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2022 IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS
IEEE Nikola Tesla Award
Sponsored by Wolong Electric, the IEEE Industry Applications
Society, and the IEEE Power & Energy Society
Peter W. Sauer
For contributions to dynamic modeling
and simulation of synchronous generators
and for leadership in power
engineering education
The modeling, simulation, and control methods developed by Peter
W. Sauer for power system generators paved the way for today's
smart-grid advancements, essential to keeping the U.S. energy system
reliable and secure. His modeling of synchronous machines and largescale
electric grids using the integral manifolds concept for systematic
reduced-order modeling improved accuracy and efficiency. He developed
fast methods to enforce transient stability constraints on the
calculation of interchange capability, improving the understanding of
maximum power transfer and voltage collapse issues. He revised electrical
machinery courses and laboratories to emphasize energy conversion
fundamentals and industrial applications and worked with the
Grainger Foundation to fund and develop new electric machinery
facilities and establish endowments for student research in machines.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Sauer is the Grainger Chair Emeritus
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois,
Urbana, IL, USA.
IEEE Transportation Technologies Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics,
Intelligent Transportation Systems, Microwave Theory and Techniques,
Power Electronics, Power & Energy, and Vehicular Technology Societies
Ouyang Minggao
For contributions to fuel-cell powertrain
and battery thermal management
With systematic innovations in electrified powertrain technologies
for electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid EVs, and fuel-cell vehicles, Ouyang
Minggao made these evolving modes of transportation safer and more
durable. Thermal runaway of batteries can cause serious safety accidents
in EVs. He revealed the thermal runway initiation and propagation
mechanism and developed thermal runway mitigation techniques
for battery systems, making EVs safer and spurring the development of
international safety standards. To cope with the performance degradation
of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, he developed a fuel cell-battery
hybrid powertrain with model-based energy management and degradation
diagnosis system for a city bus that ran successfully during the
2008 Beijing Olympic Games. His innovations have been adopted by
battery and automobile manufacturers worldwide.
An IEEE member, Minggao is a professor and director of the
China-US Clean Vehicle Joint Research Center at Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China.
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award
Sponsored by the late Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu, the IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society, and the IEEE Microwave Theory and
Techniques Society
Pieter Abbeel
For contributions to deep learning for
robotics
Striving to build ever-more intelligent systems, Pieter Abbeel is
paving the way to the next generation of robots that can learn and
improve to function outside of traditional manufacturing settings.
Abbeel helped start the field of robot learning by cleverly combining
learning and optimal control for hard tasks including helicopter
flight, manipulating cloth, and surgical knot-tying. He then
applied deep learning to robotics by incorporating aspects of reinforcement
learning, imitation learning, and unsupervised learning
to enable AI-powered robots that have the potential to sense and
react to their environment and meaningfully reason through the
consequences of their actions in real time. These robots are now
playing a role in warehouse order fulfillment, logistics, and supplychain
applications critical to e-commerce.
An IEEE Fellow, Abbeel is a professor and director of the
Berkeley Robot Learning Lab at the University of California
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Education Society
Christopher Rose
For innovations in team-oriented signature
design and inspiring women and
underrepresented minority students to
pursue engineering
With pioneering team-based capstone design courses, Christopher
Rose encourages his communications theory students to think
creatively in realizing important technologies benefi tting society.
An early champion of the capstone concept while at Rutgers University,
he challenged his students by asking how they would like
to see wireless technology change the world, giving them tools
and support to do so. Successful results from his students' capstone
projects included wireless parking meters and parking decks, an
app that monitors vital statistics of fi refi ghters, and an energysaving
mesh network for reactive lighting. The team-based, bigpicture
interdisciplinary research opportunities of these courses
attract women and underrepresented minorities to the fi eld, and
he devoted signifi cant time and eff ort to mentoring young, underrepresented
faculty and students at universities across the country.
An IEEE Fellow, Rose is professor of engineering and assoc. provost
for STEM Initiatives at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
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