{"158701":{"#nid":"158701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tom Habetler Wins Two Top IEEE Honors at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThomas G. Habetler recently won two top IEEE honors\u2013the IEEE Power Electronics Society Harry A. Owen Distinguished Service Award and the IEEE Industry Applications Society Gerald B. Kliman Innovator Award. Dr. Habetler was presented with both of these awards at the 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo, held September 15-20 in Raleigh, N.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech since 1989, Dr. Habetler has been an active IEEE volunteer for more than 20 years with both the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). \u0026nbsp;He has served as an IEEE-PELS officer at the local Atlanta chapter level and advanced to top IEEE-PELS administrative officer roles as president, vice president, and secretary for the Society as a whole. He has also served as chair of major IEEE-PELS committees, including his current role as chair of the strategic planning committee With IEEE-IAS, Dr. Habetler has served as the chair of one of its technical committees and has won several IEEE-IAS best paper awards. He has also been involved as general chair and technical program chair for several IEEE-PELS and IAS conferences and workshops.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter being elected to the IEEE Board as Division II Director, Dr. Habetler became more involved with other areas of the Institute. He has served as IEEE member recruitment chair, a technical area representative on the Member and Geographic Activities Board, and is currently serving on the IEEE-USA Board of Directors.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor Thomas G. Habetler won two IEEE awards at the 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo, held September 15-20 in Raleigh, N.C.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor Thomas G. Habetler won two IEEE awards at the 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2012-10-02 17:11:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:54","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57091":{"id":"57091","type":"image","title":"Tom Habetler","body":null,"created":"1449175653","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:33","changed":"1475894503","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:43","alt":"Tom Habetler","file":{"fid":"190548","name":"tqj93037.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqj93037_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqj93037_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":49922,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tqj93037_0.jpg?itok=M90VJPbv"}}},"media_ids":["57091"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=41","title":"Thomas G. Habetler"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/","title":"IEEE Power Electronics Society"},{"url":"http:\/\/ias.ieee.org\/","title":"IEEE Industry Applications Society"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"45321","name":"Thomas G Habetler"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}