Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and executive director of the UA Power Group, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Power Electronics Society Harry A. Owen Jr. award for 2023 "for two decades of distinguished service and leadership in technical operations, standards, publications, mentorship activities and as society president."

The award, established in 1996, honors long and distinguished service to the welfare of the Power Electronics Society at an exceptional level of dedication and achievement. Since 2011, it has been dedicated to the memory of Harry A. Owen Jr. of the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering in Durham, North Carolina.

Mantooth served as president of the Power Electronics Society from 2017-2019 and vice president from 2013-2015.

The general criteria for the Harry A. Owen Jr. Award are based on achievements by which an individual has made outstanding contributions to the Power Electronics Society that encompass a broad range of activities over a substantial period including, but not limited to:

• Creative and invigorating leadership of the society,
• Exceptional administrative and managerial accomplishments on behalf of the society,
• Identification of new technologies within the scope of the society and nurturing activities to support these technologies,
• Initiation of innovative programs to encourage wider participation in the full spectrum of society activities,
• The general communication and advocacy of power electronics technology to the technical community as a whole.

Power Electronics Society is one of the fastest-growing technical societies of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, which has facilitated and guided the development and innovation in power electronics technology for over 35 years.