• Awards, Prizes & Grants
• Special Interest Groups

Fellowships:

• Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship
• Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship
• SHOT-NASA Fellowship

Prizes

• da Vinci Medal
• Edelstein Prize
• Hacker Prize
• Usher Prize
• Robinson Prize
• Levinson Prize
• IEEE Life Members Prize
• Dibner Award
• Ferguson Prize

Grants & Other Funding

• International Scholars Program
• SHOT Travel Grants
• Women in Technological History Travel Grants

 

The IEEE Life Members' Prize

The IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life Members' Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology, is awarded annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology—power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science—published during the preceding year. Any article published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners. The article must be written in English, although the journal or periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication. The prize consists of a cash award of $500 and a certificate. To nominate an article, please send a copy of the paper to each member of the prize committee. Deadline is April 15.

For more information, please contact the committee chair or Bernie Carlson, SHOT Secretary, 434.975.2190, shot@virginia.edu.

2010 IEEE Life Members' Prize Committee

Andrew J. Butrica (chair) 5225 Pooks Hill Rd Apt 913-South Bethesda, MD 20814 abutrica@earthlink.net	Robert MacDougall Department of History University of Western Ontario Social Science Centre, Room 4328 London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2 rmacdou@uwo.ca
Eden Medina School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University 901 E. 10th Street, Room 305 Bloomington, IN 47408 eden.medina@gmail.com

Previous Recipients of
the IEEE Life Members' Prize

2009	David Rooney and James Nye, "Greenwich Observatory Time for the Public Benefit: Standard Time and Victorian Networks of Regulation," British Journal for the History of Science (2009), 42:5-30
2008	Hyungsub Choi, “The Boundaries of Industrial Research: Making Transistors at RCA, 1948-1960," Technology and Culture 48 (October 2007): 758-782
2007	Eden Medina, “Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile,” Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006): 571–606
2006	Martin Collins, “One World . . . One Telephone: Iridium, One Look at the Making of a Global Age,” History and Technology 21 (September 2005): 301–24
2005	Richard Hirsh, "Power Struggle: Changing Momentum in the Restructured American Electric Utility System," Annales historiques de l'électricité (June 2004): 107–123.
2004	Kristen Haring, "The 'Freer Men' of Ham Radio: How a Technical Hobby Provided Social and Spatial Distance," Technology and Culture 44 (2003): 734–761.
2003	David Kirsch and Gijs Mom, "Visions of Transportation: The EVC and the Transition from Service- to Product-Based mobility," Business History Review 76 (2002): 75–110.
2002	Stuart W. Leslie, "Blue Collar Science: Bringing the Transistor to Life in the Lehigh Valley," HSPS 32 (2001): 71–113.
2001	David A. Mindell (MIT), "Opening Black's Box: Rethinking Feedback's Myth of Origin," Technology and Culture (July 2000).
2000	Richard J. Noakes, "Telegraphy is an Occult Art: Cromwell Fleetwood Varley and the Diffusion of Electricity to Other Worlds," British Journal for the History of Science 32 (1999): 421–59.
1999	Trent A. Mitchell, "The Politics of Experiment in the Eighteenth Century: The Pursuit of Audience and the Manipulation of Consensus in the Debate over Lightning Rods," Eighteenth-Century Studies 31 (1998): 307–331.
1998	Robert G. Arns, "The High-Vacuum X-Ray Tube: Technological Change in Social Context," Technology and Culture, 38 (October 1997).
1997	Larry Owens, "Where are We Going, Phil Morse? Changing Agendas and the Rhetoric of Obviousness in the Transformation of Computing at MIT, 1939–1957," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 18 (1996).
1996	Sungook Hong, "Forging Scientific Electrical Engineering: John Ambrose Fleming and the Feranti Effect," Isis 86 (1995)
1995	Kenneth Lipartito, "When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry," American Historical Review 99 (1994)
1994	Ellen B. Koch, "In the Image of Science? Negotiating the Development of Diagnostic Ultrasound in the Culture of Surgery and Radiology," Technology and Culture 34 (1993)
1993	William McBride, "Strategic Determinism in Technology Selection: The Electric Battleship and U.S. Naval-Industrial Relations," Technology and Culture 33 (April 1992)
1992	Donald MacKenzie, "Influence of the Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories in the Development of Supercomputing," Annals of the History of Computing 13 (1991)
1991	Michael Ben-Chaim, "Social Mobility and Scientific Change: Stephen Gray's Contribution to Electrical Research," British Journal for the History of Science 22 (1990)
1990	J. Samuel Walker (U.S. Dept of Energy), "Nuclear Power and the Environment: The Atomic Energy Commission and Thermal Pollution, 1965–1971," Technology and Culture 29 (October 1989)
1989	W. Bernard Carlson (University of Virginia), "Academic Entrepreneurship and Engineering Education: Dugald C. Jackson and the MIT-GE Cooperative Engineering Course, 1907–1932," Technology and Culture 29 (July 1988)
1988	Ron Kline, "Science and Engineering Theory in the Invention and Development of the Induction Motor, 1880–1900," Technology and Culture 28 (1987): 283–313