Agenda General Session

9.3.1New IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. This grade elevation is done through a Fellow’s Nomination Process that involves a lengthy nomination documents describing the accomplishments and contributions in details. It requires a number of references, and also a number of endorsers, who each also have to write a separate endorsement that describe why the candidate is deserving of the recognition.

At this meeting, the Transformers Committee is honored to have one of our very own active member and key contributor, Mr. William H. Bartley, to be selected to the 2014 class of IEEE Fellow. Many of our committee members had the privilege of working very closely with Mr. Bartley over the course of past decade and a half and have no-doubt been impressed by his quality of work and his tireless contribution to our Committee. In addition to his active contributions to the Transformers Committee, Mr. Bartley was also actively involved in the Machinery Committee and contributed to the publication of number of key industry standards in both the Transformers Committee and the Machinery Committee in addition to numerous noteworthy industry papers on failure investigation and failure statistics of large machines and transformers, and their life cycle planning and risk assessment.

Mr. Bartley was employed by Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company and has just recently retired after forty-one years of service in December 2012 where he was the Assistant Vice President and Principal Electrical Engineer, responsible for developing standards, OEM relations, and large failure investigations. Today, he works part-time as a consultant for HSB. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Connecticut, and an IEEE Fellow. At IEEE he serves as an officer on the Transformers Committee in the capacity of Standards Coordinator, and chairs the Standards Coordinating Committee of the Technical Council for IEEE Power & Energy Society. Mr. Bartley earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Missouri at Rolla.

The Transformers Committee presented a heartfelt congratulatory certificate of merit to recognize and celebrate Mr. Bartley’s achievement.

The list of IEEE Fellows from the Transformers Committee as included below for reference (in alphabetical order the last name).