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Farrokh Najmabadi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Director of the Center for Energy Research, was awarded the 2007
IEEE/NPSS Fusion Technology Award "For his outstanding and innovative
technical leadership in the development of fusion energy, for his
contributions to the merging of physics and engineering considerations
into the development of attractive fusion reactor concepts, and for his
many years of service to the fusion energy sciences community." He will
receive the award at the 22nd Symposium on Fusion Engineering to be held
in Albuquerque June 17-21
Prof. Najmabadi is a Senior Member of IEEE and served as a member of the
Fusion Technology Standing Committee, the Nuclear and Plasma Science
Society (NPSS) Administrative Committee, the IEEE Power Engineering
Society Working Group on Advanced Sources of Energy, and the Fusion
Working Group of the Energy Development Subcommittee. In 1997 he was the
General Chair of the 17th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering. He
currently serves as a Distinguished Lecturer in the IEEE Nuclear and
Plasma Science Society
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