IEEE PELS Harry A. Owen, Jr. Distinguished Service Award

The IEEE PELS Harry A. Owen, Jr. Distinguished Service Award was established in 1996 to honor long and distinguished service to the welfare of the Power Electronics Society at an exceptional level of dedication and achievement.  The prize consists of an engraved plaque and a cash award of $3,500 USD.  All members of the Power Electronics Society are eligible.  Achievements by which an individual is judged to have made outstanding contributions to the Power Electronics Society encompass a broad range of activities over a substantial time period including, but not limited to, creative and invigorating leadership of the Society; exceptional administrative and managerial accomplishments on behalf of the Society; identification of new technologies within the scope of the Society, and nurturing activities to support these emerging technologies; initiation of innovative programs to encourage wider participation in the full spectrum of Society activities, and the general communication and advocacy of power electronics technology to the technical community as a whole.

In 2011 the Distinguished Service Award was renamed the Harry A. Owen Distinguished Service Award.

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

 

 Past Recipients

2020	Dean Patterson
2019	Brad Lehman
2018	William Gerard Hurley
2017	Dong Tan
2016	Dushan Boroyevich
2015	Jerry L. Hudgins
2014	Rik De Doncker
2013	Ralph Kennel
2012	Thomas Habetler
2011	No award
2010	John M. Miller
2009	Frede Blaaberg
2008	Philip T. Krein
2007	Thomas M. Jahns
2006	Jacobus Daniel van Wyk
2005	Christopher O. Riddleberger
2004	Arthur W. Kelley
2003	Koosuke Harada
2002	Robert V. White
2001	William M. Portnoy
2000	Richard G. Hoft
1999	Thomas G. Wilson, Sr.
1998	John G. Kassakian
1997	Harry A. Owen, Jr.