William E. Newell Award

The William E. Newell Power Electronics Award has been presented annually since 1977 for outstanding achievement in power electronics.  Beginning in 2005, the Award was elevated to an IEEE Technical Field Award, sponsored by the Power Electronics Society.  It is dedicated to the memory of Dr. William E. Newell of the Westinghouse Research and Development Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  The awardee has been judged to be outstanding in the multidisciplinary field of power electronics, which crosses the technical boundaries of a number of Societies of the IEEE.  The recipient receives a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium.

Achievements by which an individual is judged to have made outstanding contributions encompass a broad range of activities and include teaching, innovative research, consulting endeavors, professional seminars, major project or program management, and the general communication and advocacy of power electronics technology to the technical community as a whole.  The technical disciplines that encompass the field of power electronics include the analysis, design, development, simulation and application of electronic devices, magnetics, controls and power circuits for inverters, converters and motor drives ranging in power level from fractions of a watt to megawatts.  Submit a nomination for the next IEEE Newell Award.

 

Past Recipients:

2011 - Praveen Jain	2001 - Hirofumi Akagi	1991 - B. Jayant Baliga	1981 - Thomas G. Wilson
2010 - Akio Nakagawa	2000 - Luigi F. Malesani	1990 - Thomas A. Lipo	1980 - Alexander Kusko
2009 - Tadashi Fukao	1999 - Thomas Jahns	1989 - Fred C. Lee	1979 - Shashi Dewan
2008 - Istvan Nagy	1998 - Joachim Holtz	1988 - Koosuke Harada	1978 - William McMurray
2007 - Dushan Boroyevich	1997 - Pierre Thollot	1987 - John G. Kassakian	1977 - Richard G. Hoft
2006 - Deepakraj M. Divan	1996 - Akira Nabae	1986 - Philip L. Hower
2005 - Bimal K. Bose	1995 - J. Daan van Wyk	1985 - Klemens Heumann
2004 - M. Azizur Rahman	1994 - Laszlo Gyugyi	1984 - Loren F. Stringer
2003 - Philip T. Krein	1993 - Robert L. Steigerwald	1983 - Francise C. Schwarz
2002 - Emanuel E. Landsman	1992 - Werner Leonhard	1982 - R. David Middlebrook

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