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The Institute offers a number of prestigious awards
for outstanding service or achievement in one’s technical field
and to the Institute. The 2004 Steinmetz award recipient, Julian
Forster, is the first member of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
Society to win such a Technical Field Award, given for exceptional
contributions to the development of standards in electrical and
electronics engineering. Congratulations, Jay! We have had only
one other recipient of an Institute award, the Emberson Service
Award given in 2003 to W. Kenneth Dawson.
Surely there are more members of NPSS who are eligible for these
awards. Look at the criteria and at your colleagues and let’s
see a whole string of these.
Julian Forster
The IEEE has named Julian
“Jay” Forster, retired consultant for General Electric
in San Jose, California, as the recipient of the 2004 Charles Proteus
Steinmetz award. Forster has made vital contributions to the early
commercialization of nuclear power while providing sustained, innovative
leadership in the IEEE standards development process.
The award, presented in New York on Dec. 5, 2004, celebrates major
contributions in the development of standards in the fields of electrical
and electronic engineering. While pursuing a career of over three
decades in the growth and success of commercial nuclear power, first
at the General Electric Atomic Power Division in San Jose, CA, and
then at Quadrex Corporation in Campbell, CA, Jay has contributed
to the development of IEEE standards, from 1969-1971 as a member
of the Standards Association board, and as the leader of the team
that developed the first IEEE nuclear safety standard, IEEE Standard
279 (now IEEE Standard 603), Criteria for Protection Systems for
Nuclear Power Generating Stations. He also initiated the writing
of computer hardware and software standards, and worked to improve
the Standards review and approval process.
Jay, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, belongs to the IEEE Computer Society,
the Power Engineering Society and the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
Society. He has been a member of the International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC) TC-45 Standards Committee since 1969 and serves
on the ANSI N-42 Standards Committee of Radiation Instrumentation.
An active member of the NPSS, he is the liaison to the IEEE PACE
and Standards committees and has organized, at the Nuclear Science
Symposium since 1967, a Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems, serving
as its chair some 20 times. Jay has also been honored by IEEE as
the recipient of the IEEE Professional Achievement Award, the IEEE
Standards Board Distinguished Service Award, the IEEE Third Millennium
Medal and the IEEE NPSS Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award.
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the development of
standards in the nuclear power industry, and for sustained, innovative
leadership in the IEEE Standards development process.
Jay Forster can be reached at General Electric – Nuclear
Engineering M/C 344, 175 Curtner Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125; Phone:
+1 408 925-5090; Fax: +1 408 925-2923; E-mail: jay.forster@gene.ge.com.
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