Half century of the Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) [Message From the President]

In the first part of my column, I start with congratulations. I want to extend congratulations to Prof. Giuseppe Buja, our longtime Administrative Committee (AdCom) member, who received the prestigious Richard Harold Kaufman IEEE Technical Field Award for outstanding contributions in industrial systems “for fundamental contributions to modulation and control of industrial drives,” and Prof. Milos Manic, our president-elect, who was inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Inventors as a senior member. Congratulations!