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The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Sensorless Controls for Electrical Drives (SLED 2012) will be held September 21-22, 2012 in Milwaukee, WI USA.  Digest Submissions are due June 15, 2012.  The call for papers can be viewed here

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The 2012 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC'12) will be held in at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn Michigan on June 17-20, 2012.  The Conference flyer can be found here.

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The deadline to submit an application to present a tutorial at the 2012 IAS Annual Meeting is 1 May 2012.  Completed forms should be emailed to Joe Sottile, the IAS Education Department Chair at jsottile@ieee.org

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Due to requests for extension of the deadline, the PEMWA 2012 organizing committee decided to accept paper digests until March 20^th.  The updated Call for Papers can be viewed here.

IEEE Symposium on Power Electronics and Machines in Wind Applications – PEMWA 2012, July 16-18, 2012, Denver

Symposium Website: http://durenewable.webs.com/pemwaconference.htm

Facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/PEMWA2012

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The IAS mourns the passing of two of its distinguished members, Prof. Luigi Malesani and Prof. Benjamin Blunier. Our condolences to their respective families.

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The Electrostatic Society of America is accepting papers for their Annual Meeting.  Please visit http://www.electrostatics.org/images/ESA_2012_Call_for_Papers.pdf for full details on paper submissions and deadlines.

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IAS is currerntly accepting 2012 award nominations for Distinguished Service, Outstanding Achievement, Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member and the IPCSD Kliman Awards - nomination forms can be found on the Awards tab of this website.

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Plans are underway for the 2012 IAS Annual Meeting to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 7-11 October, 2012.  

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Congratulations to the newly elected IAS 2012 Fellows.  A listing of IAS Fellows is located by following this link.    

 

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The IAS Executive Board approved the formation of two new committees within the IPCSD Department.  The committes are the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems Committee, chaired by Dan Ionel,  and the Transportation Systems Committee chaired by Iqbal Husain.  

If interested by either of these two committees, please contact Dan Ionel (dan.ionel@ieee.org) or Iqbal Husain (iqbal_husain@ncsu.edu).   

 

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Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Jahns the recipient of the 2011 IAS Outstaning Achievement Award.  

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Congratulations to Dr. Robert Lorenz the recipient of the 2011 IAS Distinguished Service Award. 

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 Congratulations to Leo Lorenz the recipient of the 2011 Gerald Kliman Innovator Award.

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Congratulations to the Award Recipients of the IAS Student Master Thesis Contest 2011. For more details about the next year´s contest, please visit the Bylaws.  

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 Congratulations to William F. Tinney the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering which is sponsored by the Industry Applications Society.  More information can be found here.

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 Congratulations to the following IAS members for being named recipients of IEEE Awards:  

 

 

• David D. Shipp:  IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award
• Nady Boules:     IEEE Nikola Tesla Award
• Praveen Jain:    IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award

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Interested in Smart Grid?  Find additional Smart Grid information here

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Call for nominations - IEEE-SA STANDARDS BOARD AND COMMITTEES: The Nominations and Appointments Committee (N&A) of the IEEE-SA Board of Governors is soliciting the names of candidates to serve on the 2010 IEEE-SA Standards Board and/or its Standing Committees.  Information is available here.

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