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2010 SocietyLeadership AnnouncedIn an electronic ballot in September,the Society Council elected the lead-ers of the IEEE Industry Applica-tions Society (IAS) for 2010. Theresults are as follows:

n President: Thomas Nondahln President elect: Bruno Lequesnen Vice president: Blake Lloydn Treasurer: Don Zinger.n Operating Department chairs

n Industrial Power Conver-sion: Giovanna Oriti

n Manufacturing Systems andApplication Development:Dave Kankam

n Industrial and CommercialPower Systems: Tom Baldwin

n Process Industries: DaveDurocher.

n Executive Board members at largen J.J. Dain Terry Hazeln Longya Xun Guiseppe Parisen Joel McConnelln Nick Nageln Rod Simmonsn Nobuyuki Matzui.

In addition, Tom Nondahl hasappointed the following chairs ofStaff Departments:

n Chapters and Membership: PeterMagyar

n Standards: Dave Millsn Education: Donald Dunnn Awards: Andrew Bagleyn Meetings: Mark Nelmsn Publications: Kevin Peterson.

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIAS.2009.935090

The 2010 IAS officers. From left: Tom Nondahl, president; Bruno Lequesne,president elect; Blake Lloyd, vice president; and Don Zinger, treasurer.

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Operating Department chairs. Fromleft: Dave Durocher, PID, and DaveKankam, MSDAD. (Not shown:Giovanna Oriti, IPCSD, and TomBaldwin, I&CPS.)

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2009 Chapter AwardsFor many IAS members, participationin the Society activities is limited toevents and programs sponsored bylocal Chapters. Each year, the IASMeetings Department recognizes IASChapters for their excellence in meet-ing the needs of IAS members on aregional basis. The following Chaptersreceived awards at the 2009 AnnualMeeting in Houston:

n Outstanding Large Chapter: SanFrancisco Section, IAS Chapter

n Outstanding Large Joint Chap-ter: Delhi Section, Joint PES/IAS Chapter

n Outstanding Small Joint Chap-ter: Hong Kong Section, JointIAS/PES/PELS/IES Chapter

n Continued Outstanding Per-forming Chapter: Panama Sec-tion, IAS Chapter

n Outstanding New Chapter:Nanjing Section, Joint PES/IAS Chapter.

Congratulations to these Chapters!

Awards DeadlinesAre ApproachingDon’t forget that the deadlines forsubmitting the nominations for thevarious IEEE awards generally fallduring the first half of the year. If youhave someone in mind for nominationthis year, this is the time to get startedon the nomination. The deadlines forthe nominations are as follows:

n IEEE Technical Field Awards:31 January

n IEEE Fellow Nominations:1 March

n IAS Distinguished Service Award:1 April

n IAS Outstanding AchievementAward: 1 April

n IAS Outstanding Young Engi-neer Award: 1 April

n Gerald Kliman InnovationAward: 1 June

n IEEE Medals: 1 July.

IEEE Joint IAS/PELS/IESGerman ChapterMeet in MunichThe IEEE Joint IAS/Power Electron-ics Society (PELS)/IEEE ElectronicsSociety (IES) German Chapter met

on 6–7 August 2009 in Munich, Ger-many. The meeting was hosted byBundeswehr University Munich andFEAAM GmbH; the latter is a spin-off enterprise of the university.

The meeting started with a guidedcity tour of Munich followed by a din-ner at the Bavarian restaurant, WeissesBrauhaus, with typical Bavarian beerand food. As always, this evening was agood opportunity to learn about anddiscuss each other’s fields of interest in afriendly atmosphere, to meet old friends,and, of course, to make new ones.

The introductory presentation wasgiven by Dieter Gerling, dean of theDepartment of Electrical Engineeringand Information Science at BundeswehrUniversity. Bundeswehr University isone of the two universities in Germanysponsored by the Bundesministeriumfur Verteidigung, the German Ministryof Defense. The university was foundedin 1973 with the aim of providing offi-cers with a university education thatwould also prepare them for civiliancareers, and almost 3,700 students,including 360 women, 150 foreign offi-cers, and 50 civil students, are currentlyenrolled at this university.

Bundeswehr University followsseveral practices that differ from otherGerman universities. To acceleratethe program, the students study intrimesters so that it is possible forthem to earn a master’s degree in 3.75years. Studies must be finished with-in four years, and about 80% of theentering students meet that require-ment. Although the bachelor’s andmaster’s students are members of the

IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES R. HEISING

Charles R. Heising received the B.S.E.E. degree from Cornell University,Ithaca, New York, and joined the General Electric (GE) Company in

Schenectady, New York. The initial years of his career were in the controldesign of jet engines. Then he moved into the field of reliability, initially inconjunction with jet engines but later extending to military electronics andthe Apollo spacecraft program. From 1966 until his retirement from GE, hewas the reliability expert for GE’s Power Transmission Division in Philadel-phia, Pennsylvania. After retirement, he continued to be involved in thefield through his own company, Industrial Reliability Technology, Inc., andas a member of the board of directors of Alaska Power and Telephone.

Charles was the U.S. representative on CIGRE 13-06 Working Group onhigh-voltage circuit breakers, chair of the IAS Power Systems Reliability Sub-committee, and the first chair of the working group responsible for the IEEEStandard 493 the Gold Book. He was elevated to a Fellow of the IEEE in1992 ‘‘for contributions to the field of reliability analysis of I&CPS and foster-ing and developing associated standards.’’ He was a Life Fellow of the IEEE.

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German military, there are relativelyfew military Ph.D. students, and re-search is carried out mainly by civilstudents, all of whom earn their de-grees in three years. Another distinc-tion is that the university is organizedaround a defined campus that in-cludes all required student facilities,including those for living, studying,and shopping.

Gerling pointed out that, in spiteof the military sponsorship, the con-tent of the lessons and the researchissues are left to the discretion of thefaculty, who are themselves not mem-bers of the military. So while militaryresearch projects are pursued at the

university, there are also many proj-ects with industrial partners.

The meeting then featured a series ofpresentations on topics drawn fromvaried research interests of the university.Dipl.-Ing. Schinnerl spoke aboutan analytic calculation method ofswitched reluctance machines. Dr.-Ing.Guraquk Dajaku discussed the effectsand causes of radial forces in permanentmagnet machines with concentratedwindings and the measures to avoidthem. Dipl.-Ing. Marcin Pyc talkedabout the development and optimiza-tion of a homopolar machine as starteraircraft starter generators. Dipl.-Ing.Klaus Muhlbauer gave a presentation

on switched reluctance machine with anew macromodel approach and com-pared the results with measurements.

Prof. Ralph Kennel, PELS vicepresident meetings, reported on theefforts to meet the demands of univer-sities and industry for more majorconferences in the very active field ofpower electronics. The plan calls forannual major conferences in NorthAmerica, Asia, and Europe. In NorthAmerica, the new IEEE Energy Con-version Congress and Exposition(ECCE) will meet this need. TheInternational Power Electronics Con-ference (IPEMC) will serve the Asiansegment. The plan also calls for merg-ing the European Conference onPower Electronics (EPE) and theEuropean Power Electronics Machinesand Drives Conference (EPE-PEMC)to address the European needs.

The Lighter SideNeeds Your HelpOne of the regular features of IEEEIndustry Applications Magazine is ‘‘Onthe Lighter Side,’’ which has a series ofphotographs that appear on the insideback cover or the last page of eachissue along with what we hope is ahumorous caption. Usually, these pho-tographs are historical in nature, butthis is not an absolute requirement.

The backfile of unpublished photo-graphs has been depleted, and we areactively searching for photographs thatcan be used in ‘‘On the Lighter Side’’series. If you have access to appropriatepictures that are available for publica-tion, please contact the editor. IAS

IN MEMORIAM: WALTER C. HUENING

Walter C. Huening received his B.S.E.E. degree from Tufts University in1944. After two years in the U.S. Navy and two years on the faculty at

Tufts, he started his 41-year career with GE Company in Lynn, Massachu-setts. His career was varied and included stints in facility engineering,product planning, and steel mill systems before concluding with anextended assignment in Industrial Power Systems Engineering in Schenec-tady, New York. He was a registered Professional Engineer in New Yorkand Ohio and a member of Tau Beta Pi.

Walt Huening was one of the leaders to standardize short-circuit calcula-tion procedures that began in the late 1960s. He was the U.S. advisor to theInternational Electrotechnical Commission Technical Committee on short-circuit calculations from 1972 to 1989. In IAS, he was active in the Power Sys-tem Engineering Committee, where he was the first chair of the workinggroup that produced the Violet Book, IEEE Standard 551-2006. He waselected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1981 ‘‘for contributions to the standardizationof short-circuit current calculation practices in the industrial power field.’’ In1988, he was the first recipient of the Richard Harold Kaufman TechnicalField Award ‘‘for contributions to the standardization of short-circuit currentcalculation practices.’’ He was a Life Fellow of the IEEE.

Members of the IEEE Joint IAS/PELS/IES German Chapter meeting in Munich.

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