Nagamori Awards
The Nagamori Award is an international award given by Nagamori Foundation of Kyoto, Japan. The award is to recognize outstanding researchers and engineers working on electrical and electronics engineering, especially related to motors, power generation, actuators, and energy related topics.[1]
Nagamori Awards | |
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Awarded for | Recognize outstanding researchers and engineers in electrical power engineering |
Sponsored by | Nagamori Foundation |
Date | 2014 |
Location | Kyoto |
Country | ![]() |
Website | https://www.nidec.com/en/nagamori-f/ |
History
The awarded is founded by Shigenobu Nagamori in 2014, with the purpose of recognizing global researchers and engineers who have made outstanding and innovative technological advances in the area of electrical motors and power generation.[2]
Awards details
The award is made annually to outstanding early to mid-career researchers and engineers. There will be six awards given annually, with one of the awards named as the Grand Nagamori award. The prize money of two million yen is awarded to each regular Nagamori award while the grand award comes with a cash prize of five million yen. An award ceremony is held in Kyoto, Japan around September each year, where winners will be present to receive their prizes.[3]
Recent winners
The following are some of the recent winners.[4]
Year | Name | Contributions |
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2019 | Takashi Kato | For improving efficiency of vehicle traction motors |
2018 | Bulent Sarlioglu[5] | For pioneering high efficiency and high density classical electric motors |
2017 | Yoshitaka Iwaji | For contributions to control of synchronous permanent magnet motors |
2016 | Hiroshi Fujimoto | For contributions to improved safety and efficiency of electric vehicle motors |
2015 | Kan Akatsu | For contributions to high performance and low cost SR motors |
Year | Name | Contributions |
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2019 | Radu Bojoi Ayman M. EL-Refaie Mohammad S. Islam Jianxin Shen Bram Vanderborght |
For contributions to electrical drives control |
2018 | Jose Alfonso Antonino Daviu Jun-ichi Itoh Seiichiro Katsura Hiroshi Toshiyoshi Bin Yao [6] |
For contributions to advanced fault diagnostic techniques for reliable conditioning of electric motors |
2017 | Takashi Abe Satomi Hattori Makoto Iwasaki Masaharu Komori Minh C. Ta Masatsugu Takemoto Kanokvate Tungpimolrut |
For contributions to the development of a variable field flux motor |
2016 | Jumpei Arata Elena Andreevna Lomonova Tomoaki Mashimo Taketsune Nakamura Atsushi Nishikawa |
For contributions to embedded elasticity mechanism and applications to medicine and industry |
2015 | Wolfgang Gruber Yasuhisa Hasegawa Chun-Yu Hsiao Takeshi Morita Omar Scaglione |
For contributions to design, optimization and manufacturing of bearingless slice motor topologies |