Subsequently, he spent 15 years as a consulting engineer. He was

particularly noted for his pioneering contributions to the design and operation of electric plant

facilities and power cable systems.

This award recognizes outstanding contributions to electric transmission and distribution. The

award consists of a bronze medal, a certificate, and honorarium.

https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/technical-field-awards/halperin.html

Committee Members: Past Recipients: Based on available information Complete listing is available on website Charlie Henville (Chair) 2011 John H. Brunke

Trevor Blackburn 2012 Michel Duval

Maria Teresa 2013 Vijay Vittal

Ian Jandrell 2014 Willem Boone

Washington Neves 2015 Wolfram Boeck

Jade Wong 2016 George Anders

2017 George Dorwart Rockefeller

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IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award

JINLIANG HE

2018 Recipient

For contributions to lightning protection of power transmission systems,

including advancing analytic methods and innovation in line surge arresters

JINLIANG HE—The advanced modeling tools and in-

novative equipment developed by Jinliang He is making

drastic improvements in protecting high-voltage power

transmission lines from the effects of lightning strikes.

Using electromagnetic field theory, He developed light-

ning shielding failure analysis methods for extra- and

ultra-high-voltage transmission lines that are more accu-

rate than conventional electrogeometric analysis. Tack-

ling the difficult subject of upward lightning leaders

originating from the transmission lines, He’s models

more accurately simulate the real process of a lightning

strike, enabling optimal design of overhead power lines

to reduce lightning shielding failure events. He also pioneered polymeric surge arrestors that are

smaller, lighter, and safer to better suppress overvoltage due to lightning strikes and to effec-

tively reduce the cost of constructing ultra-high-voltage systems.

An IEEE Fellow, he is the Chang Jiang Scholars Distinguished Professor of China’s Ministry of

Education with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, Chi-

na.

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IEEE Transportation Technologies Award

The IEEE Transportation Technologies Award was

established in 2011. It can be presented to an individu-

al, a team, or multiple recipients up to three in number.

This award recognizes individuals who have advanced

technology within the fields of interest to the IEEE as

applied in transportation systems. In the evaluation

process, the following criteria will be considered: im-

pact on the profession and/or society; sustained tech-

nical or other contributions in monitoring, control,

power, navigation, and/or communication as applied in

transportation systems; leadership in accomplishing

worthwhile goal(s); other achievements as evidenced by

publications, patents, or other evidence; and quality of

nomination.

The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.

This award is sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics, Intelligent

Transportation Systems, Microwave Theory and Techniques, Power Electronics, Power & Ener-

gy, and Vehicular Technology Societies.

https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/technical-field-awards/transportation-technologies.html

Committee Members: Past Recipients: Based on available information Bruno Lequesne (Chair) 2014 Linos J. Jacovides

Thomas Jahns 2015 Robert Dean King

Cristina Olaverri-Monreal 2016 Petros Ioannou

Don Tan 2017 Claire Tomlin

Xuhui Wen

Edson Watanabe

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IEEE Transportation Technologies Award

C. C. CHAN

2018 Recipient

For contributions to the advancement of electric vehicle technologies

C. C. CHAN—One of the earliest international authorities

on electric vehicles, C. C. Chan has been at the forefront of

developing technologies enabling clean and efficient trans-

portation methods benefiting the environment. Chan has

made extraordinary contributions to the theoretical analysis

and optimization of electric machines, power electronic de-

vices, converters, special mechanical structures, and cooling

systems that meet the special needs of electric vehicles in-

cluding adaptive decoupling control, electromagnetic and

thermal field analysis, hybrid architectures, and energy man-

agement. Considered the first comprehensive book on the

topic, Chan’s Modern Electric Vehicle Technology provid-

ed the fundamentals for modern electric vehicle technology,

addressed key issues, and assessed their environmental impact. His recent research in smart

charging and vehicle-to-grid systems has gained attention from not only automakers but also

power utilities.

An IEEE Fellow, Chan is a professor with the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Elec-

trical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong.

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IEEE PES CSEE Yu-Hsiu Ku Electrical Engineering Award

The IEEE PES CSEE Yu-Hsiu Ku Electrical Engineer-

ing Award was initiated by the IEEE Power & Energy

Society (IEEE PES) and Chinese Society for Electrical

Engineering (CSEE) in 2009.

The award specifications include the recognition of a

professional who has demonstrated excellent perfor-

mance in the fields of electrical engineering, electrical

machinery and other related areas. The recipient's con-

tributions in electrical engineering shall be evaluated

based on technical innovations and well recognized con-

tributions in electrical power engineering and associated

fields.

The award was established to commemorate Dr. Yu-Hsiu KU (1902-2002), who made great contri-

butions in mathematics, electrical machinery and modern control theory during his longstanding

career in the USA and China.

Dr. Yu-Hsiu Ku was born in 1902; he entered Beijing Tsinghua School (the former Tsinghua Uni-

versity) at the age of 14. In 1923, he was sent to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT), USA. He was the first Chinese who obtained the doctor’s degree at MIT. Dr. Ku was the

recipient of the IEEE Lamme Medal (1972) and the IEEE Millennium Medal (1999). He was also

the founding member of CSEE.

This award includes a plaque and an honorarium of $2,000 USD.

Committee Members: Past Recipients: Based on available information John McDonald (Co-Chair) 2010 HE Jiali

Zhou Xiaoxin (Co-Chair) 2011 LOU Jiafa

Cheng Shiijie 2012 YU Erkeng

Mohammad Shahidehpour 2013 WANG Cheng

Jin Hongguang 2014 MA Weiming

Saifur Rahman 2015 ZHANG Boming

2016 SUN Guanghui

2017 CHEN Deshu

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IEEE PES CSEE Yu-Hsiu Ku Electrical Engineering Award

SHIRANG WEI

2018 Recipient

For pioneering contributions in clean and efficient power generation, rubber

ball cleaning, modern retrofitting of old units, coal gasification and

IGCC process design and optimization

SHIRANG WEI was born in March 1940 in Jiangxi

Province, China. He had studied in the Dept. of Pow-

er Machinery, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) from

1957 to 1966 and obtained his bachelor’s and master’s

degrees. WEI was working with Xi’an Thermal Power

Research Institute Co. Ltd. (TPRI) from 1966 till his

retirement in 2000. He served as Deputy Chief Engi-

neer of TPRI and was accredited senior engineer of

professor level. He was also employed as part-time

professor and doctoral supervisor by XJTU. In 2011,

WEI was elected as one of the first CSEE Fellows by

the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering

(CSEE).

WEI has been engaged in research and application of thermal power engineering of power

plants. He has made pioneering contributions to high efficiency and clean power generation

technology. Notably, he has made outstanding achievements in development and wide applica-

tion of advanced cleaning technology for condenser of steam turbine; modern retrofitting for

the system of preventing water flowing into steam turbines and for flow path of turbines of old

units; co-invention of two-stage dry feed coal gasifier; and simulation, analysis and optimization

of IGCC system, and providing technical support for the IGCC demonstration power station

with independent intellectual property rights and promoting development of clean coal power

generation technology in China. WEI was honored as model worker by the National Electric

Power Corporation in 1999. He has won over 10 National Science and Technology Awards and

ministerial scientific and technological awards.

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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 rec-

ognize 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 awarded annually by the IEEE PES to recognize the

individual who has made a remarkable engineering contribution to the field of distribution tech-

nology. 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.

Committee Members: Past Recipients: Based on available information Complete listing is available on website J. S. McDaniel (Chair) 2010 Phillip P. Barker

R. C. Dugan 2011 Lee Taylor

L. Taylor 2012 Rick Bush

P. Barker 2013 John McDaniel

D. Ward 2014 Thomas J. Tobin

T. Short 2015 Elisabeth A. Tobin

2016 John J. Grainger

2017 James D. Bouford

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IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering

DANIEL SABIN

2018 Recipient

For contributions in power quality monitoring and related indicators for fault

location in distribution systems

DANIEL SABIN, P.E. IEEE Fellow is a Principal Engi-

neer and Software Architect with Electrotek Concepts in

Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. Dan automates distribu-

tion system fault location by designing and developing

engineering algorithms and software libraries for

PQView®. This software can download, manage, and

analyze billions of measurements from microprocessor

relays, power quality monitors, digital fault recorders,

SCADA historians, and more.

Dan developed the first software module to combine

measurements from power quality monitors & micropro-

cessor relays, distribution circuit models, and geographic

information system (GIS) to provide automatic distribution fault location based on reactance calcu-

lations. Electric distribution operation departments throughout North America use this software to

reduce time finding overhead and underground faults, lowering O&M expenses, and reducing cus-

tomer average interruption time (CAIDI).

Dan Sabin currently chairs the IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Committee. He also chairs

the IEEE P1159.3 Working Group, which is revising the Power Quality Data Interchange Format

(PQDIF), used worldwide to exchange measurements between power quality monitoring systems.

Previously, Dan was a project manager with the Electric Power Research Institute and its subsidi-

ary EPRI Solutions. He completed power quality monitoring and distribution fault location re-

search projects in EPRI’s Power Delivery and Utilization Sector.

Dan has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Insti-

tute and a Master of Engineering Degree in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytech-

nic Institute. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Tennessee.

Dan has been the vice chair of the IEEE Distribution Subcommittee, chair of the IEEE Power

Quality Subcommittee, and chair of the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 22 on Power

Quality. In 2015, IEEE named him a Fellow for leadership in power quality database management

and analysis software. In 2006, he received an EPRI Chauncey Award for outstanding achieve-

ments in science and technology.

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IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award

This award recognizes outstanding Power System

Engineering contributions. Electrification is the

most important 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 throughout the world. These devel-

opments come from the work of dedicated engi-

neers who have devoted their careers to the utiliza-

tion and enhancement of high-voltage bulk power

systems.

The award is named for a man who contributed

greatly to power system engineering during a long

career. His contributions to the technical advancements of Power System Dynamics during the

20th century are unequaled.

The award consists of an engraved plaque and an honorarium of $5,000 USD.

Committee Members: Past Recipients:

Based on available information Complete listing is available on website

B. Wollenberg (Chair) 2006 John Undrill

E. Larsen 2007 Richard Farmer

N. Miller 2008 Einar V. Larsen

D. Nordell 2009 Ralph Masiello

D. Novosel 2011 Hermann W. Dommel

2012 Leonard (Len) Garver

2014 Joe Hong Chow

2017 Olgun Alsaç and Brian Stott

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IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award

CARSON W. TAYLOR

2018 Recipient

For contributions to the engineering and deployment of control systems and

solutions to improve power grid stability

CARSON W. TAYLOR joined Bonneville Power Administra-

tion in 1969 after earning degrees from the University of

Wisconsin and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and serving

as an U.S. Army Signal Corps officer. His expertise includes

power system control and protection, system dynamic per-

formance, ac/dc interactions, and power system planning

and operation. Major projects include the Wide-Area Con-

trol System (WACS) on-line real-time demonstration using

phasor measurements, and Pacific Northwest underfrequen-

cy and undervoltage load shedding installations. He retired

from BPA in 2006 as a Principal Engineer, Transmission

Operations and Planning.

In 1986, he established Carson Taylor Seminars, and pre-

sented 72 industry seminars in 17 countries between 1986

and 2009. Most seminars were three day with Mr. Taylor as sole instructor. He has also been a

consultant for several companies.

Mr. Taylor is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and has served on two

National Research Council technical committees. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, was chairman

of the IEEE Power System Stability Controls Subcommittee for many years, and was the 2009

recipient of the IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution award. He is a

Distinguished Member of CIGRÉ, was the convenor of three CIGRÉ task forces on power sys-

tem voltage and angle stability, and received the U.S. National Committee Philip Sporn Award in

2009. He served on the NERC Interconnection Dynamics Work Group and on the WECC

Modeling and Validation Work Group for many years.

He is the author of the EPRI-sponsored book Power System Voltage Stability (McGraw-Hill).

The book is translated into Chinese. Mr. Taylor has authored or co-authored numerous technical

papers.

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IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award

This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of

electromechanical energy conversion. Research and develop-

ments on electric motors continued throughout the 20th centu-

ry and into the 21st to the point that such devices have now be-

come an integral part of our lives. The current ubiquitous pres-

ence 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 responsible for numerous

practical improvements in the design and application of electric

motors over 50 years. Dr. Cyril Veinott made seminal contribu-

tions to the development of poly-phase induction motors, 400

Hz aircraft motors, and was a pioneer in the application of digi-

tal computers to the design of electric motors. He was responsi-

ble for the early measurements and mitigation of electric motor

noise. He helped write many IEEE and NEMA standards for electric motors. He was the first per-

son 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.



N. Nilsson (Chair) 2010 O. A. Mohammed

J. Edmonds 2011 Stephen D. Umans

S. Umans 2012 J. Sheung-Chun Hsu

M. Sedlak 2013 Clyde V. Maughan

S. Sudhoff 2014 James S. Edmonds

2015 Babak Fahimi

2016 William R. McCown

2017 Gérard-André Capolino

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IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award

STEVE PEKAREK

2018 Recipient

For contributions to modeling and design of electric machinery

STEVE PEKAREK received his PhD in Electrical Engi-

neering from Purdue University in 1996 where he is pres-

ently the Nick Trbovich Professor of Electrical and Com-

puter Engineering. As a faculty member he has been the

principal investigator on a number of successful research

programs including projects for the Navy, NASA, Con-

verteam, Raytheon, Kohler, Houston Mechatronics, and

Delphi Automotive Systems. The primary focus of these

investigations has been the analysis and design of electric

machinery, drive systems, and power electronic based ar-

chitectures for finite inertia power and propulsion sys-

tems. He is the co-author of two textbooks on electric

machinery, an IEEE Fellow and an active member of the

IEEE Power & Energy Society. He has served as the Technical Chair of the 2007 IEEE Applied

Power Electronics Conference and Technical Chair of the 2013 IEEE Electric Machines and

Drives Conference. He is an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.

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The IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Auto-

mation Award was established to recognize individuals who

have made a significant contribution 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 Doug-

las M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award recogniz-

es 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 scholarship.



S.S. Mani Venkata (Chair) 2010 Robert W. Uluski

Camron Smallwood 2011 Cameron Lee Smallwood

Tim Qualheim 2012 Anil Pahwa

Christopher McCarthy 2013 Nokhum Markushevich

Anil Pahwa 2014 George Larry Clark

Mohammad Shahidehpour 2015 S. S. (Mani) Venkata

2016 Mohammad Shahidehpour

2017 David Wade

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MICHAEL SIMMS

2018 Recipient

For leadership in advancement of voltage and reactive voltage measurements verifica-

tion for distribution system operation and automation

MICHAEL SIMMS is the Manager of Midwest Grid Manage-

ment at Duke Energy and is responsible for the company’s

Grid Automation and Application functions in Ohio, Ken-

tucky and Indiana.

Duke Energy is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. with the

Electric Utilities and Infrastructure business unit serving

approximately 7.5 million retail electric customers in six

states in the Southeast and Midwest. Duke Energy is an in-

dustry leader in the implementation of smart distribution

devices and advanced smart grid applications.

Mike began his career with Duke Energy and predecessor

companies in control and protection and has more than 35

years’ utility power engineering experience in the areas of power quality, meter engineering, dis-

tribution system planning, distribution operations and grid management.

Mike’s recent experience has been focused on distribution grid automation with specific empha-

sis on Volt/var Optimization. Duke Energy has successfully gained utility commission approval

and deployed Volt/var Optimization systems in multiple states. Mike played a key role in the

distribution automation business case development, deployment and integration of distribution

automation devices for multiple jurisdictions, led the implementation of DMS based integrated

Volt/var systems and developed measurement and verification protocols for Volt/var Optimiza-

tion operation. Mike has also actively shared his Volt/var Optimization experience across the

industry and worked to develop standards and guidelines to promote Volt/var Optimization un-

derstanding and adoption.

Mike is an IEEE PES Senior Member and has been involved in IEEE for over 25 years. Mike is

currently active on the IEEE Smart Distribution Working Group, IEEE Volt/var Task Force

and IEEE PSIM Sensor Working Group. Mike is Chair of the IEEE Volt/var Task Force and is

a technical advisor for NEETRAC and EPRI.

Mike has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and Applied Tech-

nical Sciences from Northern Kentucky University and is a registered professional engineer in

the State of Ohio.

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IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award

The IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award is given to a PES Member who has made outstand-

ing contributions in leadership, technical activities, and educational activities of the IEEE Power

& Energy Society.

The selection of the awardee is based on outstanding and meritorious service to the IEEE Pow-

er & Energy Society.

The IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award consists of a plaque and travel subsidy of up to

$1,000 USD for the recipient to attend the presentation ceremony.



Robert Dent (Chair) 2008 John W. Estey

Murty P. Bhavaraju 2009 Melvin I. Olken

John McDonald 2010 Frank E. Schink

Roger Sullivan 2012 Saifur Rahman

B. Don Russell 2013 Wanda K. Reder

Virginia Sulzberger 2014 Hans E. Weinrich

Hans Weinrich 2015 John D. McDonald

Wanda Reder 2017 Murty P. Bhavaraju

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IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award

JOHN J. PASERBA

2018 Recipient

For sustained technical and professional contributions to the power industry and PES

JOHN J. PASERBA joined Mitsubishi Electric Power

Products Inc. in 1998 and is presently the Vice-

President, Power Systems Group. He began his career

with General Electric’s Power Systems Energy Consult-

ing Department.

John is a Fellow of IEEE and served on the PES Gov-

erning Board as Vice-President of Meetings Activities

from 2006-to-2009. He was Secretary/Vice-Chair/

Chair/Past-Chair for the PES Power System Dynamic

Performance Committee (PSDP) from 2002-to-2010,

including 2 years on the PES Technical Council. He

served as Chair/Secretary of the PES Power System

Stability Subcommittee from 1997-to-2002. He sat on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Trans-

actions on Power Systems and Power & Energy Magazine, where he was Guest Editor for the

September/October 2004 and September/October 2006 issues, and presently serves as the As-

sociate Editor, History (2018-to-present). John served as General Chair of the PES 2004 (New

York) and 2006 (Atlanta) Power Systems Conference and Exposition (PSCE) and served as the

Technical Program Chair (TPC) for the 2002 PES Winter Power Meeting (New York). He was

the PSDP Technical Committee Program Chair (TCPC) for 9 PES Winter, Summer, and T&D

Conferences from 2000-to-2010. He was the General Chair/Treasurer for the PES Joint Tech-

nical Committee (JTCM) meetings from 2006-to-2009. John has been active in numerous IEEE

PES Technical Subcommittees, Working Groups, and Task Forces during his career. He serves

on the PES Prabha Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award Committee (2011-to-

present) and served on the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering Award Committee from 2015-to-

2017.

John has co-authored over 60 technical publications, including several book chapters. Since

2008, he has taught a graduate course on Power System Transients as an adjunct instructor at

the University of Pittsburgh. In 2010 he was named the Outstanding Engineer by the IEEE

PES Pittsburgh Chapter. John is a member of CIGRE and earned the distinction of Distin-

guished Member in 2012.

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IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award

Power electronics and other static controllers are making a

major impact on future power systems through application

in transmission, distribution, and small generation. Applica-

tions in transmission and distribution include HVDC,

FACTS and Custom Power.

This award was established to recognize individuals who

have made a major contribution to the state of the art of

FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission System) technology and

its applications. The IEEE definition of FACTS is: Alternat-

ing Current Transmission Systems incorporating power

electronics-based and other static controllers to enhance

controllability and power transfer capability. By this defini-

tion, the FACTS concept, in addition to the hardware, soft-

ware and applications work carried out since its introduction, incorporates considerable prior

work done on Static Var Compensators and other static Controllers.

This award consists of a plaque, medal and honorarium of $2,000 USD.

This award is funded by contributions from the following:



Stig Nilsson (Chair) 2003 Dusan Povh Bjarne Anderson 2004 Colin D. Schauder Mojtaba Mohaddes 2005 Masatoshi Takeda Georg Pilz 2006 Abdel-Aty Edris Edson Watanabe 2007 Aniruddha M. Gole G. F. Tang 2008 Xiaoxin Zhou Ben Mehraban 2010 Chris Horwill Manfredo Corea Lima 2011 John J. Paserba, Jr. 2012 Stig L. Nilsson 2013 Edson H. Watanabe 2014 Ned Mohan 2015 Richard Piwko

Hingorani Power Electronics Electric Power Research Institute Westinghouse GEC-UK

Siemens-Germany GE Power Systems Joyce Hingorani

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IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award

BRUCE FARDANESH

2018 Recipient

For research, design, and implementation of the Convertible Static Compensator

BRUCE FARDANESH is the Vice President of System Plan-

ning and Analysis at the New York Power Authority (NYPA)

where he directs all activities related to power system plan-

ning, modeling, analytics and internal system standards. Pre-

viously as the Chief Electrical Engineer he managed opera-

tions planning, system protection and control, power systems

equipment and substations and metering, supporting an an-

nual budget of about $200M in O&M and Capital projects.

NYPA is a State Authority and operates close to 6000 MWs

of generation and 1400 circuit miles of bulk power transmis-

sion from 765 kV to 115 kV throughout New York State.

Prior to this role, as the CTO of NYPA, he was responsible

for strategic and tactical decision making in the direction of

research and technical support of generation and transmission to maximize benefits realized both

in terms of reduced O&M, and enhanced system reliability, security, and safety. He was a con-

tributor to specification, procurement, installation and commissioning of the world’s most ad-

vanced power grid controller, the Convertible Static Compensator (CSC) at NYPA’s Marcy 345

kV substation in central NY. The CSC was designed to relieve a major 345kV transmission bot-

tleneck in NY and increase power transfer capability of the system by 200 MW. The develop-

ment and installation of the CSC was a $55 million 4-year project with a number of first-time

developments and applications. He is the author or co-author of over 100 Journal and Confer-

ence papers as well as many technical reports. His professional activities include power system

optimization and optimal operation, development of new power system monitoring, control and

analysis tools and techniques utilizing phasor measurements including a Direct Non-Iterative

State Estimator. He has also been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in power systems

for over 25 years. Bruce is a Fellow of IEEE.

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IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award

This award recognizes excellence in classroom teaching, course development and the promotion

of student, local, transnational and technical activities.

To be eligible for this award, an individual must provide classroom instruction in electrical engi-

neering 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 endorsed

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.



Ali Abur (Chair) 2010 Richard G. Farmer Ram Adapa 2011 Thomas J. Overbye Ross Baldick 2012 Mohammad Shahidehpour Mariesa Crow 2013 Saifur Rahman Claudio Canizares 2014 Ali Abur M. Ni 2015 Ross Baldick Thomas Overbye 2016 Mariesa L. Crow Saifur Rahman 2017 Claudio Adrian Cañizares Mohammad Shahidehpour

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IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award

ANTONIO J. CONEJO

2018 Recipient

For contributions in education for analytic tools and methods for electricity markets

ANTONIO J. CONEJO is a professor at The Ohio

State University, OH, US, received a B.S. from Uni-

versity P. Comillas, Madrid, Spain, an M.S. from MIT,

US, and a Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technol-

ogy, Sweden. He has published over 200 papers in

refereed journals and is the author or coauthor of

books published by Springer, John Wiley, McGraw-

Hill and CRC. He has been the principal investigator

of many research projects financed by public agencies

and the power industry and has supervised 21 PhD

theses. He is an IEEE Fellow and a former Editor-in-

Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

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IEEE Fellows Class of 2018

Haithem Abu-rub for contributions to power electronic converters for renewable energy

applications

Karen L. Butler-Purry

for contributions to expanding minority participation in power systems education

Leo F. Casey

for contributions to high-speed power electronic interfaces for grid-tied distributed resources

Sherman Chan

for contributions to power system modeling and analysis tools for protective relaying

Gianfranco Chicco

for contributions to data analytics for smart metering

Ehab Fahmy El-Saadany

for contributions to distributed generation planning, operation and control

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James Feltes

for contributions to modelling the dynamic response of power generation systems

Hashem Hashemian

for leadership in developing technologies for nuclear reactor monitoring

Haibo He

for contributions to adaptive learning

Anil K. Jampala

for contributions to the utilization of synchrophasors in energy management systems

Noriko Kawakami

for contributions to large-capacity power converters and applications

Richard Lukaszewski

for contributions to the application of power electronic devices for variable frequency drives

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Zhenqiang Ma

for contributions to flexible and biodegradable microwave electronics

Hideki Motoyama

for contributions to lightning protection and insulation coordination of electric power systems

Hans-Peter Nee

for contributions to silicon carbide power electronics and modular multilevel converters

Patrick Panciatici

for contributions to power systems analysis software

Ronghai Qu

for contributions to computational techniques for the analysis of environmental sustainability

Eugeniusz Rosolowski

for contributions to education in power system modeling and protection

Alex Schneider

for contribution to transmission and generation failure modeling

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Hongbin Sun

for contributions to algorithms and technologies for energy management systems

Marcelo E. Valdes

for contributions to improving the safety and reliability of low voltage power systems

Peng Wang

for contributions to power system reliability and hybrid AC/DC micro-grids

Philip B. Winston

for development of standards in power system protection reliability

Committee Members:

Mladen Kezunovic (Chair) K. Clark R. Dugan A. Exposito-Gomez B. Fardanesh S. Fukui E. Litvinov K. G. Morison

W. Reder A. Simoes Costa T. Van Cutsem V. Vittal S. Ward B. Zhang

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IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award

This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the leadership of technical 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 engineer-

ing achievements.

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 elec-

trical engineering program or equivalent. He or she can be nominated by any PES member and

must be 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 pro-

gram in electrical engineering or equivalent to receive a $2,000 USD scholarship for an electrical

engineering undergraduate.

(Through 2007, the recipient received the Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award)



A. P. S. Meliopoulos (Chair) 2010 Luiz A. Barroso

C. DeMarco 2011 Ted K. A. Brekken

M. Ingram 2012 Alejandro D. Dominguez Garcia

J. Mitra 2013 Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann

S. Widergren 2014 Shay Bahramirad

2015 Siddharth Suryanarayanan

2016 Kory W. Hedman

2017 Le Xie

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IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award

ALI MEHRIZI-SANI

2018 Recipient

For contributions in control and management of renewable energy resources

ALI MEHRIZI-SANI received the B.Sc. degrees in

electrical engineering and petroleum engineering

from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran,

both in 2005. He received the M.Sc. degree from

the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada,

and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toron-

to, Toronto, ON, Canada, both in electrical engi-

neering, in 2007 and 2011.

He is currently an Associate Professor at Washing-

ton State University, Pullman, WA, USA, which he

joined in 2012. He has held several Guest Professor-

ship appointments at Graz University of Technolo-

gy (TU Graz), Graz, Austria, in 2014, 2016, and

2018. His areas of interest include power system applications of power electronics and integra-

tion of renewable energy resources.

Dr. Mehrizi-Sani is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, and IEEE Power Engineering Let-

ters. He is also an editor of Wiley International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems. He

is the Chair of IEEE Task Force on Dynamic System Equivalents and was the Secretary of CI-

GRE Working Group C4.34 on Application of PMUs for Monitoring Power System Dynamic

Performance. He is the recipient of the 2018 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award,

2018 ASEE PNW Outstanding Teaching Award, 2017 IEEE Mac E. Van Valkenburg Early

Career Teaching Award, 2017 WSU EECS Early Career Excellence in Research, 2016 WSU

VCEA Reid Miller Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, and

2007 Dennis Woodford prize for his M.Sc. thesis. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Connaught

Scholar at the University of Toronto. He has so far published 40 journal papers and 39 confer-

ence papers and has received, as PI or Co-PI, $5.5M in research funding.

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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 understand its

nonlinear behavior as well as develop and deploy sys-

tem controls vital to manage dynamic system behav-

ior to ensure reliability. Even today, as the bulk power

system evolves to accommodate an unprecedented

change in resource mix and technology innovation, it

is critical to manage integration of new and emergent

technologies. Without this ability to model the general

dynamic behavior of the bulk power system and de-

vise suitable coordinated systems controls, the mod-

ernization of the bulk power system would be inhibit-

ed. 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 development 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 tangi-

ble and visible achievements in this area.

The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $3,000 USD.

Committee Members: Past Recipients: Based on available information Complete listing is available on website

Mark Lauby (Chair) 2014 Peter W. Sauer Nalin Pahalawaththa 2015 Nelson Martins C. Y. Chung 2016 Göran Anderson Mohamed Rashwan 2017 Nikolaos Hatziargyriou Nelson Martins John Paserba Pouyan Pourbeik

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IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award

VIJAY VITTAL

2018 Recipient

For contributions to analytical techniques for power system dynamic performance

analysis, enhancement, resilience and control

VIJAY VITTAL was born in Bengaluru, India. He received

the B.E. degree from the B.M.S. College of Engineering,

Bangalore, India, in 1977; the M.Tech. degree from the

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1979;

and the Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University, Ames,

in 1982 all in electrical engineering.

In 2005 he joined Arizona State University where he is the

Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor in the School of Electrical,

Computer and Energy Engineering. From 1982 – 2004 he

served as a faculty member at Iowa State University.

His research interests are in the area of power system dy-

namics, dynamic security assessment of power systems,

power system operation and control, and integration of renewable resources. He is the author

and co-author of several papers in his field. He has co-authored the following textbooks, in

1992 Power System Transient Stability Assessment Using the Transient Energy Function

Method with A. A. Fouad; in 1999 Power System Analysis with A. R. Bergen; in 2012 Grid

Integration and Dynamic Impact of Wind Energy with Raja Ayyanar; and in 2014 Application

of Time-Synchronized Measurements in Power System Transmission Networks with Mladen

Kezunovic, Sakis Meliopoulos and Vaithianathan Venkatasubramanian.

He is a recipient of the 1985 U.S. Presidential Young Investigator Award. In 1997, he was

elected as a Fellow of IEEE. He was also the recipient of the 2000 IEEE Power Engineering

Society Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award. He was elected to the U.S. National

Academy of Engineering in 2004. From 2005-2011 he served as the Editor in Chief of the

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. In 2013 he was awarded the IEEE Herman Halperin

T&D Field Award. In 2018 he received the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group

(UVIG) Achievement Award.

Since 2005 Dr. Vittal has served as the Director of the Power System Engineering Research

Center, a U.S. National Science Foundation, Industry/University Collaborative Research Cen-

ter.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award

This award, established in 2011, recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of developing,

utilizing and integrating renewable energy resources, particularly those that have minimal carbon

footprints, in the national and global energy scenarios. Feeding the electrical energy generated

from innovative conversion technologies into conventional utility grids and operating the com-

bined system satisfactorily, plus the effective use of locally available renewable energy resources

in remote and rural areas to improve the human living environment are major components in

this mix. The need to stimulate and encourage activity towards these goals is the primary objec-

tive of this award.

The award is funded through a quasi-endowment fund established through the IEEE Founda-

tion and provided by an External Source/Donor. A corpus 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 contribu-

tions in the field of renewable energy.

This award consists of a plaque and honorarium of $1,000 USD.

Committee Members: Past Recipients: Based on available information

Ward Jewell (Chair) 2012 Ned Mohan

Vladimir Miranda 2013 Vladimir Miranda

Ziyad Salameh 2014 J. Charles Smith

Charlie Smith 2015 Ziyad M. Salameh

Ned Mohan 2016 M. Hashem Nehrir

L. Bertling Tjernberg 2017 Thomas S. Key

E. Muljadi

Rama Ramakumar

K. Strunz

Hashem Nehrir

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IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award

NICHOLAS W. MILLER

2018 Recipient

For modeling, performance analysis and advanced control developments of

wind turbine generators, and large-scale renewable integration

NICHOLAS W. MILLER is a Principal with HickoryLedge

LLC, a consultancy providing technical services. Nick is an

internationally known power system engineer, with specialty

in integration of wind and solar power to bulk power sys-

tems. Mr. Miller spent 3/8 of a century with GE, finishing

his final decade of practice in the role of Senior Technical

Director for GE Energy Consulting. In the last 16 years at

GE, he led analytical developments for integration of GE

Wind Turbine-Generators into power systems, leading efforts

to develop new applications, controls and systems for large-

scale coordination of wind and solar generation with other

system resources. He lectured and provided consultation on

wind and solar power integration to governments and institu-

tions in more than three dozen countries. He was the leader of the landmark Western Transient

Stability and Frequency Response Study. He was a principal on the New York State Wind study,

the US DOE Western Wind and Solar Integration Study, the New England Wind Integration

Study, as well as multiple Wind and Solar related projects in Hawaii. He worked with the North

American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) on development of metrics and practice for

Essential Reliability Services. He pioneered new techniques for the analysis and control of transi-

ent and voltage stability of very large power systems. Mr. Miller holds degrees in Electric Power

Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and a

member of CIGRÉ. He has received a number of industry awards and is the 2017 recipient of

the prestigious GE Edison Award for advancements in Renewable Energy. He received the

2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Energy Systems Integration Group. He has au-

thored over 160 technical papers and articles and holds twenty US patents for power control de-

vices, solar and wind technologies.

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IEEE PES Robert Noberini Distinguished Contributions to Power Engineering

Professionalism Award

The IEEE PES Robert Noberini Distinguished Contribu-

tions to Power Engineering Professionalism Award was es-

tablished in 2006 to honor members of the power engineer-

ing profession for long term dedicated effort and outstand-

ing accomplishments in advancing the aims of IEEE profes-

sional activities in the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES).

The award is named for Robert Noberini in recognition of

his many years of service to IEEE and PES.

To be eligible, recipients should be at least IEEE Senior

Members and professionals of engineering. Selection for the

award is based on the dedication, effort, quality and most

particularly on clearly successful accomplishment and

achievement in advancing the social, economic, legal and ethical aims of the IEEE professional

activities. In particular, factors to be considered include time as IEEE volunteer, contributions

to Power Engineering activities, contributions to IEEE activities, IEEE member grade and

PES membership (recommended).

This award consists of a plaque, and a travel stipend of up to $1,500 USD.

Committee Members: Past Recipients: Based on available information

Robert Pellegrino (Chair) 2008 Frank E. Schink

Robert Dent 2011 Leann Kostek

Melvin Olken 2015 John J. Paserba

W. Perlman

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IEEE PES Robert Noberini Distinguished Contributions to Power Engineering

Professionalism Award

ELIZABETH T. B. JOHNSTON

2018 Recipient

For advancement of professional, technical and humanitarian initiatives

Elizabeth T. B. Johnston is the Chief Electrical Engineer of

an architecture and engineering consulting firm in Fairbanks,

Alaska. Elizabeth is a registered electrical and fire protection

engineer. She earned both her BS in Electrical Engineering

and MS in Engineering Management from the University of

Alaska, Fairbanks. Her favorite projects include energy effi-

ciency challenges, working on power reliability in remote set-

tings, and lighting design. In both her professional practice

and role as an IEEE volunteer, she has built a history of in-

volvement with challenging projects of all scales. She credits

IEEE with keeping her oratory and writing skills sharp and

for giving her connections to an amazing and diverse group

of international colleagues.

Her leadership positions with IEEE have included Editor-in-Chief of Potentials Magazine, his-

torical milestones coordinator, student activities coordinator, and numerous regional and board

level positions. She began volunteering with IEEE as a student.

Through her papers and columns and leadership of engineering public visibility and student initi-

atives, she champions causes for her IEEE passions: history, students, and humanitarian activi-

ties specifically with a power and energy focus.

Elizabeth has been awarded the IEEE Young Professionals Achievement Award 2011, the IEEE

Membership and Geographic Activities Achievement Award 2009, and the IEEE Alaska Section

Community Service Award 2009.

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IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award

This award was created in honor of Roy Billinton, Professor

Emeritus at University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Dr. Billin-

ton is an IEEE Life Fellow, Foreign Associate of U.S. Na-

tional 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 courses on system reliabil-

ity, and served on IEEE PES committees and other industry

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 include modeling, analysis and data development to quantify power

system reliability, and, assessments to plan and operate reliable electric utility generation, trans-

mission, distribution systems or interconnected power system grids.

The award has been funded by the past students and other associates of Dr. Roy Billinton and

selected organizations. Management of the funds are handled 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.


W. Li (Chair) 2010 Chanan Singh

A. M. Leite da Silva 2011 Wenyuan Li

R. Allan 2012 Armando M. Leite da Silva

C. Grigg 2013 Ronald N. Allen

M. Lauby 2014 Mark G. Lauby

2015 Murty P. Bhavaraju

2016 Robert James Ringlee

2017 Alton DeWitt (Dee) Patton

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IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award

GEORGE J. ANDERS

2018 Recipient

For contributions in development of probabilistic models in power system planning

and equipment remaining life

GEORGE J. ANDERS has been working on application of

probability methods in power system analysis and design for

the past 42 years. He is currently president of Anders Consult-

ing Ltd. in Toronto, a full professor in the Electrical Engineer-

ing Department at the Technical University of Lodz in Poland

and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is the

author of a monograph on application of the probability meth-

ods in power system and a co-author of a chapter in a book on

reliability-based substation monitoring systems placement. He

is also a co-editor of a book on emerging methodologies to

meet modern power systems reliability challenges. Dr. Anders

works also on power cable rating issues and he is the author of

two monographs on this subject. He published about 50 IEEE Transactions papers on power

system reliability topics.

Dr. Anders conducts seminars around the world on cable ratings, power system reliability evalua-

tion and risk analysis in projects.

Dr. Anders is a recipient of 2016 IEEE Herman Halperin award in the field of transmission and

distribution and 2016 Engineering Excellent Award from The Ontario Professional Engineers

Association. In 2014 he also received a PMAPS Merit award from the Society for the Applica-

tion of Probability Methods in Power System.

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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 spe-

cial recognition of those outstanding engineers and scientists

who have contributed to the advancement of high voltage

direct current (HVDC) technology.

The award is named for the man most responsible for the re-

search and development that led to the first practical applica-

tion 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 volt-

age converters, and a fundamental system technology. This

outstanding engineer and scientist was Dr. Uno Lamm, an

IEEE Fellow 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 med-

alist every year, the subcommittee solicited additional funds from selected manufacturers and elec-

tric utility companies.

The IEEE PES Uno Lamm HVDC Award consists of a bronze medal, a plaque and honorarium of

$1,000 USD.


D. Woodford (Chair) 2008 Willis F. Long

H. Bjorklund 2009 Marcio Szechtman

H. Huang 2010 Mohamad M. Rashwan

R. L. Koropatrick 2012 Bjarne R. Andersen

L. Bertling Tjernberg 2014 Jose Antonio Jardini

2015 Rainer Marquardt

2017 Zehong Liu

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IEEE PES Uno Lamm High Voltage Direct Current Award

HONG RAO

2018 Recipient

For pioneering contribution to the ultra HVDC technology and for optimized

AC/DC hybrid operation solutions

HONG RAO, Chief Specialist of China Southern Power Grid

(CSG), has been dedicated to HVDC project design, con-

struction and technology research and development (R&D)

for over 30 years. It is under his supervision that more than

a dozen HVDC projects have been constructed.

In the early stage of HVDC, Mr. Rao directed the develop-

ment of China’s first HVDC designing program and helped

to build up the world’s largest real-time digital simulation

platform for AC/DC hybrid bulk power systems. Where-

after, he led the world’s first ±800kV Yunnan-Guangzhou

UHVDC project, and his research on circuit topology and

insulation coordination built the foundation of many mod-

ern UHVDC projects. In 2010, he made a proposal for developing the world’s first multi-

terminal VSC-HVDC project for wind farms integration, and it was commissioned in 2013 and

was remarked as a pioneering project for future DC-grid. Based on years of study on multi-

infeed HVDC impacts and counter-measures, Mr. Rao has offered practical solutions for operat-

ing complex AC/DC hybrid bulk power system with application of STATCOM and VSC-

HVDC technologies, which have been applied to and proven effective in the world’s largest

AC/DC paralleled power system. Those solutions could support the design and operation of

AC/DC hybrid power system worldwide for further application of HVDC technologies. At pre-

sent, he is leading the innovative work of the ±800kV multi-terminal LCC-VSC hybrid UHVDC

project looking for the potential grid structure for future power supply system.

As Regular Member (RM) of CIGRE Study Committee B4 (DC and Power Electronics), chair of

IEEE 1899 working group, convener of IEC 60919-1 joint maintenance team, Mr. Rao has also

contributed his experience to world application and development of HVDC technologies.

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IEEE PES Prize Paper Award

Each year each Technical Committee of the Technical Council is entitled and encouraged to

award the author(s) of an outstanding technical paper with the IEEE PES Technical Committee

Prize Paper Award. Each committee is also encouraged to nominate a paper from their commit-

tee 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 nominations 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 sin-

gle author; $100 USD each for two (2) or more authors.

This award is funded by the IEEE PES Endowment Fund, managed by the IEEE Foundation.

"A Dynamic Mode Decomposition Framework for Global Power System Oscillation Analysis"

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,

Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 2902-2912, Nov 2015

Authors: Emilio Barocio Espejo, Bikash C. Pal,

Nina F. Thornhill and Arturo Roman Messina

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EMILIO BAROCIO ESPEJO, in 2013, was distinguished with the Marie-

Curie Incoming International Fellowship at the Imperial College of Lon-

don. There, I was involved on academic-industry project, composed by

the interdisciplinary experts, industry sector and recognized universities.

This interaction opened questions, about the necessity of the industry to

integrate new algorithms to process large data sets, which may help to

monitor the EPS. To carry out, this challenging task, we made interdisci-

plinary research, adapting algorithms from the fluids area to power sys-

tems.

BIKASH C. PAL is Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College Lon-

don. He is research active in power system stability, control and compu-

tation. His research is sponsored by ABB, GE, National Grid, and

EPSRC UK. He leads an eight-university UK-India research consortium

on Smart Grid and Storage and a six-university UK-China research con-

sortium in Smart Grid and Control. His research group has received 2016

President Award for Outstanding Research. Power network operators

and transmission equipment manufacturers, United Nations have con-

sulted him for solving technical problems in power transmission and renewable energy. Prof. Pal

has graduated 20 PhDs and published about 70 IEEE Transactions papers and

co-authored two books. He is Series Editor of Elsevier series on Sustainable Energies

and Fellow of IEEE. He was Mercator Professor sponsored by German Research Foundation

(DFG) at University of Duisburg-Essen in 2011. He holds a Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua

University, China.

NINA F. THORNHILL (SM’93) received her Ph.D. degree from the De-

partment of EE Engineering at University College London. She holds

the ABB Chair of Process Automation in the Department of Chemical

Engineering at Imperial College London. Her research interests are data

analytics applied to oil and gas, chemicals, and electricity supply. The

achievements related to the award arose from many years of collabora-

tion with Professor Pal, especially in the FP7 Real-Smart project that

funded the work of the paper.

ARTURO R. MESSINA received the Ph. D. degree from Imperial College,

London, U. K., in 1991. From 1997 he is a Professor at the Center for

Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav), of the National Polytechnic

Institute of Mexico. His areas of interest include power system stability

analysis and control, and the development and application of advanced

measurement-based signal processing techniques to the study and charac-

terization of power system dynamic processes.

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award the author(s) of an outstanding technical paper with the IEEE PES Technical Committee

Prize Paper Award. Each committee is also encouraged to nominate a paper from their commit-

tee 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 nominations 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 sin-

gle author; $100 USD each for two (2) or more authors.

This award is funded by the IEEE PES Endowment Fund, managed by the IEEE Foundation.

"Resonance-Free Shunt Capacitors – Configurations, Design

Methods and Comparative Analysis"

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery,

Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 2287-2295, Dec 2015

Authors: Wilsun Xu, Tianyu Ding, Xin Li and Hao Liang

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WILSUN XU obtained Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of British Co-

lumbia, Canada. He worked in industry for 7 years before he became a

faculty member in the University of Alberta. He is currently a Senior In-

dustrial Research Chair Professor. Dr. Xu has been working in the field of

power quality and harmonics for years. The prize paper presents a solution

to a challenging power quality problem – how to make shunt capacitors

free of harmonic resonance.

TIANYU DING (S'12-M'17) obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and

Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB,

Canada, in 2017. During his Ph.D. study, he has worked on various pow-

er quality related research projects, which includes the resonance-free

shunt capacitor design.

Currently, he is with FortisAlberta Inc., Airdrie, Alberta, Canada, where

he works as an Engineer in Training in Distribution Planning Group.

XIN LI (S’15) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineer-

ing from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2010 and

2013, respectively, and is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical

and computer engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB,

Canada. His main research interest is power quality.

HAO LIANG is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alber-

ta, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electri-

cal and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2013.

His current research interests are in the areas of smart grid and cyber-

physical systems. He was a co-recipient of the Best Student Paper Award

from IEEE VTC Fall-2010 and a Best Conference Paper from IEEE PES

GM 2016.

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IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Award Outstanding Standard or Guide


award one working group with the IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recogni-

tion 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 Out-

standing 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 Meet-

ing. The officers are given a plaque and mounted certificates for the members.

IEEE C37.119, Guide for Breaker Failure Protection of

Power Circuit Breakers

Chair: Roger Lee Whittaker

Vice Chair: Adi Mulawarman

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IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Award Outstanding Standard or Guide

ROGER LEE WHITTAKER is a design engineer with 37 years of ex-

perience developing control and protection systems that have been

deployed by the Bonneville Power Administration on their Pacific

Northwest Transmission Grid. Roger’s expertise includes the design

of protection systems for transmission lines, station bus, transform-

ers, breaker failure, and station manual control. Roger is an active

member of the Power System Relay and Control Committee

(PSRCC) and is registered as a professional engineer by the state of

Montana.

ADI MULAWARMAN received his BSEE (1996) and MEE (2000) de-

grees in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota. He has

been with Xcel Energy since 1994. He is currently working as princi-

pal system protection engineer. He is actively involved in the IEEE

PES PSRCC activities. He is currently the Standards Coordinator

officer and chair of a WG revising Protection of Secondary Network

Systems C37.108. He is a registered Professional Engineer with the

state of Minnesota.

Chair: Roger Lee Whittaker

Vice Chair: Adi Mulawarman

Working Group Members: Jeff Barsch, Bob Beresh, Brian Boysen, Alla Deronja,

Michael Fleck, Rick Gamble, Charles Henville, Craig Hiemenz, Alex Lee, Jacob

Lien, Jeff Long, Don Lukach, Bruce Mackie, Heather Malson, Aaron Martin, Alex-

is Mezco, Dean Miller, Roy Moxley, Pratap Mysore, Claire Patti, Jeff Pope, Dan

Reckerd, Sam Sambasivan, Lubomir Sevov, Charles Sufana, Phil Tatro, Dennis

Tierney, Michael Thompson, Ian Tualla, Eric Udren, Johan Van Den Berg, Jun

Verzosa, Don Ware, Ray Young, Rich Young, Joe Uchiyama, John Wang, and Phil

Zinck.

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IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Award Outstanding Technical Report


award one working group with the IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recogni-

tion 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 Out-

standing 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 Meet-

ing. The officers are given a plaque and mounted certificates for the members.

PES-TR22, Contribution to Bulk System Control and

Stability by Distributed Energy Resources Connected at

Distribution Network

Chair: Nikos Hatziargyriou

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IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Award Outstanding Technical Report

NIKOS HATZIARGYRIOU is Chairman and CEO of the Hellenic Distri-bution Network Operator (HEDNO). Since 1984 he is a faculty mem-ber at the Power Division of the Electrical and Computer Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens. He is Fellow Member of IEEE, past Chair of the Power System Dynamic Perfor-mance Committee and was Chair of the TF on Contribution to Bulk System Control and Stability by Distributed Energy Resources Connect-ed at Distribution Network. He is author of the book “Microgrids: Ar-chitectures and Control” and of more than 200 journal publications and 500 conference proceedings papers.

Chair: Nikos Hatziargyriou

Working Group Members: Thierry Van Cutsem, Jovica Milanovic, Pouyan Pour-

beik, Costas Vournas, Olga Vlachokyriakou, Panos Kotsampopoulos, Mingguo

Hong, Rodrigo Ramos, Jens Boemer, Petros Aristidou, Vikas Singhvi, Jhonatan

dos Santos, Luan Colombari

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IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter Award Large Chapter Category

BOSTON CHAPTER

SCOTT SECREST, CHAIR

The Boston Chapter is recognized as the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Large Chapter Award for its outstanding performance for the accomplishments completed in 2017. The achievements are recognized under the leadership of Chapter Chair, Scott Secrest, and the Chapter Executive Committee (ExCom).

The Boston Chapter has had a successful 2017 with numerous activities conducted for the benefit of its members, with special attention being paid to student involvement, educational programs, and technical activities. The chapter also supported the PES Student Congress conference and had an increase in membership.

Some of the significant 2017 accomplishments include:

More than 9 technical meetings averaging over 30 attendees, covering a wide range of topics. Topics have included areas such as electrical equipment, electric vehicles, utility and energy of the future, and engineering careers.

Two technical meetings led by distinguished lecturers.

Two multi-part educational courses for the continuing education of its members: a course on Grid Modernization, presented in four 3-hour sessions, and a course on Emerging Technologies and Chal-lenges, presented in five 3-hour sessions.

Engagement with Young Professionals, Women in Power, and other local PES chapters.

WIP hosted 3 events to promote the engineering profession and to celebrate women engineers.

Significant involvement with students at the Boston-area universities and ongoing financial support to PES Scholarship Plus Initiative.

Program in place to award students with credits for technical meeting attendance that can be used to “pay” for chapter’s educational courses.

Sponsored the IEEE PES Student Congress and chapter was heavily involved in organizing, running, and presenting at the event.

Recognition of Outstanding Chapter Engineers in both categories (<15 and >15 years) and of Out-standing Chapter Volunteer at well-attended awards banquet.

A focus on membership growth with a historical pattern of increase and a focus on membership ad-vancement.

A relevant web site to keep members up to date. Chapter maintains heavy social media presence as well.

RUNNERS-UP IN THIS CATEGORY ARE

Bangalore (R10), Columbus (R2), Malaysia (R10), North Jersey (R1)

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IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter Award Small Chapter Category

KERALA CHAPTER

A.G. HAREENDRALAL, CHAIR

The Kerala Chapter is recognized as the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Small Chapter Award for its outstanding performance for the accomplishments completed in 2017. The achievements are recognized under the leadership of Chapter Chair, A.G. Hareendralal, and the Chapter Executive Committee (ExCom).

The Kerala PES Chapter has had a tremendous year, providing a variety of technical, educational, profes-sional, social and membership activities throughout 2017, totaling 40 activities. The chapter officer volun-teer team has provided leadership and wide-ranging services for the benefit of the local PES members, students and others in the power industry.

Some examples of 2017 milestone activities include:

10 technical activities on topics including energy conservation, smart grid, solar systems, electrical equipment, and energy efficient homes. Activities ranged in length from a couple of hours to two days.

Six full day or two-day educational workshops with topics including electrical system design, building systems design, and effective writing of technical papers.

More than five activities organized to educate the public on the benefits of IEEE and PES member-ship. Topics included career benefits, communication and leadership skill enhancement, mentoring, and volunteering.

Six activities organized for the specific benefit of students with an emphasis on contests and competi-tions to increase those students’ engagement.

Significant engagement in formation of new student branch chapters.

Five community development activities with emphasis on energy conservation organized through the work of chapter with Life Members, Women in Power, and Young Professionals.

Organization and sponsorship of four conferences, including a three-day energy congress and two student congresses.

Recognition of Outstanding Chapter Engineers in both categories (<15 and >15 years) and of Out-standing Chapter Volunteer.

Strong focus on membership growth with over 30% growth in 2017.

Up-to-date website and social media presence.

Excellent and detailed report covering all activities for the program year.

NO RUNNERS-UP FOR THE SMALL CHAPTER CATEGORY FOR THIS YEAR

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Class of 2018 IEEE Fellows

Haibo He

Richard Lukaszewski

Haithem Abu-rub

Anil K. Jampala

Gianfranco Chicco Ehab Fahmy El-Saadany

James Feltes Hashem Hashemian

Karen L. Butler-Purry

Sherman Chan

Leo F. Casey

Noriko Kawakami

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Ronghai Qu

Marcelo E. Valdes

Zhenqiang Ma Patrick Panciatici

Eugeniusz Rosolowski

Hideki Motoyama

Alex Schneider

Hongbin Sun Peng Wang

Philip B. Winston

Class of 2018 IEEE Fellows

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