Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award

The Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of power electronics by an engineer less than 35 years of age.  Since 1999, it is dedicated to the memory of Richard M. Bass of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, USA.

The prize consists of a certificate, a cash award of $1,500 USD, and reimbursement for transportation expenses up to $500 USD to attend the annual PELS Awards Ceremony.

All IEEE members of any grade, active in the field of power electronics and less than 35 years of age on January 1 of the year of the award, are eligible.  Candidates are judged for outstanding contributions encompassing a broad range of technical activities including research, innovative product design and application, teaching, and project leadership.  The technical disciplines in the field of power electronics include the analysis, design, development, simulation, and practical application of electronic devices, magnetics, controls, and power circuits for inverters, converters, and motor drives ranging in power level from fractions of a watt to megawatts.

The IEEE PELS Society Awards Application System submission site will open on 1 January 2021. If you have any questions please send them to PELS Awards Committee via pels-awards-nomination@ieee.org.

 Past Recipients

2020	Pradeep Shenoy	For contributions to high density and high efficiency DC-DC conversion systems
2019	Katherine Kim	For contributions to differential power processing converter techniques for voltaic applications
2018	Xiongfei Wang	For research contributions aiming at stability of power systems with power electronic supply
2017	Ali Davoudi	For contributions in modeling and simulation of power electronics and microgrids
2016	Huai Wang	For his contribution to the reliability of power electronic conversion systems
2015	Zixin Li	For contributions to multilevel and voltage-source HVDC converters
2014	Robert Pilawa-Podgurski	For innovations in the design and application of miniaturized high-performance dc-dc converters
2013	Yunwei (Ryan) Li	For contributions to control of power electronics in renewable energy systems, micro-grids and electric drives
2012	Samir Kouro
2011	Jin Wang
2010	Maryam Saeedifard
2009	Rangarajan Tallam
2008	Regan Zane
2007	Christian Klumpner
2006	Patrick Chapman
2005	Ali Emadi
2004	Philip Carne Kajaer
2003	Babak Fahimi
2002	Pallab Midya
2001	David J. Perreault
2000	José A. Cobos
1999	Steven B. Leeb
1998	Frede Blaabjerg
1997	Vlako Vlatkovic