AWARDS

PES Accomplishments

PES fellows and IEEE award winners
Richard J. Kaska

 
The IEEE Fellow Award is a special recognition for members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total highergrade membership.

The Class of 2007

As chair of the Power Engineering Society (PES) Fellow Committee, I congratulate the following outstanding PES members for their accomplishments.

Ross Baldick

for contributions to analysis of power system economics

Richard Brown

for contributions to distribution system reliability and risk assessment

Claudio Canizares

for contributions to voltage stability of power systems

William Chisholm

for contributions to extra high voltage transmission line performance assessment

Mo-Yuen Chow

for contributions to diagnostics and control in mechatronics

John Estey

for leadership in development of power system distribution equipment

Leslie Falkingham

for contribution to the development and commercialization of vacuum interrupter technology

Masoud Farzaneh

for leadership in the area of ice-covered insulator flashover mechanisms and development of application guidelines

Avelino Gonzalez

for contributions to intelligent monitoring and diagnostics of power systems

Xiaohong Guan

for contributions to optimization of hydrothermal generation scheduling

Daniel Kirschen

for contributions to analysis of power system economics and power system security

Loi Lei Lai

for contributions to development of computational intelligence techniques to power system applications

Massimo La Scala

for contributions to computationally efficient power system dynamic performance simulation and control

Wei-Jen Lee

for contributions to engineering education and power system analysis

Steven Leeb

for contributions to modeling, design, analysis, and construction of servomechanisms

Carlo Alberto Nucci

for contributions to analysis and modeling of lightning originated phenomena in power systems

Mark O'Malley

for contributions to modeling and control of renewable energy on island power systems

Antonio Orlandi

for contributions to high-speed digital systems

Dean Patterson

for contributions to the design of permanent magnet machines and power electronics education

Carlos Portela

for contributions to high voltage engineering for power transmission and distribution

Nagu Srinivas

for contributions to assessment of vulnerability of aged extruded dielectric power cables by direct current testing

Peter Sutherland

for contributions to harmonic analysis in electrical power systems

John Tengdin

for leadership in ethernet local area network based protective relaying and control in electric power substations

Kevin Tomsovic

for contributions to intelligent systems in power engineering

Roland Watkins

for leadership in development of category system for globally classifying performance of data cable

PES Members Recieve IEEE Awards

IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) members Eric B. Forsyth and Thomas W. Nehl have been named to receive prestigious IEEE awards. Forsyth received the IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award, and Nehl was named the winner of the IEEE Nikola Tesla Award.

The Halperin Award, established in 1986, is given to an individual or a team for outstanding contributions to electric transmission and distribution. The award consists of a certificate and an honorarium.

The Tesla Award, established in 1975, is to an individual or a group of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the generation and utilization of electric power. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium.

Eric B. Forsyth

Eric Forsyth was born in Lancashire U.K. He obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Manchester University. He served as fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force and immigrated to Canada in 1957. He was awarded a masters of applied science in electrical engineering in 1961 from the University of Toronto.

In 1960 he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he worked on the design of the alternating gradient synchrotron (AGS). In 1969 he started work on the design of future particle accelerators employing superconducting magnets. This led to an investigation of the application of superconductivity to power transmission systems. He managed the research and design of a prototype superconducting transmission line which first operated in 1982. Two cables about 100-m long were designed to operate at 138 kV and 4,100 A per phase. Numerous tests over a four-year period established the technical viability of this technology including extended overloads up to 500 MVA per phase.

In 1986 Mr. Forsyth was appointed chair of the Accelerator Development Department charged with the construction of a booster accelerator for the AGS, the construction of magnets for the superconducting super collider in Texas, and the preconstruction design and planning of the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven. RHlC was built and successfully operated in 1999. Mr. Forsyth is a Life Fellow of the IEEE; he has published over 100 technical papers and holds four patents. He was awarded the Dielectrics Prize by the Japanese Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1985.

Since his retirement in 1995, Mr. Forsyth has divided his time between his home in Brookhaven, New York, and his sailboat Fiona.

Thomas W. Nehl

Thomas W. Nehl was born in Tübingen, Germany, in 1952 and immigrated to the United States in 1960. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1980 and subsequently joined its faculty as an assistant professor. In 1983 he joined the General Motors Research Labs to pursue research on electromechanical systems. Since 1999, has been a group leader for Mechatronics at Delphi Research Labs (DRL).

During his years at GM, Dr. Nehl developed two-dimensional and three-dimensional finite element software that was widely used in the design fuel injectors and other electromechanical devices that are in use on millions of vehicles. This work resulted in four major GM awards due to its business impact. He also pursued research on brushless drives for accessory and traction applications. This includes finite element and lumped parameter models used in the development of low torque ripple sine-based PM drives, forerunners of Delphi's current production electric power steering system. More recently he has worked on the electromagnetic design and control of magnetorheological devices (MagneRide semi-active dampers) that has led to new business with Ferrari and other customers.

Dr. Nehl is a member of the IEEE Industry Applications and Power Engineering Societies and has authored and coauthored more than 80 journal, conference and other publications and holds 17 patents and two defensive publications. He received a IEEE Power Engineering Society Award (1994) for Outstanding Technical Reports and a prize paper award from the IEEE IAS EMC (1996). In 1994, Dr. Nehl was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the modeling and development of electronically operated machine systems and drives.

Dr. Nehl and his wife, Cecilia, reside in Shelby Township, Michigan. They are the parents of four children.