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The Charles Proteus Steinmetz Memorial Lecture is a series of academic lectures initiated in 1925 in honor of celebrated mathematician and electrical engineer
Charles Proteus Steinmetz Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz, April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German-born American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternati ...
. To date seventy four addresses have been given on subjects ranging from
peace Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...
and
educational reform Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education. The meaning and education methods have changed through debates over what content or experiences result in an educated individual or an educated society. Historically, th ...
to nanotechnology and
solar photovoltaics Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...
. The most recent, "The Evolution of the Smart Grid from Edison and Steinmetz", was delivered by Dr. Anjan Bose, Regents Professor at
Washington State University Washington State University (Washington State, WSU, or informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant uni ...
, on October 2, 2018.The Steinmetz Memorial Lecture for 2018
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Union College Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia Co ...
and is open to the general public.


History

Shortly after Steinmetz's death at 58 in 1923, his friends and admirers, including prominent figures at
General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable en ...
in
Schenectady, New York Schenectady () is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-largest city by population. The city is in eastern New Y ...
, endowed the series. It is overseen by the Schenectady Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersIEEE Schenectady Section History
/ref> and hosted by
Union College Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia Co ...
, where Steinmetz long held a professorship. Among those receiving the honor of delivering the lecture have been such notables as Nobel laureate experimental physicist
Robert A. Millikan Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the Elementary charge, elementary electric charge and for his work on ...
(1927), helicopter inventor
Igor Sikorsky Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (russian: И́горь Ива́нович Сико́рский, p=ˈiɡərʲ ɪˈvanəvitʃ sʲɪˈkorskʲɪj, a=Ru-Igor Sikorsky.ogg, tr. ''Ígor' Ivánovich Sikórskiy''; May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972)Fortie ...
(1938), nuclear submarine pioneer Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (1963), Nobel-winning
semiconductor A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. ...
inventor
William Shockley William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointl ...
(1966), and Internet 'founding father'
Leonard Kleinrock Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and a long-tenured professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theor ...
(2010). Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz Memorial Lecture Series
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Honorees

The featured lecturers of the Steinmetz series have included: * 1 – Mihajlo I. Pupin (1925) * 2 – Ernst J. Berg (1926) * 3 –
Robert A. Millikan Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the Elementary charge, elementary electric charge and for his work on ...
(1927) * 4 –
Max Mason Charles Max Mason (–), better known as Max Mason, was an American mathematician. Mason was president of the University of Chicago (1925–1928) and president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1929–1936). Mason's mathematical research inte ...
(1928) * 5 – Dexter S. Kimball (1929) * 6 – William E. Wickenden (1930) * 7 – Karl T. Compton (1932) * 8 – C. E. Kenneth Mees (1934) * 9 – Robert E. Doherty (1935) * 10 –
Gerard Swope Gerard Swope (December 1, 1872 – November 20, 1957) was an American electronics businessman. He served as the president of General Electric Company between 1922 and 1940, and again from 1942 until 1945. During this time Swope expanded GE's produ ...
(1936) * 11 – Harold G. Moulton (1937) * 12 – Igor I. Sikorsky (1938) * 13 – Frank B. Jewett (1939) * 14 – Frank Howard Lahey (1941) * 15 – Comfort A. Adams (1942) * 16 – Harold Willis Dodds (1943) * 17 – Stephen S. Wise (1944) * 18 – Irving Langmuir (1945) * 19 – Sanford A. Moss (1946) * 20 – Arthur H. Compton (1947) * 21 –
Philip Sporn Philip Sporn (November 25, 1896 in Folotwin, Austria – January 23, 1978 in New York City) was an Austrian electrical engineer known for his work as the president and chief executive officer of the American Gas and Electric Company. He re ...
(1948) * 22 – Kirtley F. Mather (1949) * 23 – Charles E. Wilson (1950) * 24 – Hollis L. Caswell (1952) * 25 – Harold S. Osborne (1953) * 26 – Charles A. Thomas (1954) * 27 – Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam (1955) * 28 – Cornelius Packard Rhodes (1956) * 29 – Admiral William Morrow Fechteler, Ph.D. (1957) * 30 – Joseph Allen Hynek (1958) * 31 –
Simon Ramo Simon "Si" Ramo (May 7, 1913 – June 27, 2016) was an American engineer, businessman, and author. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). He ...
(1959) * 32 – Lillian M. Gilbreth (1960) * 33 – Claude E. Shannon (1962) * 34 – Vice-Admiral H.G. Rickover (1963) * 35 – J. Herbert Hollomon (1964) * 36 – Walker Lee Cisler (1965) * 37 –
William Shockley William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointl ...
(1966) * 38 – Edward C. Welsh (1967) * 39 – Ralph W. Sockman (1968) * 40 – J. Erik Jonsson (1969) * 41 – Lelan F. Sillin, Jr. (1970) * 42 – Patrick E. Haggerty 1971) * 43 – Harold W. Bibber, Emil J. Remscheid, & Joseph S. Hayden (1972) * 44 – John Bardeen (1973) * 45 – Richard W. Roberts (1975) * 46 – Jay W. Forrester (1976) * 47 – Hans A. Bethe (1977) * 48 – Merril Eisenbud (1978) * 49 –
Myron Tribus Myron T. Tribus (October 30, 1921 – August 31, 2016) was an American organizational theorist, who was the director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT from 1974 to 1986. He was known as leading supporter and interpreter of W. E ...
(1979) * 50 –
Reginald H. Jones Reginald H. Jones (11 July 1917 – 30 December 2003) was the chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1972 to 1981. Biography Jones was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom. After graduating from the Wharton School of the Universit ...
(1980) * 51 – Margaret N. Maxey (1983) * 52 – Roland W. Schmitt (1984) * 53 – Erich Bloch (1985) * 54 –
Ivar Giaever Ivar Giaever ( no, Giæver, ; born April 5, 1929) is a Norwegian-American engineer and physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". G ...
(1986) * 55 – Ernest L. Boyer (1987) * 56 – Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1988) * 57 –
Robert M. White Robert Michael "Bob" White (July 6, 1924 – March 17, 2010) (Maj Gen, USAF) was an American electrical engineer, test pilot, fighter pilot, and astronaut. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane ...
(1989) * 58 – Eleanor Baum (1990) * 59 – Walter L. Robb (1991) * 60 – Andrew C. Kadak (1992) * 61 –
Ray Dolby Ray Milton Dolby (; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Lab ...
(1993) * 62 – Jerrier A. Haddad (1994) * 63 – Edward A. Parrish (1995) * 64 – William W. Hogan (1996) * 65 – Charles Concordia (2001) * 66 – Paul M. Horn (2003) * 67 – Dennis Woodford (2005) * 68 –
William Wulf William Allan Wulf (born December 8, 1939) is a computer scientist notable for his work in programming languages and compilers. Until June 2012, he was a university professor and the AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Depart ...
(2007) * 69 –
Tod Machover Tod Machover (born November 24, 1953, in Mount Vernon, New York), is a composer and an innovator in the application of technology in music. He is the son of Wilma Machover, a pianist and Carl Machover, a computer scientist. He was named Direct ...
(2008) * 70 – Lawrence A. Kazmerski (2009) * 71 –
Leonard Kleinrock Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and a long-tenured professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theor ...
(2010) * 72 –
Mildred Dresselhaus Mildred Dresselhaus''Mildred Dresselhaus'' was elected in 1974
(2012) * 73 –
Lynn Conway Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist. She worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-or ...
(2015) *74 – Anjan Bose (2018)


See also

* IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award * Steinmetz's equation * Steinmetz solid * Steinmetz equivalent circuit


References

{{Union College University and college lecture series Recurring events established in 1925 Union College (New York) 1925 establishments in New York (state)