Established: in 2007
Description: To recognize the best paper published in the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. 

Administration: Administered by the IES’ Awards and Honor Committee. 
Eligibility: Author(s) of papers published in the Magazine 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. 
Award Committee: Editorial board of the IE Magazine serves as the Award Committee, chaired by the IE Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief.
Nominee Solicitation: The IES A&H Committee calls for nominations from Chairs/Co-Chairs and/or Technical Program Chairs of the society's major conferences. 
Basis for Judging: For the tutorial service provided to IES membership, industrial interest, reference value and capability of expressing theoretical content in layman language terms with effective illustrations, tables and graphs. 
Presentation: At the Society's major international conference.

Award Recipients

2008 - Ramu Krishnan, An Energy-Efficiency-Enhanced Switched Reluctance Motor, IE Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp 4-6.
2009 - Leopoldo G. Franquelo, Jose Rodriguez, Jose I. Leon, Samir Kouro, Ramon Portillo, and Maria A. M. Prats, The Age of Multilevel Converters Arrives,IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2008, pp 28-39.
2010 - Bogdan Maciej Wilamowski, Citation: For the paper titled, “Neural Network Architectures and Learning Algorithms, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, pp.56-63, Vol.3, No.4, Dec. 2009.”