1976 Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting

This year's Annual Meeting of the IEEE Industry Applications Society, held in Chicago, IL, USA, October, l1-14, was especially notable. The program of planned sessions for a wide range of technical interests continues to expand the annual event and to attract the attention of engineers with varied experience and responsibilities. The sessions were supplemented by inspection tours to the high-voltage test facilities of S&C Electric Companies, N.J. Conrad Laboratories; to Inland Steel's Indiana Harbor Works; and to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratories, site of the world's largest particle accelerator. Less conspicuous, but of equal significance, were the many meetings of committees, subcommittees, and working groups contributing to the Society's activities. Of prime importance was preparation for the forthcoming reorganization of the Society into five departments to facilitate the accomplishments of the Society's goals. The General Chairman of the Eleventh Annual Meeting was Glenn R. Griffith. The Society's Outstanding Achievement Award and the Prize Papers Awards described in the following pages were presented at the Awards Luncheon. The luncheon speaker, a ficticious Doctor Hans Adolph Heinrich, gave a humorous talk which had a point nonetheless: the importance of making science understandable to the layman.