IEEE Honors CARG member Mohindar Sachdev

Mohindar Sachdev, Past President of CARG is delighted to share with CARG members gratifying news that he received the 2013 Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award on July 23, 2013 at the Annual General Meeting of the Power and Energy Society (PES) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). On July 16, 2013 prior to the meeting, IEEE issued the following press release.

MOHINDAR S. SACHDEV, DRIVER OF STANDARDS FOR POWER SYSTEMS, TO RECEIVE 2013 IEEE CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ AWARD

Efforts Have Helped Set the Standard for More Reliable and Secure Electric Power Systems

NEW YORK, N.Y. (16 July 2013) - Mohindar S. Sachdev, a power engineer whose passion for standards development made him a driving force in creating and revising guidelines for safer and reliable electric power systems, is being honored by IEEE with the 2013 IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award. IEEE is the world's largest technical professional association.
The award, sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association, recognizes Sachdev for contributions to and leadership in the development of guides, recommended practices and standards for power system protection. The award will be presented on 23 July 2013 at the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Through hands-on writing and key leadership, Sachdev became a cornerstone of the IEEE Power System Relay Committee's success in publishing important standards and guidelines impacting power system protection. As technology evolved, Sachdev played an important role in revising standards originally written for electromechanical and analog devices to reflect the role of digital technology in the automation, control and protection that has led to today's smart grids. His work focused on areas ranging from differential and polarized circuit testing to grounding of secondary circuits and protection of power transformers to protective relay applications for transmission lines.
Sachdev, a power engineer with more than 60 years of experience, is being recognized for the contributions to and leadership in the development of guides, recommended practices and standards for power system protection. Sachdev has published over 300 papers on power system analysis, control and protection.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Sachdev is Professor Emeritus with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.