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Electrical Machines & Power Electronics (EMPE) Laboratory
at Texas A&M University
The following is a list of Awards and Honors of EMPE Lab.
Best Paper Awards:
1- Best Paper Second Prize Award, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Electrical Machine Technical Committee, IECON 2008, Nov. 10-13, 2008, Orlando, FL, for the paper “Sensorless Direct Torque Control and Indirect Flux Control of Brushless DC Motor with Non-Sinusoidal Back-EMF” Proceedings of the IEEE-IECON’08," authored by S.B. Ozturk, and H.A. Toliyat.
2- Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES), 2007, for the paper “Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Electrical Machines-A Review,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 20, No. 4, Dec. 2005, pp. 719-729, authored by S. Nandi, H. A. Toliyat, and X. Li.
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Dr. Hamid Toliyat, professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the 2007 IEEE Power Engineering Society Best Transactions Paper Award from Mr. John McDonald IEEE-PES President. |
3- Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power Engineering Electric Machinery Committee, 2007, for the same paper as in #2.
4- Third Prize Transactions Paper Award, IEEE Industry Applications Society, 2006, for the paper , “A New Five-Phase Permanent Magnet Motor Drive for Traction Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 41, No. 1, Jan./Feb. 2005, pp. 30-37 authored by L. Parsa, and H.A. Toliyat
5- Prize Paper Award, Electric Machinery Committee of the IEEE Power Engineering Society, Best Transactions paper, 1996, for the paper "Analysis of Concentrated Winding Induction Machines for Adjustable Speed Drive Applications-Experimental Results," IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 9, No. 4, Dec. 1994, pp. 695-700, authored by H.A. Toliyat, and T.A. Lipo.
Other honors
1- IEEE Fellow for “Contributions to the Design, Analysis and Control of Multi-Phase Fault Tolerant Electric Machines”.
2- Raytheon Endowed Professor
3- IEEE Industry Applications Society Executive Board, Member, 2008-present
4- Patent and Innovation Award, Texas A&M University System Office of Technology Commercialization’s, 2007.
5- TEES Fellow Award, Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), $5000.0 prize award, Fall 2006
6- Professional Engineer, State of Texas, P.E. # 97974
7- Chair, Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department of IEEE Industry Applications Society, 2007-Present
8- Outstanding Professor Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, $5000.0 prize award, Fall 2005
9- Cyrill Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society, $5000 prize award, 2004
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Dr. Hamid Toliyat, professor for the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M, received the 2004 Cyril Veinott Award, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power Engineering Society (PES) award. Mr. John McDonald IEEE-PES President presented Prof. Toliyat the award. The Cyril Veinott Award is given for outstanding contributions to the field of electromechanical energy conversion. Candidates are nominated for consideration by peers. Prof. Toliyat received a plaque, a $5000 honorarium, and recognition at the recent IEEE-IEMDC’05. Selection criteria includes: career dedication to the electric power engineering profession and career contributions to the development, design, analysis, or manufacturing of electromechanical energy conversion systems or devices.
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10- General Chair, International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEEE-IEMDC’05), May 15-18, 2005, San Antonio, Texas
11- TEES Fellow Award, Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), $5000.0 prize award, Fall 2004
12- Listed in Marquis Who’sWho is the World, 24th Edition, 2007
13- Editor, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
14- Distinguished Achievement Award, in recognition of distinguished achievements in teaching, Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, Fall 2003, $2000 prize award.
15- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
16- E.D. Brockett Professorship Award, Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), $4000.0 prize award, 2002-2003
17- Appeared on People’s Agenda talk show of KERA 90.1 Dallas/Fort Worth/Denton on “Fuel Cell Research and other Aspects of Automotive Research,” January 7, 2003, 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
18- Member of Editorial Board, Electric Power Components and Systems Journal
19- Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Electrical Engineering – Romania
20- Schlumberger Foundation Technical Awards, $25,000 prize award, April 2001
21- Eugene E. Webb’43 Faculty Fellow Award, Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), , $5000.0 prize award, for “Overall contribution to the Engineering Program including classroom instruction, scholarly activities and professional service”, 2000-2001.
22- Select Young Investigator Award, Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), $5000.0 stipend, 1999.
23- Schlumberger Foundation Technical Awards, $30,000.0 prize award, April 2000
24- Space Act Award by NASA Inventions and Contributions Board, $250.0 prize award, April 1999
25- Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in American Education, 6th Edition
26- Member of ASEE, Nov. 1999
27- Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 5th Edition.
28- Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 4th Edition.