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IEEE Joseph John Suozzi INTELEC® Fellowship Award in Power Electronics

Graduate Student $15,000 Grant

The IEEE Joseph Joseph John Suozzi INTELEC Fellowship Award in Power Electronics is named in honor of the late Dr. Joseph John Suozzi, a founder and long-time leader of INTELEC.  This grant of $15,000 is made to an electrical engineering graduate student studying in an area of power electronics that powers information and communication technology systems.  Such systems include Wireline and Wireless Systems, Data/Internet Systems, Video Systems, Satellite communications, Community Antennae Television (CATV), Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Systems, Unified Communications, Wireless Internet Networks (Wi-Fi), Data Centers, Energy Storage, Smart Grid, etc.  This scope includes the research, sustainability, fundamental development, design, application and management of communications energy and related systems.

This fellowship is international and is therefore open to electrical engineering graduate students in all countries. The applicant must be a graduate student member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and must furnish his/her IEEE membership number with the application. The award is a one-time grant to an individual and is not renewable.

Interested electrical engineering graduate students shall submit:

  • An essay not exceeding one page in length that explains how his/her proposed project can be applied to powering of communications systems.
  • A transcript of his/her grades.
  • Evidence of student enrollment status at the time of application and during the period the proposed project would be undertaken
  • A letter of support from his/her Faculty Advisor.
  • Your IEEE Membership Number

If you would like to apply as a graduate or Ph.D. student or doctoral candidate for this award, please go to our IEEE Society Awards Application System.  To identify, you will be asked at the beginning of this process to log in your existing IEEE account or to register for a new one. Subsequently, you should choose IEEE Joseph John Suozzi INTELEC Fellowship Award in Power Electronics, enter the required data and upload the aforementioned documents.

Applications received up to March 31st will be considered in the current year. The award is administrated by PELS TC 7 – Communication Energy Systems (INTELEC). If you have any questions please send them to PELS Awards Committee via pels-awards-nominations@ieee.org.

 

Past Recipients
2018 No Award
2017 Enver Candan, University of Illinois, USA
2016 Liyao Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
2015 No Award
2014 Eunice Ribeiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 Ankan De, North Carolina State University, USA
2012 Hamid Behjati, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
2011 Alessandro Costabeber, University of Padova, Italy
2010 No Award
2009 Omer C. Onar, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2008 Jian Lu, University of Central Florida, USA
2007 Tirthajyoti Sarkar, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2006 Bradley Oraw, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
2005 Alexis Kwasinski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
2004 No Award
2003 Mehdi Ferdowsi, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2002 Peng Li, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2001 Robert Balog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

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