CIOL:IEE to confer Faraday Medal on Premji

IEE to confer Faraday Medal on Premji

Azim Premji will be the first Indian to be honoured with the Faraday Medal

Thursday, November 03, 2005

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NEW DELHI: The IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers), the largest professional engineering society in Europe, today announced that it would confer its most prestigious honour 'The Faraday Medal' on Azim H. Premji, chairman, Wipro Technologies, for the year 2005. Premji will become the first Indian ever to be honoured with this coveted award. Sir Robin Saxby, Chairman, ARM Technologies, UK, and a recipient of the Faraday Medal in 2002, will formally present the medal to Premji in the upcoming International Conference on Embedded Systems and Software being organised by the IEE at Hotel Leela Palace, Bangalore from November 10-12, 2005. "Mr. Azim Premji is today one of the leading industrialists from India who is renowned the world over for his contribution towards technological advances. We are delighted to confer on him the Faraday Medal and have his name associated with the Institution," said Paul Jackson, director of Professional Operations, IEE. The Faraday Medal is a bronze medal established in 1922 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers (now the IEE). It is awarded not more frequently than once a year, either for notable scientific or industrial achievement in electrical engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of electrical science, without restriction as regards nationality, country of residence or membership of the IEE. Previous recipients of the Faraday Medal include Oliver Heaviside, the first person to receive the medal in 1922; S.Z. de Ferranti, Engineer and Entrepreneur in 1924; Professor C.K. Kao, the "father" of fibre optic communications in 1989; and Professor P.M. Grant in recognition of his outstanding work on signal processing in 2004.

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