R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award

About the Award

The IEEE PELS R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award honors an individual who has accomplished outstanding contributions in the technical field of power electronics within one or more subfields, such as modeling and control, design-oriented analysis, development, simulation, and application of electronic devices, passive components, analog sensing, and power circuits for inverters, converters, and motor drives in all power levels.

Prize:

  • Bronze medal
  • Honorarium (USD 5,000)
  • Plaque
  • Reimbursement towards the recipient’s necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony (up to USD 1,000)
r. david middlebrook
R. David Middlebrook
(1929 - 2010)

How to Submit a Nominee

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Details About the
Award

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2025:

To be announced

2024

Keyue Smedley

2023

Marco Liserre

2022

Dragan Maksimovic

2021

Shu-Hung (Henry) Chung

2020

Alex Qin Huang

2019

Issa Batarseh

2018

Grahame Holmes

2017

Jian Sun

2016

Mark Dehong Xu

2015

David J. Perreault

2014

Johann Kolar

2013

William Gerard Hurley

2012

Prasad Enjeti