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drives for motorized vehicles
-(locomotives and cars), with the first
detailed digital simulations of a cycloconverter, and the first-ever motor
with rare-earth magnets in an automobile, a cranking motor.
Jacovides was the engineering
leader for the Electrovair project, General Motors' first modern foray in
-electric -vehicles, placing him at the
earliest stages of modern drivetrain
electrification, years before the betterknown EV1, its eventual successor. He
led the development of high-efficiency
alternator and electric power steering
and had the vision to champion the
design of safety critical systems, with
particular application to electronic
throttle control. These techniques
have become the basis for international standards for the design of
safety systems and validation. This

Figure 1. Linos Jacovides has spent his
career promoting the practical use of electric
technology for transportation.

technology has been a key enabler for
electric power steering and is one of
the foundations for drive-by-wire systems. His involvement reaches to

traction control -systems, magnetorheological fluid-activated shock
absorbers, numerous sensors and
electromecahnical components, and a
best-in-class diesel fuel injector.
Jacovides was elected to the
National Academy of Engineerng in
2010, and he is a Fellow of both the
IEEE and the Society of Automotive
Engineers. He retired as director of
Delphi Research Labs and has served
on six U.S. National Academies Committees for which he has written the
chapters on electric and hybrid vehicles. He was president of the IEEE
Industry Applications Society in 1990.

-Bruno Lequesne
Eaton Corporation and Past President,
IEEE-IAS

IEEE Power and Energy Society's
Upcoming Elections
n August 2013, the voting membership of the
IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) once again opened up the
election -process for the Society's
future leadership. There are many
accomplished candidates that will be
involved in the election. The first race
is for the position of president-elect
of the PES. Bruno Meyer, chief executive officer of ARTERIA-a telecom
subsidiary of RTE (the French transmission system operator)-and
Damir Novosel, the president of
Quanta Technology, are in the running. Novosel is also an adjunct

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professor at North Carolina State
University. The position of secretary
is open, and two very capable candidates are running: Mini Shaji Thomas, who is a professor and -former
head of the Department of Electrical
Engineering at Jamia Millia University, New Delhi, India, and Lina Bertling
Tjernberg, who is a professor in
power grid technologies with the
Royal Institute of Technology,
-Sweden. The final available position
is that of treasurer. Both candidates
have had long and illustrious careers.
Jovica Milanovic has worked in Yugoslavia and Australia and is currently
a professor of electrical power engineering and the director of external
affairs at the University of Manchester,

United Kingdom. Our next candidate
is Christopher Root, who recently
retired as senior vice president of
network strategy for National Grid
and has had a career split between
power system engineering and
-operations.
Once again, the caliber of candidates for all of the open positions is
remarkable, and the Society will
benefit from the candidates' expertise and contributions for years to
come. We wish all of the candidates
the best of luck in the upcoming
elections.
-Maureen L. Dalton
IEEE PES-Senior Manager of Marketing,
-Communications, and Membership

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