{"260201":{"#nid":"260201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tom Habetler Elected to IEEE-USA Board of Directors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThomas G. Habetler has been elected to a two-year term on the IEEE-USA Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2014. The Board is the governing body for IEEE and has fiduciary responsibility for all of its assets.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHabetler has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech since 1989.\u0026nbsp;His research interests are in protection and condition monitoring of electric machines and building electrical systems, power electronics, and drives.\u0026nbsp;He has published over 300 technical papers in the field.\u0026nbsp;He is also a regular consultant to industry in the field of condition-based diagnostics for electrical systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHabetler has been involved in many different aspects of IEEE, including service on various committees and boards for IEEE-USA, terms as chair and secretary of the Atlanta chapter of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), and a wide range of technical conference leadership roles, including most recently the 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHabetler received the 2012 IEEE-PELS Harry A. Owen Distinguished Service Award, and the 2012 Gerald B. Kliman Innovator Award from the IEEE Industry Applications Society.\u0026nbsp;He was the inaugural recipient of the IEEE-PELS \u201cDiagnostics Achievement Award\u201d and is a Fellow of IEEE.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor Thomas G. Habetler has been elected to the IEEE-USA Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2014.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor Thomas G. Habetler has been elected to the IEEE-USA Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2014."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2013-12-10 18:39:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:33","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","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.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ieeeusa.org\/","title":"http:\/\/www.ieeeusa.org\/"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=41","title":"Thomas G. Habetler"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"81891","name":"IEEE-USA"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"81881","name":"Thomas G. Habetler"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"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","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}