IEEE PELS Outstanding Achievement Award on Aerospace Power
About the Award
The IEEE PELS Outstanding Achievement Award in Aerospace Power recognizes innovators and researchers who have made outstanding technical contributions to the advancement of power electronic components and systems for both aviation and space applications.
Award Prize:
- A plaque
- An honorarium of 1,500 USD
- Reimbursement of up to 1,000 USD towards the recipient’s necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony
Submitting a Nominee
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The portal to submit a nomination is now closed.
Award Details
Recognizing Outstanding Achievements
2024 Honoree:
Bulent Sarlioglu
for contributions to the research and development of high-performance electric drives for aerospace applications
Dr. Bulent Sarlioglu is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Director of Technology and Collaboration at the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium. From 2000 to 2011, he was with Honeywell International Inc.’s Aerospace Division, Torrance, CA, USA, most recently as a Staff Systems Engineer.
His expertise includes electrical machines, drives, and power electronics. He is the inventor or co-inventor of 22 U.S. and many international patents. In addition, he has more than 300 technical papers published in conference proceedings and journals. Dr. Sarlioglu received the Honeywell’s Outstanding Engineer Award in 2011, the NSF CAREER Award in 2016, and the 4th Grand Nagamori Award from Nagamori Foundation, Japan, in 2018.
Dr. Sarlioglu was the General Chair of ITEC 2018, Technical Program Co-Chair for ECCE 2019, and special session chair of ECCE 2020. In 2021, He received the IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Eligibility Requirements & Criteria
Eligibility: Any active IEEE members are eligible for this award. There are no other restrictions as to affiliation, age, gender, IEEE member grade, or nationality.
Criteria: Judgment of the nominees is based on the following:
- Past relevant activities to the field and PELS TC 11
- Sustained impact on PELS TC 11 and the profession
- The quality of the nomination
- The quality of the technical achievement or innovation
Eligibility Requirements & Criteria
| Year | Recipient Name |
| 2023 | Don Tan |
Questions?
Please send any questions to the PELS Awards Committee.
