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Alfredo Vaccaro
avenues for recognition
awards affirm the contributions of colleagues
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THE PRESTIGIOUS ACHIEVEMENT
of an IEEE Power & Energy Society
(PES) Society-level award is assuming
a major role in both industrial and
academic communities worldwide. It
recognizes technical or scientific leadership
in strategic fields of interest of
PES. To ensure the award's status as
a valuable and reliable index for job
recruitment or career advancements,
the rating process targets consistency
and equity.
The PES awards committee is devoted
to guaranteeing consistent, rigorous,
and equitable selecting processes
that support uniform evaluations across
all Society and Chapter awards. The
committee defines strict, ethical rules
to avoid conflict of interest, which otherwise
could affect the impartiality of
the evaluation process.
PES Society-level awards cover a
wide range of domains with different
purposes and eligibility criteria. Some
of them are jointly managed with other
societies. The joint awards are the YuHsiu
Ku Electrical Engineering Award,
established with the Chinese Society
for Electrical Engineering to recognize
electrical engineering professionals
that impacted the Chinese Society, and
the A.P. Seethapathy Rural Electrification
Excellence Award administered
in conjunction with the IEEE Industry
Applications Society to recognize
power engineers who have implementDigital
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ed better and cheaper electrification
technologies for the rural sector.
Awards that focus on power distribution
systems include the IEEE PES
Award for Excellence in Power Distribution
Engineering for engineering
contributions enhancing the quality
and economy of electric distribution
systems; the IEEE PES Douglas M.
Staszesky Distribution Automation
Award for innovative industry contributions
in power distribution systems
automation; and the IEEE Power & Energy
Society Ramakumar Family Renewable
Energy Excellence Award for
outstanding contributions the development,
use, and integration of renewable
energy resources.
Three Society awards focus on
transmission systems: the IEEE PES
Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering
Award for power system engineering
contributions in high-voltage
bulk power systems; the IEEE PES
Uno Lamm High Voltage Direct Current
Award for contributions to highvoltage
dc technology; and the IEEE
PES Nari Hingorani FACTS and Custom
Power Awards for contributions to
flexible alternating current
transmission
systems, custom power technologies,
and their applications.
Innovative technologies and methodologies
that can be deployed to both
transmission and distribution systems,
such as electromechanical energy conversion
technologies, power system reliability
analysis tools, and power system
analysis and control techniques,
are recognized by the IEEE PES Cyril
Veinott Electromechanical Energy
Conversion Award, the IEEE PES Roy
Billinton Power System Reliability
Award, and the IEEE PES Prabha S.
Kundur Power System Dynamics and
Control Award, respectively.
PES Society-level awards not only
recognize pioneering scientific and
technical contributions but also emphasize
the important role played
by educational leadership on young
power engineers. The IEEE PES
Outstanding Power Engineering Educator
Award recognizes outstanding
contributions and leadership in power
engineering education. The IEEE
Power & Energy Society Outstanding
Student Scholarship recognizes PES
student members who have chosen an
academic path leading to an electric
power and energy engineering career.
The IEEE PES Outstanding Young
Engineer Award is dedicated to engineers
ages 35 years or younger for
outstanding contributions in the leadership
of technical society activities,
leadership in community and humanitarian
activities, and evidence of technical
competence through significant
engineering achievements.
Several PES Society-level awards
cover strategic contributions that electric
power engineers make to society.
The IEEE Power & Energy Society
Leadership in Power Award recognizes
industry leaders for promoting
the electric power engineering profession.
The IEEE PES Robert Noberini
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