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

The IEEE PELS Society Awards Application System submission site is now closed.  If you have questions. please send them to PELS Awards Committee via pels-awards-nomination@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