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IEEE PowEr & EnErgy SocIEty 2012 gEnEral MEEtIng awardS cErEMony Tuesday, 24 July 2012 Manchester Hyatt Regency San Diego, California USA The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Awards and Recognition Mariesa Crow, Chair COMMITTEE CHAIRS Christopher root B. don russell • IEEE Power & Energy Society • IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award Leadership in Power Award dennis woodford stan horowitz • IEEE PES Uno Lamm HVDC Award • IEEE Power & Energy Society Lifetime Achievement Award ward t. Jewell • IEEE PES Ramakumar Family hamid elahi Renewable Energy Excellence Award • IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award Gören andersson • IEEE PES Outstanding Power marCio szeChtman Engineering Educator Award • IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award • IEEE PES Nari Hingorani A. P. sakis meliopoulos Custom Power Award • iEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award wenyuan li • IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power roBert pelleGrino System Reliability Award • IEEE PES Robert P. Noberini Distinguished Contributions to Power dan ward Engineering Professionalism Award • IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering riChard Brown • IEEE PES Technical Paper Awards G. larry Clark • IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky edward C. Carlsen Distribution Automation Award • IEEE PES Chapter Awards Steven d. pendarek roBert d. saint • IEEE PES Cyril Veinott • IEEE PES/IAS A.P. Seethapathy Rural Electromechanical Energy Electrification Excellence Award Conversion Award yonGhua sonG howard a. smolleCk • IEEE PES CSEE Yu-Hsiu Ku Electrical • IEEE PES Student Prize Paper Engineering Award Award in Honor of T. Burke Hayes PROGRAM Welcome: Nicholas Abi-Samra • IEEE PES Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award General Chair, PES 2012 General Meeting Ned Mohan Presiding: Noel N. Schulz • IIEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award President, IEEE Power & Energy Society Mohammed Shahidehpour Introductions: Mariesa Crow Chair, PES Awards & Recognition Committee • IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia IEEE AWARD NEW FELLOW ACKNOWLEDGMENT Presented by Noel N. Schulz, President, IEEE PES • IEEE Nikola Tesla Award WORKING GROUP RECOGNITION AWARDS Manoj R. Shah IEEE POWER & ENERGY SOCIETY AWARDS Outstanding Standard or Guide • “IEEE Std C37.06, Nov.6, 2009, Standard AC High-Voltage Circuit Breakers • IEEE Power & Energy Society Leadership in Power Award Rated on a Symmetrical Current Basis – Preferred Ratings and Related Armando J. Olivera Required Capabilities for Voltages above 1000 Volts “ • IEEE PES Lifetime Achievement Award George Montillet, Chair melvin I. Olken • IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award Prize Paper Awards Leonard (Len) Garver • “On Some aspects of Power System Stabilizer Blocking Logic” • IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award Matthias Baechle, David Stutz, Valerijs Knazkins Stig Nilsson • IEEE PES Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award • “A Fault-Tolerant Technique for Delta-Connected Hirofumi Akagi Vector-Control AC Motor-Drives” Ahmed Sayed-Ahmed, Behrooz Mirafzal, Nabeel A. O. Demerdash • IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award Armando Leite da Silva Outstanding Chapter Awards • IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering Large Chapters Richard A. Bush • New York Chapter (Co-Winner) • Phoenix Chapter (Co-Winner) • IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky DIstribution Automation Award William Montgomery, Chair Naim Logic, Chair Anil Pahwa • IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award SMALL CHAPTER John Hsu • Western Saudi Arabia Chapter • IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award Bander Allaf, Chair Saifur Rahman • IEEE PES Uno Lamm High Voltage Direct Current Award Bjarne Andersen Closing: Noel N. Schulz The IEEE Nikola Tesla Award The IEEE Nikola Tesla Award Sponsored by The Grainger Foundation and the IEEE Power & Energy Society Manoj r. Shah 2012 Recipient The IEEE Nikola Tesla Award was established in 1975 by the IEEE Board of Directors, the award is named in honor of Nikola Tesla, an electrical engineer, a For advancements in electromagnetic design and distinguished Yugoslav-American inventor, and a analysis of electrical machines pioneer in many fields, who is most renowned for the development of the coil that bears his name and the a-c induction motor. The award is presented Manoj R. Shah’s innovative methods for outstanding contributions to the generation and for analyzing and designing electric utilization of electric power. machines have provided fault-tolerant Sponsored by the Grainger Foundation and the IEEE equipment that can operate at higher Power & Energy Society, the award consists of a plaque and honorarium. efficiency more reliably. In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: impact on technology, inventive value, breadth of use, leadership, and quality of the Dr. Shah developed an electromagnetic nomination. “Generation” areas may include: automation, instrumentation, analysis method for General Electric control, generation planning, alternative forms (e.g. wind, solar, fuel cells generators using electric vector and and space power), conservation, safety, and reliability. “Utilization” areas magnetic scalar potentials. His method may include: conservation, bio-medical, (e.g. MRI, focused ultra sound, etc), provided a greater level of accuracy in life quality improvement for the handicapped, manufacturing systems, and calculating the intensity of magnetic robotronics. fields to address the geometric Past recipients: complications of winding and structural configurations and nonlinear aspects of magnetic materials in the 2011 - Nady Boules 1993 - Madabushi V.K. Chari end region of generators. His method has been incorporated in 2010 - Paul C. Krause 1992 - Thomas Herbert Barton many General Electric air- and hydrogen-cooled generators produced 2009 - Donald W. Novotny 1991 - Michel E. Poloujadoff over the last 15 years. 2008 - Timothy J.E. Miller 1990 - Gordon R. Slemon 2007 - Thomas W. Nehl 1989 - Dietrich R. Lambrecht Dr. Shah also developed an advanced wound-field motor for the U.S. 2006 - Konrad Reichert 1988 - Edward I. King Navy, providing greater power output for ship propulsion in a smaller 2005 - Thomas M. Jahns 1987 - J. Coleman White package. His methods for monitoring the health of stator cores 2004 - Sheppard Joel Salon 1986 - Eric R. Laithwaite can help prevent catastrophic equipment failures that could lead 2003 - Austin H. Bonnett 1985 - Eugene C. Whitney to prolonged power outages. He also contributed to strengthening 2002 - James L. Kirtley, Jr. 1984 - Herbert H. Woodson 2001 - Stephen Williamson 1983 - No Award the fault-tolerant characteristics of permanent magnet machines, 2000 - Syed Abu Nasar 1982 - Sakae Yamamura increasing their industry acceptance. 1999 - Nabeel Aly Omar Demerdash 1981 - Dean B. Harrington An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Shah is currently a senior engineer with General 1998 - Paul Dandeno 1980 - Philip H. Tricky Electric Co.’s Global Research Center, Niskayuna, N.Y. 1997 - Prabhashankar Kundur 1979 - John W. Batchelor 1996 - John A. Tegopoulos 1978 - Charles H. Holley 1995 - Thomas A. Lipo 1977 - Cyril G. Veinott 1994 - Carl Flick 1976 - Leon T. Rosenberg IEEE PES Leadership in Power Award IEEE PES Leadership in Power Award arMando j. olIvEra The IEEE PES Leadership in Power Award was established in 2007 2012 Recipient to recognize industry leaders for exceptional contributions to the For delivering outstanding customer value, promotion of the electric power engineering profession. The award is advancing the power engineering profession through particularly intended to highlight actions which have encouraged the encouragement of workforce diversity and young people, development and growth of electric power engineering practitioners and improving the quality of life for this and future generations and the recognition of the contributions electric power engineers have made to society. In this era, electric utility leaders who recognize Armando Olivera is the retired president the crucial importance of power engineering in the safe, reliable and and chief executive officer of Florida Power economical generation, transmission and distribution of electricity are & Light Company (FPL), a subsidiary of rare and this award is to recognize them for their insight and wisdom. NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE) and one of the largest investor-owned electric utilities in To be eligible, recipients must be active in the electric power industry the nation. He was appointed president in but do not need to be IEEE members. Selection is based on evalu- 2003, CEO in 2008, and retired on May 2, ation of accomplishments as revealed by documented testimonials 2012 after observing his 40th anniversary from industry members. Of particular importance is evidence of the with the company. candidate’s promotion of the importance of the power engineering profession and the people practicing it. Work in encouraging industry Under Mr. Olivera’s leadership since 2003, involvement with university power engineering programs, encourag- FPL grew its assets 79 percent to $31.8 ing young engineers through mentoring and career development billion, its revenues by 28 percent to $10.6 programs, recognition programs for power engineers, encouragement billion, and its net income by 50 percent to of professional activities by practitioners, etc. are also considered. $1.1 billion. FPL’s typical customer bill is the lowest of the state’s 55 utilities and 25 percent below the national average.