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Dr. George H. Bahder Memorial Award

Nomination Form

This award was first presented at the Fall 1997 50th Anniversary Meeting of the ICC.

This Insulated Conductors Committee Dr. George H. Bahder Memorial Award is presented for engineering contributions that have enhanced the quality of insulated conductor cable systems utilized for transmission, distribution, and station circuits. This Award will be conferred only when deemed appropriate by the Insulated Conductors Committee. It is not either an annual or time scheduled Award. The Award will consist of a plaque and a $2,500 donation, which will be made, in the recipient's name to an electric power engineering department at a university or college of the recipient's choice. The department will be requested to use the donation as an educational scholarship to support a graduate or undergraduate student. The department will also be requested to identify the individual supported by this scholarship.

This Award can be conferred posthumously. For this eventuality the heirs will receive the plaque and designate which university or college is to receive the donation. 

Some Considerations in Evaluating Nominees

• Nominee to have had a minimum of 10 years of Insulated Conductors Committee membership.
• Technical leadership in cable system design and development.
• Significant contributions toward improving the reliability, economy, and safety of cable systems for electric energy conversion and delivery, i.e. within the Scope of the Insulated Conductors Committee.
• Commercial applications of inventions and innovations in cable and cable accessories design and materials and their incorporation into cable systems.
• Achievements in the fields of insulated electric power cable systems, including R & D, testing developments, field applications, and operational practices.
• Professional history.
• Individual and group contributions.
• Evidence of technical accomplishments.
• IEEE activities.
• Non-IEEE professional activities.

Bahder Award Recipients:

• Spring 2012 - Nagu Srinivas
  • For demonstrating the harmful influence of DC high potential testing on aged cross-linked polyethylene insulated cables, stimulating the industry to develop methods for estimating reliability
    
    Nagu selected the Electrical Power Engieering Department of Arizona State University.
    These funds supported Longfei Cui while a graduate student there.
    His Master of Science thesis entitled Detection and Analysis of Partial Discharges in Non-uniform Field is now available on the ICC Downloads section of our website.
    
• Fall 2011 - Joseph H. (Joe) Snow
  • For contributions to the development and commercialization of bonded sheaths for moisture barrier cables
    
    
    Joe selected the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University.
    These funds supported Milad Falahi while a graduate student there.
    His copyrighted PhD dissertation entitled Dynamic Reactive Power Control of Isolated Power Systems is now available on the ICC Downloads section of our website.
     
• Fall 2009 - Bruce Bernstein
  • For leadership in guidance of performance of cable aging and reliability issues, and providing foresight in combining aging methodology with diagnostic testing to estimate future performance of cable systems.
    

  Bruce selected the Electrical Power Engineering Department of Arizona State University.

  These funds supported Ganpathy Iyer while a graduate student there. 

  The following copyrighted article is now available on the ICC Downloads section of our website:

   Dielectric Properties of Epoxy Based Nanocomposites for High Voltage Insulation; Ganpathy Iyer, School of Electrical, Energy and Computer Engineering, Ravi Gorur, School of Electrical, Energy and Computer Engineering, Ranko Richert, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Andrej Krivda, ABB Corporate Research and Lars E. Schmidt, ABB Corporate Research; IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 18, No. 3, June 2011

• Spring 2008 - John Densley
  • For significant contributions to the understanding of insulation failure mechanisms and specifically on the topic of electrical treeing in polymeric insulation materials such as XLPE and EPR.

  John selected Georgia Tech NEETRAC for the Donation.

  These funds supported Abhishek Chandrasekhar, a Georgia Tech Senior in Electrical Engineering. 

  Under the ICC sponsorship, Abhishek developed a model to calculate the voltage stress around contaminants in cables. He looked at the probability of failure as a function of contaminant orientation, dielectric constant and location.

  A PowerPoint presentation entitled Insulation Contamination - Time for a Second Look is now available on the ICC Downloads section of our website, which serves as his report on the work performed.  This work is very interesting and has some important implications for groups that set contamination limits.

• Fall 2002 - Carlos Katz
  • For advancement of the technology for high voltage power cable and accessories, including the investigation of extruded and laminar dielectric high voltage power cables, the manufacture and properties of such cables and the extension of service life of installed cables.

    Carlos selected UCONN for the donation. Two letters of appreciation from UCONN.  These funds supported Dr. Chunchuan (Charles) Xu while a graduate student there.  Much of his work was reported during presentations at the ICC. The following copyrighted articles are now available on the ICC Downloads section of our website:

  • High Frequency Loss from Neutral Wire-Shield Interaction of Shielded Power Cable; Chunchuan (Charles) Xu, Member, IEEE, and Steven A. Boggs, Fellow, IEEE; IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 23, No. 2, April 2008
  • High Frequency Properties of Shielded Power Cable Part 1: Overview of Mechanisms; Chunchuan Xu, Liming Zhou, Joe Y. Zhou, and Steven Boggs, Electrical Insulation Research Center, University of Connecticut; IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine November/December 2005 - Vol. 21, No. 6
  • High Frequency Properties of Shielded Power Cable Part 2: Sources of Error in Measuring Shield Dielectric Properties; Chunchuan Xu and S. A. Boggs, Electrical Insulation Research Center, University of Connecticut; IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine January/February 2006 - Vol. 22, No. 1
  • High Frequency Properties of Shielded Power Cable Part 3: Loss from Neutral Wire-Shield Interaction; Chunchuan Xu and S. A. Boggs, Electrical Insulation Research Center, University of Connecticut; IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine March/April 2007 - Vol. 23, No. 2

• Fall 1997 - The family of Dr. George H. Bahder
  • Mississippi State University chosen as scholarship recipient.
  • Mississippi State University letter of acknowledgement.

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