IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award
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The IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE that was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2005. This award is presented annually for outstanding contribution(s) to the advancement of power electronics
. The award is named in honor of William E. Newell
.
This award may be presented to an individual only.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Power electronics
Power electronics is the application of solid-state electronics for the control and conversion of electric power.-Introduction:Power electronic converters can be found wherever there is a need to modify a form of electrical energy...
. The award is named in honor of William E. Newell
William E. Newell
Dr. William E. Newell was an author and "noted authority on power electronics". He worked at the Westinghouse Research and Development Center in Pittsburgh.-Influence:...
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This award may be presented to an individual only.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Recipients
- 2000: Luigi F. Malesani
- 2001: Hirofumi Akagi
- 2002: Emanuel E. Landsman
- 2003: Philip T. Krein
- 2004: M. Azizur Rahman
- 2005: Bimal K. Bose
- 2006: Deepakraj M. Divan
- 2007: Dushan Boroyevich
- 2008: Istvan Nagy
- 2009: Tadashi Fukao
- 2010: Akio Nakagawa
- 2011: Praveen Jain
- 2012: Leo Lorenz