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Latest PES News
IEEE Power Engineering Medal
   IEEE has established a new prestigious award, the IEEE Power Engineering Medal. The medal and a 20,000 USD stipend will be awarded initially at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in 2010. Nominations for this award, sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy, Industry Applications, Power Electronics and Industrial Engineering Societies are being solicited and submission is required by 1 July. Full details are available.

IEEE Standard 2030 – Smart Grid
   IEEE announced a groundbreaking smart grid initiative for the power engineering, communications and information technology industries with the project approval of the IEEE 2030 Guide for Smart Grid Interoperability of Energy Technology and Information Technology Operation with the Electric Power System (EPS) and End-Use Applications and Loads (P2030). IEEE P2030 is sponsored by IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 21 (SCC21), and the kick-off meeting will be held on June 3-5, 2009, at Intel Corporation headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Registration for in-person meeting attendance is now closed but individuals can register for remote attendance. Complete information is posted.

Power Systems Conference and Exhibition
   PSCE 09, recently held in Seattle, WA, was a roaring success. Meetings VP John Paserba provides a review of the meeting replete with a photo collage.

Worth Another Look
Election of PES Officers
   Later this year the voting membership of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) will have the opportunity to elect our future leadership. The offices of president-elect, secretary, and treasurer for the period 2010–2011 will be decided. Two candidates, nominated by the PES Nominations and Appointments Committee, chaired by past President John McDonald, and approved by the Governing Board, are contesting each office. Their photos, bios, and candidate statements are available.

   Voting members of the Power & Energy Society may, by petition, propose names to be added to the ballot for these offices. Details for this procedure and qualifications for proposed candidates may be found in the PES Bylaws. To be eligible for nomination to the office of president-elect, the nominee shall have served as a member of the PES Governing Board in some capacity for at least two years. More information is available.

   Further details will follow in ensuing e-Newsletters and in IEEE Power & Energy Magazine.

PES Website
  An ambitious project, spearheaded by Edina Bajrektarevic and Henry Louie, is underway to update the PES Website to meet the challenges faced by our industry and by PES. The newly designed website is scheduled to be introduced in the second quarter of this year. Details about the project are posted.

125th Anniversary
   Celebration events commemorating the joint 125th anniversaries of IEEE and PES will take place throughout this year. Further news will be posted as received. President Wanda Reder provided an overview of the year’s activities in the Leader’s Corner column in the January 2009 issue of Power & Energy Magazine. For reference, that column is posted. In addition updates and further information may be found at http://www.ieee125.org/

2010 Boy Scout Jamboree
  PES is a financial sponsor of the Electricity Merit Booth at the 2010 National Boy Scout Jamboree. Volunteers for this event are needed and detailed information is available.

PES Sponsored Meetings

2009 MEETINGS
Powertech
28 June - 02 July. University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, contact Professor Mircea Eremia, Department of Power Systems, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Spl. Independentei, 060042 Bucharest, Romania +40 21 4029344, fax: +40 21 4029446, email powertech2009@system.power.pub.ro or eremia@ieee.org, web: http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/powertech/2009

PES General Meeting (GM)
26 - 30 July. Calgary, Alberta, Canada contact General Chair W. O (Bill) Kennedy, b7kennedy@shaw.ca or Technical Program Chair Om Malik, maliko@ieee.org

IEEE-PES/IAS Conference on Sustainable Alternative Energy
28 - 30 Sep. Valencia, Spain, contact Carlos Alvarez, Instituto de Ingeniieria Energetica, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, CPI, Edificio 8E, Cubo F. 5g, 46022, Valancia, Spain, e-mail clavares@iie.upv.es, Web: http://www.cfp.upv.es/SAE/

2010 Meetings
T&D Conference and Exposition
20 - 22 Apr. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, USA, contact Tommy Mayne, 30523 Woodland Dr., Lacombe, LA 70445, +1 504 427 3390, fax +1 985 882 8059, t.w.mayne@ieee.org, Web: http://www.ieeet-d.org/

IEEE News
HP-35 Scientific Calculator Awarded IEEE Milestone
   IEEE announced that it has recognized the HP-35 scientific calculator as an IEEE Milestone. Introduced in 1972, the HP-35 was the world’s first handheld-sized scientific calculator which ultimately made the slide rule, which had previously been used by generations of engineers and scientists, obsolete. A Milestone plaque will be permanently displayed at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., the site where the HP-35 was originally developed. The news release is available.

Meet the PES Governing Board
Rick Taylor

Meet our newly installed VP of Technical Activities. Rick introduces himself to our members in this posting.

P&E Magazine - May/June 2009
"In My View" Column 
  The May/June P&E Magazine In My View column, “Starring Role for Relays” by Stan Horowitz sets the stage for looking at the future by offering a compendium of the past, which brings us to the present. He then reviews the necessary integration of what we regard today as the traditional protection, control, metering and communications that will be the backbone of tomorrow’s grid. Stan’s insights offer a look at the future structure of the PES Technical Committees that must result from this new order. Further discussion is encouraged and should be sent to molken@ieee.org.

   We also welcome In My View column contributions from our readers and anyone interested in accepting this offer may contact me for details molken@ieee.org.

Accomplished PES Members Recognized
New Senior Members 
  At its April meeting in Youngstown, OH, the IEEE Admissions and Advancement Committee recommended the elevation of a number of PES members to the grade of Senior Member. Their names and sections are posted.

PES Technical Co-sponsored Meetings

2009 Meetings 

European Electricity Market (EEM)
27 - 29 May Leuven, Belgium, contact Dirk Van Hertem, e-mail dirk.vanhertem@ieee.org Web:www.eem09.com

Power Electronics and Machines in Wind Applications (PEMWA)
24 - 26 June University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, contact Jerry Hudgins, e-mail j.hudgins@ieee.org or Dean Patterson, e-mail patterson@ieee.org, both at the University of Nebraska, Web: TBD.

North American Power Symposium (NAPS)
04 - 06 Oct. Starkville, Mississippi, USA, contact Prof. Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University, USA, +1 662-325-2020, e-mail schulz@ece.msstate.edu, Web: http://www.naps09.org/

T&D Asia
27 - 30 Oct. COEX Exhibition Center, Seoul, Korea, contact Young-Hyun Moon, Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yonsei University, 131 Shinchon-Dong, Seodaemun-Ku, Seoul 120-749, +82-2-2123-2771, fax +82-2-2123-7722, e-mail moon@yonsei.ac.kr

IEEE-USA Employment Services
Worldwide Services Offered
    IEEE-USA’s award-winning employment services, previously only offered to US based members, are now available to IEEE members outside of the United States. Non-U.S. jobseekers, employers and IEEE Regions and Sections are invited to take full advantage of this expanding outreach worldwide.

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