ies celebrates its 60th anniversary [message from the president]
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Message from the President
by Leopoldo Garcı́a Franquelo
IES Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary
The IEEE Industrial Electronics
Society (IES) celebrates its 60th
anniversary this year. As this is
an important milestone for the Soci-
ety, it is time to review how the Soci-
ety and technologies have evolved
over the last 60 years. With this in
mind, several well-known authors
have prepared review articles for the
next special issue of the magazine. I
hope you enjoy reading them since
they are a deep review of what is state
of the art of the main technologies in
the IES’s field of interest.
An anniversary like this is also a
time to think about our future. The 20
technical committees that manage
the IES technical activities have the
important task of reviewing and de-
fining their upcoming activities to
make the IES’s future even brighter.
Recently, the IES held an Officers
Meeting in Madrid with the aim of
defining the main activities of the IES,
such as upcoming conferences, publi-
cations, membership, and technical
activities. The adaptation of our con-
stitution and Bylaws to new IEEE
policy was discussed. At this meet-
ing, IES participation on new joint
publications with other IEEE Soci-
eties was reported, in particular IEEE
Transactions on Sustainable Energies,
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, and
Journal of Photovoltaic
Systems. Cooperation with
Societies that have simi-
lar technical interests
were reviewed. The sis-
ter Societies’ (IEEE Power
& Energy, IEEE Industry
Applications, and IEEE
Power Electronics) new agreement
for cooperation was discussed in
particular. Finally, we talked about
the main topics that are to be
addressed at the up-
coming Administrative
Committee meeting in
Gdansk, Poland.
In conclusion, I’d like
to remember the vic-
tims of the recent earth-
quake in Japan. We wish
them the best and send our support to
the Japanese people and especially to
our colleagues.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIE.2011.941126
Date of publication: 17 June 2011
AN ANNIVERSARYLIKE THIS IS ALSOA TIME TO THINKABOUT OURFUTURE.
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