Technical Director Kawakami of TMEIC receives award from IEEE for power electronics technology, first Japanese to do so
Award ceremony held in Detroit, USA in October 2022
(Source: TMEIC)
McMurray Award Plaque
(Source: TMEIC)
Toshiba Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Systems Co., Ltd. (TMEIC), a major power conditioner (PCS) manufacturer for photovoltaic power generation, announced on November 14 that Noriko Kawakami, Chief Engineer of the company's Power Electronics Systems Division, received an award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Announced.
IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is a world-class academic research organization (society) and technical standardization organization for electrical engineering and electronic engineering technology headquartered in the United States. members belong to.
This time, the award was the McMurray Award, which recognizes engineers working in the power electronics field for achievements that have had an impact on industry. He is the first Japanese engineer to receive the award.
The achievements of Noriko Kawakami, technical director, were evaluated for the application of power electronics to converters for power systems such as self-excited HVDC (direct current transmission) and for industrial fields such as storage battery systems. In January 2018, she was awarded the title of Fellow by the IEEE for the first time as a woman in the field of heavy electric machinery in Japan.
The technical director belongs to TMEIC's Power Electronics Systems Division and has been involved in the development of large-capacity power converters. Specifically, in addition to DC/AC converters and voltage stabilizers used as operation equipment for large-scale power grids such as long-distance power transmission, storage battery systems for effective use of solar and wind power generation. He has been involved in converters, converters for fuel cells, and so on.
