Singapore 2000: Promoting the History of EE

An Overview

Logistics:

24-26 January 2000 (Monday-Wednesday)
3-day meeting, organized by IEEE History Center, as a follow-up to Maui meeting, organized by IEEJ History Committee, held in December 1995
Held in conjunction with PES Winter Power Meeting, Singapore, 23-27 January 2000

Attendance:

Engineers and historians from Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand, Korea and Singapore.
Engineers also invited from Indonesia, Australia, China, South Africa and the Philippines.
Select members of the IEEE History Committee and Staff from the IEEE History Center.
Anticipated attendance of ~20 individuals at the Workshop.

Day 1: Monday, 24 January

Singapore 2000 Workshop (conference style) 8:00am – 4:00pm
Topics: archives, oral history, Milestones, museums, biographies, other historical activities
Speakers from IEEE, IEEJ and other organizations

Day 2: Tuesday, 25 January

Day 3: Wednesday, 26 January

Arakawa, Fumio Senior Engineer, PS Electric Power Development Company den04343@epdc.co.jp

Arrillaga, Jos Professor University of Canterbury arrillj@elec.canterbury.ac.nz

Chew, Yong Tian Professor Graduate Studies Office, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore engcyt@nus.edu.sg

Finn, Bernard (Barney) Curator National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution finnb@nmah.si.edu

Geselowitz, Michael N. Staff Director IEEE History Center, Rutgers University m.geselowitz@ieee.org

Hohki, Keiichi General Manager, Tokyo Electric Power Company T0447821@pmail.tepco.co.jp

Liu, Chen-Ching Professor University of Washington liu@maxwell.ee.washington.edu

Nagata, Takayuki Engineering Planning and Coordination Division, NEC Corporation nagata@epc.ho.nec.co.jp

Nam, Moon-Hyan (Monroe) Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, Konkuk University Seoul, Korea monroe@kkucc.konkuk.sc.kr

Nebeker, Frederik (Rik) Senior Research Historian IEEE History Center f.nebeker@ieee.org

Okita, Yuji General Manager Kyushu System Center Fukuoka City, Japan yuji.okita@tg-mail.toshiba.co.jp

Pugh, Emerson President, IEEE Foundation e.pugh@ieee.org

Read, Wallace Past President IEEE w.read@ieee.org

Sloan, Martha ECE Department Michigan Technological University m.sloan@ieee.org

Suematsu, Yasuharu President and Professor Kochi University of Technology suematsu@hq.kochi-tech.ac.jp

Suzuki, Hiroshi General Manager Power System & Transmission Engineering Center Mitsubishi Electric Corp. hsuzuki@hon.melco.co.jp

Symons, Lenore Curator Institution of Electrical Engineers lsymons@iee.org.uk

Takahashi, Yuzo Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology yuzotkha@cc.tuat.ac.jp

Tanaka, Kuniaki Professor of Electronics & Mechanical Engineering Department, Chiba University Chiba, Japan tanaka@cute.te.chiba-u.ac.jp