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April 2009 edition

IEC WORLD

	IEA/IEC/ISO joint workshop on energy efficiency
	ASEAN meeting in Singapore
	International Standards conference at CESI
	IT training sessions for NCs
	WTO TBT meeting in Geneva
	Last call for Lord Kelvin Award nominations

CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT

	IECEE - Gulf conference
	IECEx - First for Australia
	IECQ - Sanyo Electric

INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

Technology leaders talk on electrical energy efficiency

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS

Medical equipment - Natural Passion theme for April

IEC FAMILY UPDATE

	84th Affiliate: 159 countries
	New JISC President
	New KATS Administrator

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	TC 65 Advisory Group meeting
	2nd Emmy Award for MPEG-4

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Last call for 2009 IEC Lord Kelvin Award nominations

The Lord Kelvin Award
is the highest recognition
given by the IEC.

The IEC Lord Kelvin Award has, since its creation in 1995, become a landmark within the global electrotechnical community. Although not necessarily granted every year, this prestigious award may be presented to a maximum of three prominent persons in any one year. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to IEC technical work in favour of International Standardization, Conformity Assessment and related activities and is the highest recognition given by the IEC.

NCs (National Committees), TC/SC (Technical Committee/Subcommittee) Chairmen, and members of the SMB (Standardization Management Board) and CAB (Conformity Assessment Board) are invited to send their nominations for the 2009 IEC Lord Kelvin Award to the Council Secretariat by 24 April 2009 at the latest.

Details of nomination criteria and the relevant procedures can be found in AC/7/2009.

It is planned that the IEC President will present the Award – an inscribed gold medal – and a lapel pin to the laureate or laureates during the 73rd IEC General Meeting, 18-22 October 2009 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Right Honorable Lord Kelvin

The Rt. Hon. Lord Kelvin, a British scientist and engineer, played a major role in the founding of the IEC in 1906 and became its first President. He gave his name to the K (kelvin) SI unit of thermodynamic temperature, equal to the fraction 1/273,16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. Another of his great achievements was to lay the first commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean.