Established: in 1997 as Transactions Paper Award
Description: To recognize the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 

Administration: Administered by The Industrial Electronics Society Awards and Honor Committee (IES A&H Committee). 
Eligibility: Author(s) of papers published in the Transactions during the year specified for the award. 
Prize: $2,000 and Certificate(s). Multiple authors will divide the prize. 
Funding: Funded by IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. 
Nominee Solicitation: The IES A&H Committee asks for nominations from The Editor-in-Chief of the IES Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 
Basis for Judging: The prize paper will be selected by the IE Transactions Editorial Board on the basis of the value of the contribution, subject matter, originality, and composition. 
Presentation: At the Society's major international conference.

Award Recipients

1998 - Jong Up Jeon, Toshiro Higuchi
1999 - Hwan Jung Kwanghee Nam, Taiju Suzuki
2000 - Shigenobu Shinohara
2001 - Atsuo Kawamura, Junji Hirai, Tae Woong Kim
2002 - Lennart Harnefors, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Yoichi Hori, Atsuo Kawamura
2003 - Ashwin M. Khambadkone, Joachim Holtz
2004 - 
2005 - 
2006 - 
2007 - Joachim Holtz, Sensorless control of Induction Machines - with or without Signal Injection, TIE, v. 53, n.1, pp 7-30, lFeb 2006
2008 - J. Rodriiquez, J. Pontt, C. Silva, P. Correa, P. Lezana, P. Cortes, U. Ammann, Predictive Current control of a Voltage Source Inverter, TIE, v.54, no. 1, pp 495-503, Feb 2007
2009 - E. Levi, Multiphase Electric Machines for Variable-Speed Applications,IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 55, No.5, May 2008, pp 1893-1909
2010 - Federico Barrero, Manuel R.Arahal, Raul Gregor, Sergio Toral, Mario J. Duran, Citation: For the paper titled, “A Proof of Concept Study of Predictive Current Control for VSI-driven Asymmetrical Dual Three-phase AC Machines, IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, Vol.56, No.6, 2009.”