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IEEE Fellow Nomination. Switchgear Committee. Fellow. “ Election to IEEE Fellow grade is for personal technical contributions.” Invention, discovery, advancement of the state of the art. Innovation, creativity, and importance. Must be a Senior member to be nominated.
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IEEE Fellow Nomination Switchgear Committee
Fellow • “ Election to IEEE Fellow grade is for personal technical contributions.” • Invention, discovery, advancement of the state of the art. Innovation, creativity, and importance. • Must be a Senior member to be nominated
Fellow Nomination Process • Nomination takes some effort (40 to 50 hours) • Must have a detailed knowledge of the person (they usually must know they are being nominated) • Switchgear Fellows Committee provides committee endorsement and promotes candidates
What Is the PES and IEEE Fellows Committee Looking for? • Three categories • Engineer • Technical Leader • Educator • “a concise and accurate description of technical contributions is of paramount importance”
Technical Contributions • Significant • Documented • Technical papers (single or lead author) • Patents • Standards contributions (w.g. chair, standards medallion, prize standard, etc.)
How to Apply • Know Your Audience/competition • No blanks on the application • Well written, strongly written • No marginal references
Competition • Professors and researchers make up a majority of Fellows • Not uncommon for a candidate to have 60 publications
Process • Application and ref/endorsement forms send by nominator • References and endorsements submitted (March 15th) • PES Fellows Committee • IEEE Fellows Committee
Dr. Leonard L. Grigsby - ChairDr. Peter W. Sauer - Vice ChairBen Johnson - ExCom CoordinatorMembers:Dr. Florencio AboytesDr. Anthony P. AmblerDr. Robert W. BrodersenDr. Herman W. DommelDr. Richard J. DoviakDr. Daniel M. FleetwoodDr. W. Kent FuchsDr. Georgios GiannakisDr. J. Scott GoldsteinDr. David G. GoodenoughDr. Robert E. Hebner, Jr.Dr. Kees A.S. ImminkProf. Rokuya IshiiDr. Kiyoo Itoh Dr. Jose Antonio JardiniProf. Barry W. JohnsonDr. Sherra E. KernsDr. Rajinder P. KhoslaDr. Scott KirkpatrickDr. Stuart A. LongDr. Toshiaki MasuharaDr. Roger D. PollardDr. Mohindar Singh SachdevDr. Marwan A. SimaanDr. James A. SmithDr. Warren L. StutzmanDr. Earl Swartzlander, Jr.Dr. David A. ThompsonDr. Rodger Ziemer 2002 IEEE Fellows Committee
Personal data Education Professional history Citation Nominator Individual contributions Evidence of technical accomplishments Technical publications Patents Other Technical presentations IEEE activities and awards Non-IEEE awards, offices, licenses, etc Application
Fellow Grade References • 5 to 8 (get 8) • MUST be all outstanding • Known references • Talk to everyone and find out how they will grade the person • Make sure they have sent in the reference on time
Fellows Reference • 4. On the basis of the work of the candidate, please indicate whether or not, in your judgement, the candidate meets the requirements for Fellow grade. What distinguishes his/her contributions from the norm? • Yes. Better quality work • This candidate far exceeds the requirements for Fellow grade. The innovative new concepts in equipment and testing methods have caused major changes in our industry greatly improving the reliability of high voltage equipment and reducing the cost of testing. He has had a positive influence and was a significant contributor to all high voltage standards developed by the committee for the past 20 years. He has organized and taught the tutorial for the committee chaired panel sessions, etc. • 5. Please furnish below any additional data not appearing on the nomination form that you feel will be helpful to the Fellow Committee. • None • Mr. X is active in interesting young people in engineering. He is a tutor for math and science students students at his local high school and is a volunteer for the high school science fair judging. In 1996-1998 he was a member of his local school board. Beyond his very significant technical contributions to our industry, he has extended his impact beyond our industry to his community. • On the basis of the candidate’s work in the field indicate a score in the box below. • Qualified 16-50 • Highly Qualified 51-85 30 100+_ • Extraordinarily Qualified 86-100 Marginally Qualified 0-15
Endorsement/society • Endorsement is technically optional • This is one more reference • May carry more weight as it is independent • Vital if committee activities are used as a portion of the justification
Wording • Strongly supporting. • Joe Smith has worked on many standards. • Joe Smith was the chairman of the working group which developed C37xxx, and a major contributor to the development of C37 XYY and XZZ. The innovative new concepts he developed in these standards have revolutionized circuit breaker testing.
How I Can Help! • Give me an outline of the proposed candidates qualifications and I can tell you if I think he/she can be competitive. • I will edit your application and suggest Fellows references • I will write an endorsement