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Three IEEE Fellows to be Honored at IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting

13 July –  Three IEEE Fellows will be honored for their technical, educational and service contributions to the field of power engineering  at the 2010 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting which will be held 25-29 July in Minneapolis, Minn. The meeting is designed to provide an international forum for attendees to promote, share and discuss developments in today's power and energy industry.

IEEE Life Fellow Gerald T. Heydt, an engineer who pioneered power quality assessment techniques for more reliable and efficient electric power transmission and delivery to ensure usable electricity for customers, is being honored by IEEE with the 2010 IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for contributions to electric power quality and transmission and distribution engineering.

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IEEE Life Fellow Paul C. Krause, a researcher and educator who has greatly influenced the study of electric machines and drives, will receive the 2010 IEEE Nikola Tesla Award for outstanding contributions to the analysis of electric machinery using reference frame theory. 

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IEEE Fellow Ned Mohan, an educator who has become an international leader in reforming the way electric energy systems courses are taught by incorporating topics outside the usual boundaries of the field, will be presented with the 2010 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. He is being recognized for pioneering and disseminating, worldwide, a novel integrated electric energy systems curriculum for undergraduates, supported by textbooks and laboratories, and for outstanding classroom teaching.

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