What's that resting upon the desk of the director of intelligence?
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IEEE Power & Energy Magazine is everywhere!
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In September 2007, the International Spy Museum, located in Washington, D.C., launched an interactive exhibit titled "Operation Spy." The exhibit allows participants to form teams to take on the role of U.S. intelligence officers on an international mission to locate a missing nuclear device. Each team must debate and determine its final course of action. Some teams will succeed while others will fail. Their actions determine their unique ending and ultimate score. Participants leave "Operation Spy" either congratulated on their success or aware of their failure and conscious of the real challenges of participating in the "great game" of espionage.
The "Operation Spy" set includes the office of Director of Intelligence. That office has in it a desk upon which rests magazines associated with the energy industry and, as a testimonial to the intelligence of the exhibit organizers, the magazines are all issues of our very own IEEE Power & Energy Magazine.
I have previously visited the museum and found it to be a fascinating and rewarding experience. Now I am truly looking forward to my next visit. For more information, visit OpSpy.com.
—Mel Olken
Nominations Wanted
 Three new PES awards, scheduled for presentation in 2008, have been established. Nominations for these awards are due by 1 February. The awards are:
- Leadership in Power
- Lifetime Achievement
- Robert P. Noberini Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Professionalism
Descriptions of the awards and nomination forms may be found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pes/subpages/about-folder/awards.html .
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In Memoriam
 Carl Flick, Life Fellow, passed away on 19 July 2007 at age 81. Carl was born in Vienna, Austria, before immigrating to the United States. He attended the Polytechnic University of New York, graduating summa cum laude in 1951 with a B.E.E.
He began work at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1952. He held varying positions from design engineer to senior engineer and in 1970 became the lead electrical engineer for medium turbine generators. In 1975 he was the lead engineer for the EPRI/Westinghouse superconducting generator design project. In 1984 he assumed the position of advisory engineer for advanced generator concepts and designs, retiring in 1989.
Carl was active in IEEE and PES for many years. He was the chair of the Rotating Machinery Committee (1987–1988) and served as chair of the Power Engineering Education Committee and member of the PES Executive Board (1988–1989). He later served as the secretary of the Superconductivity Council and Division VII representative to the Educational Activities Board. He was a PES Distinguished Lecturer, giving numerous presentations on superconductivity.
He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1984 "for innovations in the design of superconducting and other advanced generators." He was awarded the IEEE Nikola Tesla Award in 1994.
His wife Frances, sons Jack and Larry, and daughter Susan survive him.
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