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Ned Sauthoff, Ph.D.2001 President
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Dr. Ned Sauthoff received his bachelor's degree in physics and master's degree in nuclear engineering from MIT in 1972 and his Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University in 1975. He developed x-ray instrumentation and performed research on MHD instabilities in tokamak plasmas at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) from 1975 to 1980. He managed design of the control and data acquisition system for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor from 1982-85 and was head of the PPPL Computer Division until 1988. In 1988, he became project head for the Princeton Beta Experiment; in 1990, he was head of the Experimental Projects Department; from 1992-1994, he was head of the Physics Department; from 1994 to 1997, he was the head of PPPL's Plasma Science and Technology Department; from 1997 to the present, he has been head of PPPL's Off-Site Research Department, with physics and engineering staff performing fusion science research in Japan, England, and Germany as well as through the United States.
From 1992-1998, Dr. Sauthoff was the Physics Manager for the U.S. participation in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, a collaboration between the U.S., Japan, European Union, and the Russian Federation, targeted at the design and construction of a fusion reactor producing 1500MW of fusion power for repetitive 1000-second pulses.
Dr. Ned
Sauthoff was elected IEEE-USA President-Elect for the year 2000. He served as
1998-1999 IEEE-USA Vice President - Technology Policy Activities. In 1997, he was
vice-chair of the IEEE-USA Technology Policy Council (TPC) and was general chair of the
June 1997 TPC Symposium focusing on technical aspects of the restructuring of the U.S.
electrical power industry. He started his involvement with TPC committees in 1988, when he
was appointed as the delegate/liaison to the TPC's Energy Policy Committee by the Nuclear
and Plasma Sciences Society; he served as chair of that committee's Fusion Power
Subcommittee; in 1992-93, he served as vice-chair of the Energy Policy Committee and in
1994-95 served as chair. For his accomplishments as EPC chair, Dr. Sauthoff was awarded
the IEEE-USA Divisional Professional Leadership Award in 1996. Dr. Sauthoff is now
IEEE-USA's ex officio member on DOE's Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.
Sauthoff presents the IEEE-USA 2000 Public Service Award to U.S. Representative Vernon Ehlers for his work to advance U.S. science policy and K-12 math and science education. (June 13, 2001)
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