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2022 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE Founders Medal
Sponsored by the IEEE Richard and
Mary Jo Stanley Memorial Fund of the
IEEE Foundation
IEEE Medal in Power Engineering
Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications,
Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics,
and Power & Energy Societies
John Brooks Slaughter
Thomas M. Jahns
For leadership and administration
signifi cantly advancing inclusion and
racial diversity in the engineering
profession across government,
academic, and nonprofi t organizations
With extensive and long-lasting contributions to engineering
as an executive, administrator, and researcher in industry, academia,
and the government, John Brooks Slaughter has leveraged
his experience to drive national efforts to increase participation
and inclusion of persons from demographic populations underrepresented
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) fields within academe and the technical workforce. As
director of the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory,
Slaughter was recruited by IEEE to chair its Minorities
Committee (1976-1980) while serving on the National Academy
of Engineering Committee on Minorities in Engineering (1976-
1979). During this time, he worked with engineering department
chairs from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
to increase student success rates, including personally mentoring
numerous Black engineering students. In 1980, he was appointed
to lead the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), becoming
its first Black director, leading it for 2 years and broadening participation
of women and Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color
(BIPoC) scholars within STEM. He established NSF's Engineering
Directorate, implementing foundational policies and programs
designed to expand STEM research/education efforts at HBCUs,
Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges, setting a strategic
direction for NSF that continues today. From 1982-88 as chancellor
of the University of Maryland, College Park, he led efforts
resulting in significant increases in BIPoC STEM student enrollment
and improved academic standards for student-athletes. From
2000-09 as president and chief executive officer of the National
Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)-the
largest provider of scholarships for BIPoC engineering students-
he significantly increased the number of student scholars and participating
institutions. Under his leadership, NACME expanded its
scholarship program to broader STEM disciplines, added a graduate
student initiative, and initiated a precollege program that introduces
K-12 students to engineering that continues today.
An IEEE Life Fellow, IEEE-HKN Member, and member of the
U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Slaughter is a University
Professor and Dean's Professor of Education and Engineering with
the Rossier School of Education and Viterbi School of Engineering
at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Scope: For outstanding contributions in the leadership, planning,
and administration of affairs of great value to the electrical and
electronics engineering profession.
For contributions to the development
of high-effi ciency permanent magnet
machines and drives
Thomas M. Jahns is recognized internationally as a preeminent
researcher and innovator in high-performance permanent magnet
(PM) machines and their adjustable-speed drives that reduce
the world's carbon footprint by achieving unparalleled levels of
energy efficiency and power density. He is particularly known
for his pioneering work to develop interior permanent magnet
(IPM) machines and drives that have been adopted in practically
all passenger electric vehicles manufactured since they entered
high-volume production in 1997. The technical papers written by
Jahns during the first half of his professional career at GE Corporate
R&D provided the technology blueprint for the highly efficient
IPM traction drives that propel these vehicles. More broadly,
the PM machine drives that he pioneered at GE and later as a
faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison laid the
groundwork for their broad adoption in a wide range of products
including elevators, robots, air conditioners, and white goods
that benefit from their unmatched efficiency and compact size.
Jahns has continued to make cutting-edge research contributions
focused on developing high-performance PM machine drives
for some of the world's most demanding motor applications including
propulsor drives for future electrically propelled aircraft.
To minimize the drive's mass and volume, he has combined the
electric machine and its electronic adjustable-speed drive inside
the same housing to form an integrated motor drive (IMD), an
advanced drive topology for which Jahns has earned an international
reputation. He is also a renowned expert in the analysis
and design of fault-tolerant electric machines and drives that are
critical to achieving highly challenging reliability requirements.
Throughout his professional career, Jahns has worked tirelessly to
promote and share PM machine drive technology with students
and engineers around the world via multiple book chapters and
countless highly regarded lectures in classrooms and at conferences,
invited seminars, and short courses.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy
of Engineering, Jahns is the Grainger Emeritus Professor of
Power Electronics and Electrical Machines in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Scope: For outstanding contributions to the technology associated
with the generation, transmission, distribution, application, and
utilization of electric power for the betterment of society.
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