William E. Newell Award

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

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