IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award
About the Award
The IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award was established to recognize engineers 35 years of age or under “for outstanding contributions in the leadership of technical society activities including local and/or transnational PES and other technical societies, leadership in community and humanitarian activities, and evidence of technical competence through significant engineering achievements.”
Chair:
Committee Members:
Ali Chowdhury
Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia
Wenzhong (David) Gao
Mario Paolone
Anamika Dubey
2023 Award Recipient
Anamika Dubey for contributions to optimization and control of electric power distribution systems.
Award Details
Purpose:
To recognize engineers 35 years of age or under “for outstanding contributions in the leadership of technical society activities including local and/or transnational PES and other technical societies, leadership in community and humanitarian activities, and evidence of technical competence through significant engineering achievements.”
Prize:
A plaque, up to $1,000 USD travel reimbursement to attend the IEEE PES Annual Meeting, and have the privilege of designating a college or university to receive a $2,000 USD scholarship for an electrical engineering undergraduate.
Eligibility:
To be eligible for the award, an individual must be 35 years of age or under on January 1 of the presentation year, have been a member of PES for at least one year, and as a minimum have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from an accredited electrical engineering program or equivalent. Nominations can be made by any PES member with the endorsement by the chapter or technical committee of which the individual is a member.
Factors to be considered for selection include: local/transnational PES activities and leadership, professional society activities, evidence of technical competence and achievement, community and humanitarian activities, educational achievements, and professional registration.
IMPORTANT NOTES: One award will be given per year. If no suitable candidate is proposed in a given year, the award will not be presented for that year.
PES, being one of IEEE’s Organizational Units, follows IEEE Policy 4.4H:
- Eligibility and Process Limitations. Individuals serving on any board or committee involved at any stage of the recipient selection or approval process for an award shall be ineligible to receive, or act as a nominator or reference for that award. This conflict of interest limitation shall apply to all awards given by the IEEE or any of its organizational units
Previous Award Recipients
2022 Award Recipient – Junbo Zhao
2021 Award Recipient – Daniel Kenneth Molzahn
2020 Award Recipient – Zhaoyu Wang
2019 Award Recipient – Sairaj Dhople
2018 Award Recipient – Ali Mehrizi-Sani
2017 Award Recipient – Le Xie
2016 Award Recipient – Kory W. Hedman
Past Recipients:
(formerly the Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award, renamed the Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2008)
1988 – Pierre Bornard
1989 – Ali Nourai
1990 – John G. Kappenman
1991 – Kwa-Sur Tam
1992 – Mark G. Lauby
1993 – Tom Overbye
1994 – Lei Wang
1997 – Mariesa L. Crow
1998 – Kraig J. Olejniczak
1999 – Miguel Velez-Reyes
2000 – Christopher W. Hickman
2001 – Michael R. Ingram
2002 – Jeffrey H. Nelson
2002 – Noel N. Schulz
2003 – Richard E. Brown
2004 – Mark Laufenberg
2005 – Efrain O’Neill-Carrillo
2006 – Marcelino Madrigal
2006 – Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy
2007 – Karen Nan Miu Miller
2008 – William Rosehart
2009 – Zhenyu (Henry) Huang
2010 – Luiz Barroso
2011 – Ted K. A. Brekken
2012 – Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia
2013 – Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann
2014 – Shay Bahramirad
2015 – Siddharth Suryanarayanan