Harry A. Owen Distinguished Service Award

The Distinguished Service Award was established in 1996 to honor long and distinguished service to the welfare of the Power Electronics Society at an exceptional level of dedication and achievement.  The prize consists of an engraved plaque and a chas award of $3,500.  All members of the Power Electronics Society are eligible.  Achievements by which an individual is judged to have made outstanding contributions to the Power Electonics Society encompass a broad range of activities over a substantial time period including, but not limited to, creative and invigorating leadership of the Society; exceptional administrative and managerial accomplishments on behalf of the Society; identification of new technologies within the scope of the Society, and nurturing activities to support these emerging technologies; initiation of innovative programs to encourage wider participation in the full spectrum of Society activities, and the general communication and advocacy of power electronics technology to the technical community as a whole.

In 2011 the Distinguised Service Award was renamed the Harry A. Owen Distinguished Service Award.

If you would like to nominate a PELS member for the Distinguished Service Award, fill out the nomination form and submit it no later than March 31 to  pels-awards-nominations@ieee.org, PELS Awards Committee.

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