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CHICAGO – April 1, 2008 – Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society for electrical and computer engineering, last month awarded Stanley H. Horowitz the Vladimir Karapetoff Award, its most prestigious award for career contributions to the field of electrical engineering. Mr. Horowitz accepted the award at an Eta Kappa Nu luncheon in Philadelphia amongst his friends and family. Dr. Arun Phadke shared in this award and was also honored at the luncheon.
"Mr. Horowitz is clearly a leader of innovation in the field of electrical engineering. His technical contributions to the field of power system monitoring, protection and control merit this prestigious recognition and we are delighted to be able to present him with the Vladimir Karapetoff Award," commented Dr. Bruce Eisenstein, vice president of Eta Kappa Nu.
Horowitz began his career in 1950 at the American Electric Power Service Corp. (formerly American Gas and Electric) and retired in 1989, having served as head of the system protection section, assistant head of the electrical engineering division and as a consulting electrical engineer.
A life fellow of the IEEE, Horowitz served as chairman of the IEEE Power and Engineering Society's (PES) Power System Relaying Committee from 1975 to 1978; was a member of the PES executive board, the Life Member Committee, the PES Fellows Committee and was chairman of the PES Constitution and Bylaws Committee. He earned the PSRC Distinguished Service Award, a prize paper award, for "An Ultrafast Sensor for a Fault Current limiting Device" and received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
Horowitz also chaired the Study Committee 34-Protection and Control of the International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric Systems (CIGRE) from 1980 to1986. In 1997, he was awarded the CIGRE Attwood Associates Award for notable contributions to CIGRE and a prize paper award for "Torsional Oscillations and Fatigue of Steam Turbine-Generator Shafts caused by System Disturbances and Switching Events."
Horowitz co-authored the textbook, Power System Protection, edited the IEEE Press book, Protective Relaying for Power Systems, volume I and II, and wrote more than two dozen technical papers. He served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Power Engineering Society magazine Computer Applications in Power from 1996 to 2002.
He lectured at Columbia University Graduate School and was a guest lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Marquette University, Auburn University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lund University and Grenoble University. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Horowitz graduated from the City College of New York in 1949. He attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Graduate School from 1957 to 1958, the General Electric Power System Engineering Course in 1957, Westinghouse Atomic Power Division Nuclear Course in 1961 and University of Michigan's Graduate School of Business in 1964. He currently resides in Columbus, Ohio with his wife Sylvia and their two children.
For more information, visit www.hkn.org or contact Lisa Reyes at +1-312-559-3325 or at lreyes@hkn.org.
Vladimir Karapetoff Award
This major HKN recognition for career accomplishment dates from 1922, when the board of governors established the award in honor of Vladimir Karapetoff, an IEEE fellow and a prominent member of Eta Kappa Nu. Since 1992, this major recognition of career accomplishments has been presented to a practitioner of electrical or computer engineering who has distinguished himself/herself through an invention, development or discovery in the field of electrical or computer technology. To nominate an individual for this award, contact Kathy Ricker, HKN administrative director, at kathy@hkn.org.
Eta Kappa Nu (HKN)
Eta Kappa Nu is the 104-year-old honor society for electrical and computer engineering students and professionals. Eta Kappa Nu has more than 250,000 members from 200 university chapters and recognizes excellence in academic accomplishments, leadership, outstanding character and service. The International Engineering Consortium manages the headquarters function of Eta Kappa Nu. For more information, please visit www.hkn.org.