IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - September 2021 - 8
President's Message
by Liuchen Chang
IEEE PELS Continues on a Path
Envisioned by Our Late Past
President Braham Ferreira
E
arly in the summer, our power
electronics community was
deeply saddened by the sudden
passing on 16 May, 2 021 of Prof.
Jan Abraham (Braham) Ferreira,
past president of IEEE Power Electronics
Society (PELS) (2015-16),
after his courageous and brief battle
with cancer. A leader, educator,
mentor, and friend to so many in our
community, Braham was a true gentleman
of great accomplishments,
and inspired us all through his
boundless energy, curiosity and lifelong
commitment to engineering
(Figure 1). Braham made tremendous
contributions through his
three decades of volunteering services
and leadership to our Society,
including PELS Strategic Plans,
Empower a Billion Lives (EBL),
and IEEE Southern Power Electronics
Conference (SPEC), to
name a few. Braham received the
IEEE PELS Harry A. Owen Jr. Distinguished
Service Award 2021 at a
virtual award ceremony in early
May when many PELS colleagues
and his family congratulated Braham
for his achievements.
Several PELS members and chapters
have been recognized for their
contributions in technical excellence,
volunteering service and leadership,
and received PELS 2021 awards. Congratulations!
Your continuing efforts
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Date of current version: 13 September 2021
FIG 2 PELS Day celebration and young professional forum at Xian Jiaotong University,
China, in June, 2021.
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To
commemorate the formation of
FIG 1 Braham Ferreira at IEEE ECCE
2016 Conference.
and accomplishments have propelled
the innovations of the power electronic
field and the growth of our Society.
For a complete list of awardees,
please visit https://www.ieee-pels.org/
our Society on 20 June, 1987, the annual
PELS Day (20 June) celebrations
occurred in the month of June 2021.
Over 60 PELS chapters and committees
organized more than 120 events
in June all over the world (Figure 2),
setting a new activity record for PELS
Day Celebrations! Concurrently, PELS
Day Organizing Committee hosted
a seminar on 20 June, when Dr. Fred
Lee, founder and director emeritus
of CPES, Virginia Tech, talked about
the history of PELS as well as the
evolution of power electronics, and
Dr. Noriko Kawakami, senior Fellow
at Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial
Systems Corporation, Tokyo, Japan,
presented the advances of power
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