PELS Best Chapter Award
The Power Electronics Society Best Chapter Award was established in 2000 to recognize excellent service by a PELS Chapter – also joint with other societies – to its members and to the power electronics community. Prize items include $1,500 USD to support activities of the chapter and a certificate that contains the names of the Chapter. In addition, up to $1,000 USD will be reimbursed towards necessary conference registration, travel and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony. The award is usually presented at ECCE America every year during the awards ceremony.
Criteria are substantial chapter accomplishments in fields such as local service to PELS members; chapter meetings with technical, educational, or networking contents, including meetings with invited distinguished lecturers from PELS; offering networking opportunities between local industry and academia, between students, young and senior engineers; power electronics related contribution to IEEE activities, such as establishment and promotion of IEEE milestones; essential local support of international IEEE PELS power electronics conferences; visibility e. g. related to high numbers of members and participants in chapter meetings, an increase of new PELS members, public relations including website and publications; networking with local societies with a similar scope.
Applications for the IEEE Power Electronics Society Best Chapter Award should be effectuated through the current Chapter Chair as follows: Please go to our IEEE Society Awards Application System when the Nomination process opens on 30 December 2021. To identify, you will be asked at the beginning of this process to log in to your existing IEEE account or to register for a new one.
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-nomination@ieee.org.
Past Recipients
| 2021 | IEEE PELS Bangalore Section Chapter, PEL35 |
| 2020 | Wuhan Chapter |
| 2018 | Taipei Chapter |
| 2017 | PELS San Francisco Bay Area Council (SFBAC) - Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Section Chapter |
| 2016 | Serbia and Montenegro Joint Chapter PELS/IES/IAS |
| 2015 | Pittsburgh Section, USA |
| 2014 | Fukuoka Section, Japan |
| 2013 | PELS-IES Delhi Chapter |
| 2012 | Argentina Section Joint ChapterIES/CS/RAS/IAS/PELS/VTS |
| 2011 | The Joint Delhi Section Chapter, PEL35/IE13 |
| 2010 | PELS/PES Joint Student Chapter - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2009 | The Denmark Chapter |
| 2008 | Germany Joint IAS/PELS/IES Chapter |
| 2005 | United Kingdom - Republic of Ireland PELS Chapter |
| 2004 | Brazil North-East, Bahia Section, Joint PELS/IAS/PES Chapter |
| 2003 | Hong Kong Joint PELS/PES/IES/IAS Chapter |
| 2002 | German Joint IAS/IES/PELS Chapter |
| 2001 | Russian Joint PELS/IES/PES Chapter |
| 2000 | Morelos Section PELS Chapter |
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