Society Chapter Awards

Committee Chair: Andy Knight, IAS President 2023-2024

Program Information: The Industry Application Society is soliciting interested parties to submit proposals to the Myron Zucker Student Faculty Grant Program. Adhering to Mr. Zucker’s goal, the principal objectives of the Student-Faculty Grant Program are:

• to interest students and faculty in industry applications of electrical engineering;
• to involve students and faculty in engineering problems related to the Scope of the IEEE Industry Applications Society;
• to provide financial assistance to students for their education; and
• to provide seed money to allow faculty members to commence or expand teaching, research, or academic concentrations in industry applications of electrical engineering.

In general, the Program functions much like a research support agency. It is administered by the IEEE Industry Applications Society through its Zucker Grant Committee with the consent of the IEEE Foundation.

The project must be designed to produce publishable results in one year (12 months). The preferred period of performance (for these 12 months) is September 1st through August 31st of the following year. The funding is such that approximately two grants, not exceeding $25,000 each, can be awarded during each annual proposal cycle. This endowment is the programs only funding source; no other sources, including IEEE membership dues, are used.

Each project must be under the primary direction of a person who holds a full-time regular academic appointment on the engineering teaching faculty of an institution of higher education. This individual must be a member of IEEE. This is to be strictly enforced by the IEEE Foundation and any entries that do not meet this criteria will be rejected

Deadline of Application: 15 April 2025

Program Letter & Forms:

• IAS Myron Zucker Student-Faculty Grant Program Letter
• Program Guidelines
• Program Application

2023 Faculty Grant Awardees are:

First Place

Design Principle and Practice of Novel Bearingless Motor Systems with Improved Suspension Performances

Christopher H. T. Lee, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

Second Place

Single -Stage Buck-Boost DC/AC Power Conversion with Non-Pulsating AC Output Waveforms for Electrified Traction Applications

Mahima Gupta, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland State University, Portland Oregon 97201

Previous Winners:

2022

• SMART INDUSTRIAL POWER SYSTEMS WITH ADVANCED DATA ANALYTICS FOR PROACTIVE AND PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE, Universidad del Rosario, Faculty Advisor: David Celeita
• Surge Protection of Electric Car Charging Stations, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty Advisor: Thomas Tsovilis

2021

• High-Reliability Electric Propulsion Drives based on Digital Twin Technologies, University of Kentucky, Faculty Advisor: JiangBiao He
• FPGA Based Cost-effective Digital Protection Schemes for Reliable Protection of Large-scale Wind Farms, Lakehead University, Faculty Advisor: Mohammed Uddin

2020 

• Enhancing the Security of Distributed Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach to Protect and Authenticate Grid Embedded Devices, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University, Faculity Advisor: Charalambos Konstantinou
• Robustness Enhancement of Model Predictive Control for Medium Voltage Drives (RMPC4MVD), Tampere University. FAculty Advisor: Petros Karamanakos

2019

• Compact, Reliable, and Robust Gan-Based Active Rectifiers for More Electric Aircrafts, Kansas State University.  Faculty Advisor:  Mohammad Shadmand
• Fractal-based approach for direct-stroke shielding of substations against lightning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.  Faculty Advisor:  Thomas Tsovilis, Assistant Professor

2018

• Power Grid Resilience to Extreme Weather Conditions:  Unlocking the Full Potential of Grid-Scale Renewables and Battery Storages – George Washington University USA
• Development of a New Internet of Things (IoT) Network and Cybersecurity Framework toward Wireless Battery Management Systems in Cyber Physical Environments, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA

2017

• High Density Wide Band Gap Based Variable Frequency Power Factor Correction AC/DC Rectifier for More Electric Aircraft, Concordia University, Canada – Academic Advisor:  Akshay Kumar Rathore.
• Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis for Induction Motors, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada- Academic Advisor:  Dr. Xiaodong Liang.