Latest News Fumio Harashima has received the 2007 Lifetime Contribution to Factory Automation Award Dr. Fumio Harashima, President, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan, has received  the 2007 Lifetime Contribution to Factory Automation Award.  The Award, founded and sponsored by the IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation, is presented to individuals in grateful recognition of their lifetime contribution to the factory and  industrial automation field; for meritorious technical contribution and technical leadership. The Award  presentation ceremony took place at the 33th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society in Taipei, Taiwan on November 7, 2007.  Prof. Fumio Harashima presented with the Award by Dr. Charles Einolf, President, IEEE IES   Fumio Harashima Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan Fumio Harashima was born in Tokyo in 1940. He has received B.S., and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1962, 1964 and 1967, respectively. He was employed as Associate Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo in 1967, and had been Professor from 1980 through 1998. He was Director of the Institute from 1992 to 1995.He was President of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology since April,1998 through March 2002. He is currently Professor at Tokyo Denki University. He is also Visiting Professor at KAIST(Korea) for 2002-2003. Dr. Harashima was elected President of Tokyo Denki University with four year term starting June 15, 2004. Professor Harashima is Professor Emeritus of University of Tokyo since April, 2000. His research interests are in power electronics, mechatronics and robotics. He is a co-author of four books and has published over 1,000 technical papers in these areas. He has been active in various academic societies such as Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE), Robotics Society of Japan and IEEE. He has served as President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 1986-1987, and 1990 IEEE Secretary. He was also a member of IEEE N&A Committee in 1991-1992, and IEEE Fellow Committee in 1991-1993. He served as Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics in 1995. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He served as President of IEE of Japan in the year 2001-2002. Dr. Harashima has received a number of awards including 1978 SICE Best Paper Award, 1983 IEE of Japan Best Paper Award, 1984 IEEE/IES Anthony J. Hornfeck Award, 1988 IEEE/IES Eugene Mittelmann Award and IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is a Fellow in IEEE and SICE.   Richard Zurawski Chair, IES Technical Committee, Factory Automation