IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Career Excellence Award | IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society

To recognize a career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contribution by an individual in the field of instrumentation and measurement.

Prize:

$5,000, Plaque, and travel allowance of up to $1,000 is granted on a need basis for the recipient to attend the awards ceremony.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

Presentation:

Awarded annually at the discretion of the I&M Society Awards Committee at the following year’s I2MTC awards ceremony.

Basis for Judging:

Recognizes a lifetime career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contributions by an individual in the field of instrumentation and measurement. The nomination must clearly indicate the achievements that define the excellence of the candidate and must reference/provide relevant documentation that is in/or not in/ the public domain. At least 2, but no more than 4 endorsements, must be provided by individuals with close knowledge of a candidate’s activities that led to the achievements cited.

Eligibility:

Must be a member of IEEE and the Instrumentation and Measurement Society at the time of nomination and presentation. Voting members of the Society Standing Awards Committee are not eligible. Nominees must exhibit actions that reflect positively on and enhance the reputation of the I&M Society. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulations established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4. on Awards Limitations (https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/ieee-policies.pdf). Previous award winners are not eligible.

Nomination Details:

Nomination Deadline: 15 August

Note Regarding Endorsements: In addition to the Nominator’s letter, at least one, but no more than three support letters may be submitted.

Nomination Form:

Nominate for this Award

Recipients

2023

Alessandro Ferrero

Biography

Alessandro Ferrero (M’88–SM’96–F’99) was born in Milan, Italy, in 1954. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1978. In 1983, he joined the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Politecnico di Milano, as an Assistant Professor of electrical measurements. From 1987 to 1991, he was with the University of Catania, Italy, as an Associate Professor of measurements on electrical machines and systems. From 1991 to 1994, he was with the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Politecnico di Milano, as an Associate Professor of electrical measurements, where he has been a Full Professor since 1994.

His current research interests include uncertainty evaluation, the application of digital methods to electrical measurements and measurements on electric power systems under nonsinusoidal conditions.

Prof. Ferrero has chaired the Italian Association for Electrical and Electronic Measurements for the three-year term 2004–2007 and he has been the President of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurements Society for the 2008 – 2009 term. He is the recipient of the 2006 Joseph F. Keithley IEEE Field Award for Instrumentation and Measurement.
As an AE for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement he covers the areas of Digital Signal Processing and Measurement on Power Systems. IEEE I&M Society President 2008-2009; TIM Associate Editor|| Fellows Evaluation Chair (2017)|| Associate Editor-in-Chief, TIM (2017)|| I&M AdCom (2017)|| Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2012-2016)|| I&M Magazine Editorial Board (2014, 2015, 2016)|| VP Publications (2007)

Affiliation(s)

Designated Editor for OJIM Conflict-of-Interest Papers

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

For his exceptional career achievements in the Instrumentation and Measurement field and his outstanding leadership and mentorship qualities.

2021

Emil Petriu

Biography

Emil M. Petriu, P.Eng. F'IEEE, F'CAE, F'EIC is a Professor and University Research Chair in the School of Information Technology (SITE), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
He received his Dr. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara, Romania, in 1978. In 1979, he held a UNESCO postdoctoral scholarship in the Department of Applied Physics at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
Since 1985, Dr. Petriu has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and then SITE, University of Ottawa, and has served as Chairman of the former from 1995 to 1997 and as Director of SITE from 1998 to 2001.
On half year sabbatical leaves, he was visiting researcher at the Canadian Space Agency (1992), visiting professor at the Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan (1994), visiting researcher at the Communications Research Centre, Ottawa (2002), visiting professor at the Institute of Electrical Measurement and Measurement Signal Processing, Graz University of Technology, Austria (2003), and visiting researcher at the Larus Technologies, Ottawa (2006),
Dr. Petriu has published 90 refereed journal papers, 10 book chapters, 220 papers in refereed conference proceedings, authored two books, edited two books, and received two patents.
He has supervised 72 graduate students (25 PhD, 47 Master’s), 5 post-doctoral fellows and 18 research engineers.
Dr. Petriu served as a member of the Administrative Committee (1996-2005) and Vice-President (2000-2002) of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. He served as Chair of the IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award Committee (2007-present) and member of the IEEE Technical Field Awards Council(2007-present). He is serving as Chair of theTC-15 on Virtual Systems In Measurements,Co-Chair of theTC-30 Security and Contraband Detection of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society,and Chair of the Virtual Reality Task Force of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee of theIEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
He has been actively involved in the organization of many international conferences, symposia and workshops. He was General Chair of the IMTC/2005 - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2005, in Ottawa, ON, Canada and VECIMS 2008 - IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, July 2008, in Istanbul, Turkey, and Honorary Chair of VECIMS 2009, May 2009, in Hong Kong, China. He served as Program Chair of the IMTC/97 - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 1997, in Ottawa, ON, Canada, IMTC/98 in St. Paul, MN, USA, IMTC/2002 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, IMS 2005 - IEEE International Workshop on Measurement Systems for Homeland Security, Contraband Detection and Personal Safety, March 2005, in Orlando, FL, USA, IMS 2006 in Alexandria, VA, USA, VECIMS 2007 - IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, June 2007, in Ostuni, Italy, I2MTC/2008 - IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2008, in Victoria, BC, Canada, and CIVE 2009 - IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments, March 2009, in Nashville, TN, USA.
In recognition of his contributions to the engineering profession, in 2000, he was elected Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC), and in 2001, he was inducted as Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) "for contributions to the development of pseudorandom encoding techniques for absolute position measurement." He received the 2003 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award "for contributions to imaging processing systems, robotics, virtual reality and applications of artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic and neural networks." He was a co-recipient of the 2003 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the unique paper award presented by IEEE in that year.
TC-15 Chair

Affiliation(s)

Univerisity of Ottawa

For a career dedicated to academic research, engineering education, industry R&D, training and mentorship in the field of intelligent sensors, and for outstanding and continuous service to I&M society’s conferences, journal, technical committees, and Administrative Committee.

2020

Reza Zoughi

Biography

R. Zoughi received his B.S.E.E, M.S.E.E, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (radar remote sensing, radar systems, and microwaves) from the University of Kansas where from 1981 until 1987 he was at the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL). He is the Kirby Gray (Battelle) Chair in Engineering and a Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) at Iowa State University (ISU). He is also the Director of Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) at ISU. He served as the Schlumberger Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) from January 2001 to August 2019. Prior to joining Missouri S&T and since 1987 he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Colorado State University (CSU). He is the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award, the 2009 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Research Award for Sustained Excellence, the 2011 IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement and the 2020 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Career Excellence Award. In 2013 and 2020 he and his co-authors received the H. A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). He is also the recipient of the 2023 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture Award. He has twenty issued US patents to his credit (in addition to several issued abroad). He has served the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE in various capacities.

Affiliation(s)

Iowa State University

United States

For lifelong activity and outstanding achievement in pioneering microwave nondestructive testing and evaluation; and for serving the I&M Society in many roles in the past as, among others, President of the Society and EIC of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

2019

No Award Given

2018

Kang Lee

For serving the profession technically through his research on Clock Synchronization and leading standardization efforts to disseminate the knowledge; and for serving the I&M society through organizing and co-chairing conferences and through his work on TC-9.

2017

Pasquale Daponte

For a lifelong career and outstanding leadership in research and education on instrumentation and measurement, and a passionate and continuous service, international in scope, to the profession.

2016

Stuart Nelson

For pioneering research in the measurement and study of wide-frequency-range dielectric properties of agricultural materials, for exploring their engineering and scientific applications, and for documenting these properties and findings in reference publications.

2015

Jerry Blair

For significant contributions in instrumentation & measurement for underground nuclear testing, which helped the USA win the Cold War, and for monumental technical and administrative contributions to IEEE standards on waveform recorders, analog-to-digital.

2014

Steve Sparks

For half a century of leadership, advancing state-of-the-art test and measurement instruments.

2013

Massimo D'Apuzzo

Biography

Massimo D’Apuzzo has been Full Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements since 1986. He is currently affiliated with the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

Massimo D’Apuzzo carried out a proficuous and intense scientific activity in the area of Instrumentation and Measurement. He has headed research groups involved in the research activities in the field of general metrology, as well as in the definition, design and experimental validation of innovative methodologies for the characterization and performance assessment of dynamic systems, analog-to-digital converters and transducers. His most innovative and influencing scientific contributions are referred to three themes: (i) use of microprocessor for measurements on electrical systems, (ii) automatic instrument fault detection and isolation and (iii) power measurement on wireless communication systems.

Massimo D’Apuzzo has been academic tutor and scientific mentor of several PhD fellows and collaborators, most of whom are now leading academics of Electrical and Electronic Measurements in prestigious Italian universities or occupy managing positions in industrial companies. He has founded and is Director of the Center for Advanced Metrology Services of the University of Naples Federico II.

He was President of the Italian Group of Electrical an Electronic Measurements, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, member of the Academic Senate and President of the Scientific and Technological School of the same University.

Affiliation(s)

University of Naples "Federico II"

Italy

For lifelong activity and outstanding achievement in pioneering the use of microcontrollers in electrical measurements.

2012

Solomon Max

For pioneering automatic test equipment design, CODEC & DSP test methodology and monumental improvements in signal generation and digitization hardware & calibration.

2011

Mario Savino

For decades of advancements in measurement science and its dissemination.

2010

Asad M. Madni

Biography

Dr. Asad M. Madni served as President, Chief Operating Officer & CTO of BEI Technologies Inc. headquartered in Sylmar, California, from 1992 until his retirement in 2006. He led the development and commercialization of intelligent micro-sensors and systems for aerospace, military, commercial and transportation industries, including the Extremely Slow Motion Servo Control System for Hubble Space Telescope’s Star Selector System and the revolutionary Quartz MEMS GyroChip technology which is used worldwide for Electronic Stability Control and Rollover Protection in passenger vehicles, thereby saving millions of lives every year.

Prior to joining BEI he was with Systron Donner Corporation (a Thorn/EMI Company) for 18 years in senior technical & executive positions, eventually as Chairman, President & CEO. Here he made seminal and pioneering contributions in the development of RF & Microwave Systems and Instrumentation which significantly enhanced the Combat Readiness of the US Navy
(and its allies) and which provided the DOD the ability (not possible with prior art) to simulate more threat representative ECM environments for current and future advanced warfare training. Dr. Madni is currently the Executive Managing Director & Chief Technical Officer of Crocker Capital, a San Francisco based private venture firm specializing in emerging technologies.

He received the A.A.S. degree from RCA Institutes, B.S. & M.S. degrees from University of California Los Angeles, the Ph.D degree from California Coast University and the DSc. Degree (Honoris Causa) from Ryerson University. He is also a graduate of the Engineering Management Program at the California Institute of Technology, the Executive Institute at Stanford University and the Program for Senior Executives at MIT Sloan School of Management. Dr. Madni is an internationally recognized authority with over 37 years of experience in "intelligent" sensors and system design and signal processing. He is credited with over 150 refereed publications in archival journals, conference proceedings and book chapters; over 100 research reports and internal publications; over 100 keynote addresses, invited lectures, chairs and panels; and 67 issued or pending patents resulting in numerous "industry firsts".

Dr. Madni has served as a director on the board of six highly successful technology companies and on the advisory boards of several professional and academic organizations. He is currently serving as Corporate Board Member and “Distinguished College Professor” at TCI College of Technology (the first such appointment in the history of the Institute since its founding in 1909 by Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi), Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University; and on advisory boards at UCLA, USC, CSUN, TCI College of Technology, IEEE Systems Journal, AutoSoft Journal, and as Honorary Editor of the International Journal on Smart Sensing & Intelligent Systems.

Dr. Madni is also the recipient of numerous national and international awards and honors including, the 2010 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society's Career Excellence Award, the 2010 UCLA Engineering Lifetime Contribution Award, the Marconi Medal from TCI College of Technology (the Institute’s highest honor), 2008 IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award, 2008 IEEE Region 6 South Outstanding Engineer and Outstanding Leadership & Professional Service Awards, the 2006 World Automation Congress Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2005 IEE Achievement Medal, the 2004 UCLA Engineering Alumnus of the Year Award (highest honor granted by the School), the 2004 Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award from the Engineers’ Council, the 2003 George Washington Engineer of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Council of Engineers & Scientists, the 2002 UCLA Professional Achievement Award Medal, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, Joseph F. Engelberger Best Paper Award at the 2000 World Automation Congress, California Coast University Distinguished Alumni Award (highest honor granted by the University), Association of Old Crows Gold Certificate of Merit, and is listed in all major Who’s Who publications including Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Technology, and Who's Who in Finance and Industry. He has also been a featured guest on numerous television shows including CNN with Casey Wyan and BizNews 1 (now CNBC) with Mike Russell. In 2011 Dr. Madni was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to development and commercialization of sensors and systems for aerospace and automotive safety".

He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (UK), Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering, Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Lifetime Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, and Life Fellow of the International Biographical Association. He is also an Eminent Engineer of Tau Beta Pi, The National Engineering Honor Society; Honorary Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines; Member of Eta Kappa Nu, The Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society; Member of Tau Alpha Pi, The National Engineering Technology Honor Society; Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society; Member of Delta Epsilon Tau, International Honor Society; Life Member of the Association of Old Crows; Member of the Internet Society and Member of the Order of the Engineer.

Affiliation(s)

BEI Technologies, Inc.

United States

For an extraordinary career of enlightened leadership in and pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of intelligent sensors, systems and instrumentation.

2009

Stephen A. Dyer

Biography

Stephen A. Dyer holds the B.S. in physics, the M.S. in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. in engineering, all from Kansas State University, Manhattan. He has spent most of his career in academics, receiving his first faculty appointment at the age of 23, and has held faculty positions in physics, mathematics, and electrical and computer engineering. In addition, he has taught courses in entrepreneurship, as well as segments of courses in physical chemistry, flight dynamics, anatomy and physiology, and creative problem-solving. Having had appointments at five different institutions, Steve currently serves at Kansas State, where he was promoted to full professor in 1989.

His research has spanned a number of areas, notably instrumentation and measurement, spectrometry, digital signal processing, and communication theory. His contributions to stationary-mask Hadamard-transform multiplex spectrometry—in particular, the design and development of spectrum-recovery methods and fast algorithms to improve performance at low signal-to-noise ratios—were cited in his elevation, in 1997, to IEEE Fellow. In all, Dyer has more than 125 technical publications, including his edited book, Survey of Instrumentation and Measurement (Wiley, 2001).

Dr. Dyer has had connection, as well, with industry and the public. Before he started in academics, he worked in engineering positions, writing software and designing semi-automatic test equipment. For the past 30 years, he has acted as a consultant for about 40 companies and institutions, doing analysis, product-design, or forensic work in various areas, including instrument design, signal processing, electromagnetics, and optics.

Steve has also helped make students aware of IEEE through his on-campus service, having served as IEEE Student Branch Counselor at the University of Kentucky and at K-State. He was also the co-founding faculty advisor for the IEEE EMBS Chapter at K-State.
Dyer has been active in the I&M Society since the 1980s, and has been on the AdCom continuously since the beginning of 1992, serving the Society in various capacities, including Past President in 2006-2007 and 2000-2001.

Affiliation(s)

Kansas State University

United States

For a career dedicated to education in science and engineering; for research contributions in instrumentation and Hadamard-transform spectrometry; and for outstanding contributions to the I&M Society, including service as Editor-in-Chief of Transactions.

2008

Luigino Benetazzo

Biography

Prof. Luigino Benetazzo has been tasked with technical and scientific as well as management activities, in the academic world, industrial companies, public and governmental agencies.

He is the author of several university textbooks concerning Electronic Measurements, of more than 130 scientific papers and of the item concerning "Radio-electric Measurements" in the Encyclopaedia of Engineering edit by ISEDI Mondadori (Italy) translated in several languages and distributed world wide.

He received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering (cum laude, approximately equivalent to M.E.E. honours) from Padova University, Padova, Italy, then he has been with the Faculty of Engineering, Padova University as full Professor since 1976. He also has been in charge of several strategic management tasks concerning the University of Padova (UPD):

Deputy of the Rector for distance learning since 1996.
member of the Board of Directors of the Nettuno Society for distance learning services as the UPD representative. Nettuno covers Italy as well as 10 countries of the Mediterranean area.

He is a Member of IEEE I&M Society and former President of the Italian research group in Electric and Electronic Measurements (GMEE).

His orientation to engineering achievement allowed Prof. Luigino Benetazzo to successfully undertake management and auditing activities in national and international settings.

President (1992–1997) of CSELT (now Telecom Italia Lab) the telecommunications research laboratory of Telecom Italia, in Turin, involved in national and international research programs on advanced telecommunication services, in cooperation with leading research centres on telecommunications all over the world.
President (1987-1992) of NECSY (Network Control Systems), a company which designed and manufactured products for the telecommunications market in a joint-venture with the Hewlett-Packard.
Member of the Central Office for Legal Metrology of the Italian Government.
President of several Commissions for final reviews of projects granted by the Department for Economic Development of the Italian Government

The most valuable heritage that Prof. Luigino Benetazzo will be leaving to the next generation of measurement scientists, his pupils and now young colleagues, is a well-structured research group in the measurement field operating at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, whose researchers have become regular contributors to the annual IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technolgy Conference and authors of papers appearing in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and other publications of the I&M Society.

Affiliation(s)

University of Padova

For a career of activities in academia, government, and industry devoted to the instrumentation and measurement field and its propagation.

2007

Milton G. Slade

For a lifelong career in automated test and measurement and over 15 years of volunteer service to the Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

2006

J. Barry Oakes

For outstanding contributions to the I&M Society, including two decades of service as a member of the Administrative Committee, two terms as Society President, and holding most of the Society offices; for service to the IEEE as a member of the IEEE Board.

2005

Harold S. Goldberg

For outstanding contributions to the Society and the IEEE as President of the I&M Society, Treasurer of TAB and numerous services to Society management, education and conferences.

2004

Stephen F. Adam

For a professional career of more than 50 years and for extensive work in the field of microwave measurement and instrumentation.

2003

Douglas Strain

For a professional career of more than 50 years as a founder of Electro Scientific Industries and the leadership in defining and developing instrumentation systems, particularly for automatic test and calibration.