About the Award
The IEEE PELS Best Student Branch Chapter Award recognizes excellent service by PELS Student Branch Chapters (SBC) and Joint SBCs to its members and the power electronics community. As of 2024, this award now recognizes one SBC from each category: Small (6 to 10 members), Medium (11 to 30 members) and Large (30+ members).
Prize:
- Certificate (in the SBC’s name)
- Honorarium to support SBC activities (USD 1,000 for large, USD 750 for medium, and USD 500 for small)
- Reimbursement for necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony. The amount is limited to whatever is lower:
- USD 1,000 or, if a flight with a flying time over six hours is included, USD 2,000
- The award honorarium
How to Submit a Nominee
Current SBC Chairs should apply for their SBC to be considered. They will be asked to log into their existing IEEE account (or register for a new one) to identify as a nominator.
The portal to submit an application is now closed.
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Details About the
Award
Large: To be announced
Medium: To be announced
Small: To be announced
All active PELS SBCs and Joint SBCs are eligible.
Criteria: The criteria are based on the substantial accomplishments of the SBC in fields such as:
- Chapter meetings with educational, networking, or technical content, such as Distinguished Lectures
- Local service to PELS members
- Local support of international PELS conferences
- Networking with local societies with a similar scope
- Offering networking opportunities between local industry and academia and/or students and engineers
- Power electronics-related contributions to IEEE activities, such as establishing IEEE milestones
- Visibility (e.g., number of members and participants in chapter meetings, gaining new members or supporting elevation of member’s IEEE membership grade, public relations)
2024
Large: Zhejiang University
Medium: University of Connecticut (PELS/PES)
Small: G Pulla Reddy Engineering College
2023
Sri Sai Ram Engineering College
2022
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2021
Tsinghua University
2020
Indian Institute of Technology-Mandi (PELS/IES)
2019
Federal University of Campina Grande (PELS/IAS)
