IAS Gerald Kliman Award
The IEEE IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department Gerald Kliman Innovator Award was established in 2005 to honor innovators who contributed to the technical areas of this department. The award may be presented annually to an individual for meritorious contributons to the advancement of power conversion technologies through innovations and their application to industry. The technical field for this awrads includes, but is not limited to Elecrical Machines, Electrical Drives, Power Electronic Systems and Power Electronic Devices. This Award is named in honor of Dr. Gerland Kliman, in memory of his many contributions and innovations to these technical areas. This award is sponsored by General Electric through the IEEE Foundation.
The 2022 IEEE IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department Gerald Kliman Innovator Award was presented to Ayman EL-Refaie at the 2022 IAS Annual Meeting/ECCE conference Award ceremony.
Previous Gerald Kliman Award Recipients
| 2021 | Robert N. Guenther, Jr. |
| 2020 | Vladimir Blasko |
| 2019 | Alex Qin Huang |
| 2018 | Fei "Fred" Wang |
| 2017 | Richard Lukaszewski |
| 2016 | Jih-Sjeng (Jason) Lai |
| 2015 | Manoj Shah |
| 2014 | Jan Abraham Ferreira |
| 2013 | Fang Zheng Peng |
| 2012 | Thomas Habetler |
| 2011 | Leo Lorenz |
| 2010 | William Peterson |
| 2009 | John MIller |
| 2008 | Ira J. Pitel |
| 2007 | Bruno Lequesne |
| 2006 | Kaushik Rajashekara |
| 2005 | Russel J. Kerkman |