Karen Butler-Purry, Awards and Recognition Committee chair, announces the award winners.

The following awards were presented during the luncheon:

• IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award to Eric B. Forsyth
• Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award to Richard G. Farmer
• Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award to Goran Andersson, professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• Uno Lamm HVDC Award to H. Peter Lips
• Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering to Cheryl A. Warren
• Nari Hingorani FACTS Award to Aniruddha M. Gole
• Prize Paper Award for "Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Electric Motors" to Sabhasis Nandi, Hamid Toliyat, and Xiaodong Li
• Prize Paper Award for "Comparative Laboratory Evaluation of Pre-Molded Joints for Medium Voltage Cables" to Vitaliy Yaroslavskiy, Michael Walker, Carlos Katz, and Robert Keefe
• Working Group Recognition Award—Outstanding Technical Report for "Application Consideration of IEC 61850/UCA 2 for Substation Ethernet Local Area Network Communication for Protection and Control" to Alex Apostolov, Working Group committee member
• Working Group Recognition Award—Outstanding Standard or Guide for "IEEE Std. C37.119" to Arvind Chaudhary, Working Group vice-chair
• Outstanding Large Chapter to Vancouver Chapter, Meliha Selak, chair
• Outstanding Small Chapter to Richland Chapter, Zhenyu Huang, chair.

• Student Prize Paper Award in Honor of T. Burke Hayes for "Technical and Market Integration of Small Hydroelectric Energy at the Fox River" to Mauracio Burgos-Lopez, undergraduate student, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago
• First Prize Student Poster to Henry Louie, University of Washington, "Market-Oriented Wind Farm Integration Analysis of Energy Storage-Based Solutions," by Henry Louie, Johnathon Gross, and Kai Strunz
• Second Prize Student Poster to Min Gui, Kansas State University, "Prediction and Anomaly Detection of Animal-Related Failures in Overhead Distribution Systems," by Min Gui, Anil Pahwa, and Sanjoy Das
• Second Prize Student Poster to Swakshar Ray, University of Missouri-Rolla, "Performance Comparison of Adaptive Critics and Linear Robust Control Design for a TCSC Damping Controller in a Multi-Area Power System," by Swakshar Ray, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Balarko Chaudhuri, and Rajat Majumder
• Third Prize Student Poster to Yamille del Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Optimal Allocation and Sizing of Multiple STATCOM Units: A Comparison of Classical Optimization Methods and Evolutionary Computation Techniques," by Y. del Valle, A. Gray, G.K. Venayagamoorthy, and R.G. Harley.

Ani Gole, left, recipient of Nari Hingorani FACTS Award, and Cheryl Warren, recipient of Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering.	Eric Forsyth, left, recipient of IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award is congratulated by William Kennedy, IEEE Division VII director.
From left: Richard Farmer, recipient of Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award; Goran Andersson, recipient of Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award; and Peter Lips, recipient of Uno Lamm HVDC Award.	Michael Walker (left) and Vitaliy Yaroslavskiy recipients of a Prize Paper Award, with John McDonald (center).
(left) IEEE Power Engineering Society President John McDonald with Hamid Toliyat, recipient of a Prize Paper Award.	(left) Mauracio Burgos-Lopez, recipient of Student Prize Paper Award in Honor of T. Burke Hayes and Mohammad Shahidehpour, electrical engineering professor and research advisor.
Working Group committee member Alex Apostolov (left) receives the Working Group Recognition Award—Outstanding Technical Report from IEEE Power Engineering Society President John McDonald.	The 2007 Outstanding Small Chapter Award goes to Richland. Shown are (from left) Chapter Awards Committee Chair Edward Carlsen, Richland Chapter Chair Zhenyu Huang, and John McDonald.
Vancouver wins the 2007 Outstanding Large Chapter Award. Shown are (from left) Chapter Awards Committee Chair Edward Carlsen, Vancouver Chapter Chair Meliha Selak, and John McDonald.	(left) John McDonald congratulates Working Group Vice-Chair Arvind Chaudhary (right) on the Working Group Recognition Award—Outstanding Standard or Guide.

Student poster winners. (From left) Student Meetings Subcommittee chair Joydeep Mitra, Karen Butler-Purry, Third Place Student Poster recipient Yamille del Valle, First Place Student Poster recipient Henry Louie, Student/Faculty/ Industry Luncheon speaker Mani Venkata; Second Place Student Poster recipient Swakshar Ray, Second Place Student Poster recipient Min Gui, and Student Meetings Subcommittee secretary. Ganesh Venayagamoorthy.