IEEE Awards Booklet - 2013 - 12

2013 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar
Technologies and Applications

IEEE Medal in Power Engineering
Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications,
Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics, and
Power & Energy Societies

Sponsored by Raytheon Company

Michael C. Wicks

Hermann W. Dommel

For leadership and developments in fully
adaptive radar, advanced space-time
adaptive processing (STAP), knowledgebased signal processing, and waveform
diversity

For pioneering contributions to the
methods of analyzing electromagnetic
transients and optimal power flow in
electric power systems

Michael C. Wicks' pioneering signal processing techniques
changed the face of modern radar engineering, enabling advanced air and space radar systems for intelligence, surveillance,
and reconnaissance important to national security. An innovator of many new radar signal-processing techniques, Dr. Wicks
is most well-known for development of knowledge-based space
time adaptive processing (STAP). STAP improves target detection
in environments where interference such as clutter or jamming
exists. To overcome the limitations of traditional STAP, Dr. Wicks
developed algorithms that can incorporate "prior knowledge"
such as digital terrain maps and real-time and archival data to
improve radar performance. Successfully demonstrated with airborne radar data during the 1990s, this approach has been further
developed by the U.S. government and is finding its way into
numerous real-world radars. Dr. Wicks has also been a driving
force in waveform diversity, which has provided the foundation
for fully adaptive radar. Waveform diversity extends adaptivity to
the transmit signal, where it can be varied depending on the target
and interference environment. He has also investigated problems
in weak signal detection, distributed radar, and detection of targets
that are covered or concealed.
An IEEE Fellow and U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Fellow, Dr. Wicks' many honors include the 2009 IEEE Warren D.
White Award for Excellence in Radar Engineering. Dr. Wicks retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2011 as senior scientist for sensors
signal processing at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome,
N.Y. He is currently a professor and the Ohio Scholar for Sensor
Exploitation and Fusion at the University of Dayton, Ohio.

Hermann W. Dommel's development of landmark computer
methods for analyzing and modeling the effects of electromagnetic transients and optimizing power flow in power systems
has played a critical role in advancing the electric power grid.
His pioneering work during the 1960s set the foundation for
the electromagnetic transients program (EMTP) software that has
become an indispensable tool in the power industry. Electromagnetic transients can occur due to network switching, system faults,
or lightning and can cause power surges detrimental to the electric grid. Dr. Dommel's EMTP technology, which can be found
in well-known commercial software packages today, helps utility companies predict these surges for more reliable and efficient
operation. Dr. Dommel's development, further enhancement,
and support of the technology have earned him recognition as
the "Father of EMTP." Dr. Dommel also developed methods for
optimal power flow with W.F. Tinney in 1968 that were quickly
implemented in power system operations centers for real-time
monitoring and analysis of the power grid. The paper detailing
this work (published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus
and Systems) was voted the fifth-most important paper concerning 20th Century power system analysis. Dr. Dommel's optimal
power flow solutions still play an important role in the efficient
operation of large power systems.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Dommel's many honors include the IEEE
Power & Energy Society's Charles Concordia Power Systems
Engineering Award (2011). Dr. Dommel is a Professor Emeritus
with the University of British Columbia's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Scope: For outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields
of radar technologies and their applications

Scope: For outstanding contributions to the technology associated
with the generation, transmission, distribution, application, and
utilization of electric power for the betterment of society

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