The IEEE Nikola Tesla Award is an annual award given each year to a team or to an individual that has made an outstanding contribution to the generation or utilization of electric power. It is awarded by a Technical Field Awards Council of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award is named in honor of Nikola Tesla. The award was established in 1975, and its first recipient was Leon T. Rosenberg, who was given the award in 1976 for his half-century of development and design of large steam turbine driven generators and his important contributions to literature. The actual award is a plaque and honorarium.
Recipients
- 2006 - Konrad Reichert, ETH Zentrum (Zurich, Switzerland)
- For contributions to the development of numerical methods and computer analysis and simulation of electrical machines and devices.
- 2005 - Thomas M. Jahns, Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
- For pioneering contributions to the design and application of AC permanent magnet machines.
- 2004 - Sheppard Joel Salon, Professor, Electrical, Computers, and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York
- For pioneering and outstanding contributions to transient finite element computation of electric machines coupled to electronic circuits; and to electro-mechanical devices.
- 2003 - Austin H. Bonnett, Retired-Vice President Technology Emeritus, Emerson Electric, Elec Apparatus Service Association (EASA), Natitional Electric Manufacturers Association (NEMA), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and US Dept of Energy and Affiliates (DOE)
- For leadership in the development and application of design standards, maintenance technology, and operating practices to optimize induction motor performance.
- 2002 - James L Kirtley Jr, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
- For contributions to the theoretical analysis, design, and construction of high performance rotating electric machinery, including superconducting turbogenerators.
- 2001 - Steve Williamson, University of Manchester - Manchester, United Kingdom
- For the development of advanced mathematical models and computational tools for induction machine design.
- 2000 - Syed Abu Nasar University of Kentucky - Lexington, Kentucky
- For leadership in the research, development and design of linear and rotating machines, and contributions to electrical engineering education.
- 1999 - Nabeel Aly Omar Demerdash, Professor and Past Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- For pioneering contributions to electric machine and drive system design using coupled finite-element and electrical network models.
- 1998 - Paul Dandeno, University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- For contribution to modelling and application of synchronous machines, power system controls, and stability analysis.
- 1997 - Prabhashankar Kundur, Powertech Labs Inc. - Surrey, BC, Canada
- For contribution to modeling and application of synchronous machines, power system controls, and stability analysis.
- 1996 - John A. Tegopoulos, National Technical University of Athens - Athens, Greece
- For pioneering contributions in electrical machine design.
- 1995 - Thomas A. Lipo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- For pioneering contributions to the simulation and application of electric machinery in solid-state ac motor drives.
- 1994 - Carl Flick, Techno-Lexic - Winter Park, Florida, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Orlando, Florida
- For long-term creative contributions and leadership in the design and development of advanced high-speed generators.
- 1993 - Madabushi V.K. Chari, General Electric Co. - Schenectady, New York
- For pioneering contributions to finite element computations of nonlinear electromagnetic fields for design and analysis of electric machinery.
- 1992 - Thomas Herbert Barton, University of Calgary, Canada
- For the practical application of the generalized theory of electrical machines to A.C. and D.C. drives.
- 1991 - Michel E. Poloujadoff, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris, France
- For contributions to the theory of electrical machinery and its application to linear induction motors.
- 1990 - Gordon R. Slemon, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- For application of modeling in electric power equipment and technical leadership in power education.
- 1989 - Dietrich R. Lambrecht, Siemens AG - Ruhr, W. Germany
- For leadership and contributions to advances in large turbine generator design, construction, and application.
- 1988 - Edward I. King, Westinghouse Electric Corporation. - Orlando, Florida
- For contributions to computer-aided analysis and design of large rotating machinery.
- 1987 - J. Coleman White, Electric Pwr. Res. Inst. - Palo Alto, CA
- For contributions to the research, development, and design of ac and dc rotating machines.
- 1986 - Eric R. Laithwaite, Imperial Coll. of Sci. & Tech. - London, England
- For contributions to the development and understanding of electric machines and especially of the linear induction motor.
- 1985 - Eugene C. Whitney, Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Pittsburgh, PA
- For outstanding contributions to the development, design, and constructionn of large rotating electric machinery.
- 1984 - Herbert H. Woodson, University of Texas at Austin - Austin, Texas
- For contributions to power generation technology particularly in superconducting generators and magnetohydrodynamic generators.
- 1983 - NO AWARD
- 1982 - Sakae Yamamura, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- For contributions to the theory of linear induction motors and the development of magnetic levitation of track vehicles.
- 1981 - Dean B. Harrington, General Electric Co. - Schenectady, New York
- For contributions to the design, development and performance analysis of large steam turbine-generators.
- 1980 - Philip H. Tricky, Duke University - Durham, North Carolina
- For advancement in the development and application of Tesla's theories through precise designs of small induction machines.
- 1979 - John W. Batchelor, Westinghouse Electric Corporation - E. Pittsburgh, PA
- For contributions to the design of large turbine driven generators and the development of related international standards.
- 1978 - Charles H. Holley, General Electric Co. - Schenectady, New York
- For contributions to the evolution of turbine generator designs with achievement in performance and reliability.
- 1977 - Cyril G. Veinott, University of Missouri
- For his leadership in development and application of small induction motors.
- 1976 - Leon T. Rosenberg, Allis-Chalmers Pwr. Sys. Inc. - West Allis, WI
- For his half-century of development and design of large steam turbine driven generators and his important contributions to literature.
External Articles
Further reading
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, "Past to present : a century of honors : the first hundred years of award winners, honorary members, past presidents, and fellows of the Institute / the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.". ew York, IEEE Press, c1984. ISBN 0-87942-177-0
