awards Vahid Madani PES Fellows congratulations to the class of 2015 T The Ieee Fellow AwArd Is A special recognition for Members with extraordinary accomplishments in the Ieee technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total highergrade membership. The Class of 2015 Ming Cheng Luis Marti For contributions to the development and control of stator permanent magnet machines for vehicular propulsion and wind power generation. For contributions to the modeling and simulation of electromagnetic transients. Javier Contreras For contributions to the modeling and forecasting of electricity markets. For contributions to power converters for grid-connected applications and power management. Stephen McArthur As chair of the Ieee Power & energy society (Pes) Fellows Committee, I congratulate the following outstanding Pes members for their accomplishments. Francisco De Leon Vivek Agarwal Edward Dobrowolski For leadership in ship-board electric power systems. For contributions to topologies and control schemes for solar photovoltaic energy conversion and power quality enhancement. For leadership in interactive control center technology. Shengwei Mei Babak Fahimi For contributions to power systems robust control and complexity analysis. Hector Altuve For contributions to power line and transformer protection. Anastasios Bakirtzis For contributions to the optimization of power systems operation and scheduling. Alberto Borghetti For contributions to the modeling of power distribution systems under transient conditions. Chandan Chakraborty For contributions to estimation techniques and control of induction machine and drive systems. For contributions to transformer modeling for electromagnetic transient studies. For contributions to the modeling and analysis of ac adjustable speed motor drives. Manimaran Govindarasu For contributions to the security of power grids. Gary Hoffman For leadership in the advancement of monitoring systems for power transformers and power line protection. Yi Hu For leadership in wide-area synchronized measurement systems. James Jodice For contributions to the testing of protective relays. David Lubkeman Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPE.2014.2380571 Date of publication: 24 February 2015 90 Paolo Mattavelli ieee power & energy magazine For contributions to power system distribution systems. For contributions to intelligent systems with application in power engineering. Timothy McCoy Philip Overholt For leadership in the development and deployment of synchrophasor technology. Rasheek Rifaat For contributions to the protection of industrial power systems. Surya Santoso For contributions in the automated root cause analysis of electric power quality disturbance phenomena. Jian Sun For contributions to the modeling and control of power electronic circuits and systems. Vaithianathan Venkatasubramanian For contributions to the online detection of oscillatory behavior of electric power systems. p&e march/april 2015