From power to applications---A two-year journey

Perhaps few people know the origin of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Electric Machines Committee (EMC). EMC is one of the most active committees in the IAS. It sponsored 44 technical papers at the 2008 IAS Annual Meeting, and, as of September 2009, it had received 140 manuscript submissions to the IAS ScholarOne Manuscripts site, making it the most prolific technical committee in IAS. Many of these papers originated at cosponsored technical conferences held by non-IEEE organizations outside North America. Figure 1 depicts the global reach of EMC as measured in the list of countries from which papers have been received for review within the past year. Typically, each year, one or two papers are awarded prizes for their originality, technical content, and expertise.