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 chas award of $3,500.  All members of the Power Electronics Society are eligible.  Achievements by which an individual is judged to have made outstanding contributions to the Power Electonics 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 Distinguised Service Award was renamed the Harry A. Owen Distinguished Service Award.

IIf you would like to nominate a PELS member for the IEEE PELS Harry A. Owen, Jr. Distinguished Service Award, please go to our  IEEE Society Awards Application System.  To identify as nominator, you will be asked in the beginning of this process to log in your existing IEEE account or to register for a new one. Subsequently you should choose IEEE PELS Harry A. Owen, Jr. Distinguished Service Award and enter the required data.

Nominations received up to March 31st will be considered in the current year.
If you have any questions please send them to PELS Awards Committee via pels-awards-nominations@ieee.org

 

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