Society Awards

The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society offers Society Awards that are independent of those offered by our Technical Committees. Among these are the Merit Award given for outstanding technical contributions, the Shea Award given for outstanding service to IEEE NPSS and Graduate Scholarship awards given to graduate students of exceptional promise. We are pleased to recognize these individuals here.

2004 Merit Award
Kenneth R. Prestwich

Kenneth R. Prestwich received his B.S.E.E.from the University of Idaho in 1962 and his M.S.E.E. from the University of New Mexico in 1964. Mr. Prestwich has over forty years of experience in pulsed power engineering, research, development, project management and program management. He has published extensively in this area. He was awarded the Erwin Marx Award in 1987 by the pulsed power community in recognition of his technical contributions to pulsed power over an extended period of time. Due to Ken's efforts, this award is now an IEEE NPSS Conference Award and is presented biannually at IEEE International Pulsed Power Conferences. Ken also received two DOE Awards of Excellence, one in 1983 and other one in 1989. From 1996 to the present, he has been a pulsed power engineering consultant providing technical advice on research and development projects, engineering analysis, experiment analysis, and program, project and proposal reviews for the Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and nine private companies.
Ken retired from Sandia National Laboratories in 1996. During his 34 years at Sandia, he advanced from a Technical Staff Member to a Level II Manager with extensive responsibilities on projects for DOE and DOD. His area of expertise is developing high peak power accelerators including research to advance pulsed power technology and to explore applications of the technology. He has managed many large projects such as Hermes III with up to 120 people working on the project. He has been directly responsible at Sandia for up to seventy people working on R&D in pulsed power. He was responsible for work on defense applications of pulsed power continuously from 1973 to 1996 with peak funding in the 1980's of $16M. This work was performed for twelve DOD organizations with continuous effort for the Air Force Research Laboratory for over twenty years. He was responsible for managing and marketing much of this activity. He has been a technical advisor to various DOD organizations throughout his career.
Kenneth R. Prestwich was a key contributor in the effort to establish the NPSS Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee in 1994-1995. Ken was the first Chairman of PPS&T Committee serving in 1995 and 1996. He played a major role in making this Committee an active, successful, forward looking NPSS Committee. Mr. Prestwich served as first PPS&T Representative to NPSS AdCom during 1995 and 1996. He wrote the criteria for the Erwin Marx Award, Peter Haas Award, and Outstanding Pulsed Power Student Award with input from two other committee members. He obtained approval from PPS&T, NPSS ADCOM, TAB Awards Committee and TAB for these awards to become NPSS Conference Awards. Mr. Prestwich was the Chairman of PPS&T Awards Committee for the 1997 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, the first conference in which the above three NPSS Conference awards were selected and presented. With Dr. Robert Barker's help, he originated the initial proposal to periodically combine or collocate the Pulsed Power and ICOPS Conferences. In 1999 and 2000, Mr. Prestwich led the PPS&T Subcommittee to create a Constitution and By-Laws for PPS&T. In 1995 and 1996 , Mr Prestwich, Dr. Edl Schamiloglu, Dr. Bill Baker and Dr. Gerry Cooperstein were Guest Editors of the Transactions on Plasma Science First Special Issue on Pulsed Power Science and Technology. These Special Issues are published about one year after each Pulsed Power Conference. The fourth Special Issue will be published in the fall of 2004.
Kenneth Prestwich can be reached at Kenneth R. Prestwich Consulting, 12201 Cedar Ridge NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87112; Phone:+1 505 298-2867; Fax: +1 505 271-4669; E-mail: Krprestwich@cs.com.

2004 Richard F. Shea Award
Edward J. Lampo

Edward J. Lampo is a member of the technical staff at the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL). Ed is an electronics engineer and has worked primarily with nuclear detector systems, specializing in low noise conversion of small signals. Currently he is responsible for quality of operations at LBL's Advanced Light Source. Previous assignments include: systems group leader for High Energy Physics Division, head of the Instrumentation and Technical Support Group for the Electronics Department, project engineer for Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detector system at SLAC, development of biomedical electronics, and leader of the Environmental Instrumentation Group.
IEEE involvements initially centered on the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society - especially the Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS). In 1987, after many years of attending the meeting, Ed took on responsibility for NSS Local Arrangements and has continued in various capacities ever since; General Chairman, Session Leader, Travel Coordinator, Arrangements Chair, Organizing Committee, and Site Selection Committee. In 1992 he was appointed NPSS Treasurer and serves as a board member of NPSS AdCom.

IEEE Committees
Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

• Treasurer (1992 - )
• Finance Committee (1992 - )
• Conference Policy Committee (1996 - )

Radiation Instrumentation (NSS)

• Technical Committee (1987 - )
• Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee (1999 - 2001)
• NSS/MIC General Chair (1993)
• Publications Committee (2001)
• Awards Committee (1999)
• Environmental Instrumentation, Measurement & Monitoring Comm (1992 - 1993)
• Continuing Education Committee (1989 - 1999)

Local

• Officer & charter member of San Francisco East Bay Chapter of NPSS (1992)

Technical Activities Board

• Finance Committee (2001 - )
• Infrastructure Allocation Task Force (2001)
• Indirect Infrastructure Committee (2002)
• Committee to Review/Revise "Watch List" Metrics (2003)
• Society Review Committee (2002 - )

Citation: For outstanding service to the IEEE as Treasurer of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society for 12 years, including financial overseeing of the society, three journals and numerous yearly conferences.
Edward Lampo can be reached at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MS80-1, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720-8009; Phone: +1 510 486-6779; Fax: +1 510 486-5800; E-mail: e.lampo@ieee.org.

Graduate Scholarship Awards
Sriram M. Parameswaran

Sriram M Parameswaran was born in Chennai, India in 1981. He received his BE degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Madras, Madras, India. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville under Professor Igor Alexeff.
He is actively involved with experimental models of Ball lightning, Plasma antennae and Atmospheric pressure plasma for decontamination.

Hao D. Xiong

Hao Xiong was born in Nanchang, P.R. China in 1977. He received the B.S. degree in Material Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, in 2003 respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University.
His research interests include low frequency noise and radiation effects in semiconductor devices, charge trapping effects in SOI buried oxides, and oxide reliability.

PHELPS GRANTS

On behalf of NPSS, the Radiation Effects Steering Group is proud to announce three recipients for the Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant.

Philippe C. Adell

Philippe Adell received an Engineer Degree in Material Science from the Polytechnic Institute at the University of Montpellier in 1999 and a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. In his Master's work, Philippe developed a methodology for analyzing single event transients using a combination of simulations and experiments which is now in common use by the radiation community. Philippe has written eight journal papers and conference papers, including four that were presented at the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference. He has contributed as a co-author to four other papers. He is currently in the Ph.D. program in electrical engineering at Vanderbilt University, studying the effects of total-dose radiation and single-event effects in DC/DC power converters. Philippe was nominated by his professor, Dr. Ronald D. Schrimpf.

Akil K. Sutton

Akil K. Sutton received his Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering in 2003 with top honors at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Akil's research is focused on radiation effects of SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) devices and circuits. He is currently in the Ph.D. program in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, performing device-level studies of multiple generations of SiGe HBTs. His study is focused on the development of viable mitigating approaches to single event upsets in digital logic design. He has published one paper and coauthored five other IEEE papers. Akil was nominated by his professor, Dr. John D. Cressler.

Hao D. Xiong

Hao D. Xiong received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2003. Hao has been an author or coauthor of seven technical journal articles, including two that were published in the 2002 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. One of these was recognized as a Meritorious Conference Paper at the 2002 IEEE NSREC. Hao also has been an invited speaker at a SPIE international conference on noise. He has applied the Dutta-Horn formalism for characterizing 1/f noise to measure with high precision the temperature dependent noise features in MOSFET transistors before and after radiation exposure. Hao worked on the development of a cryostat based low noise system that allows one to perform accurate threshold voltage versus temperature measurements. Hao was nominated by his professor, Dr. Daniel M. Fleetwood.