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The 2011 Award Recipient
K.D. Srivastava

For contributions to high voltage engineering and education 2011.

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K.D. Srivastava is a visionary leader and developer of practical models for industry – university cooperation that have enhanced education and research initiatives in electrical engineering around the world.

Professor Emeritus K.D. Srivastava studied electrical engineering at Roorkee and Glasgow in the 1950s and was a Principal Scientific Officer at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory at Harwell, UK.

In 1966, he joined the University of Waterloo in Canada, where he was awarded a major grant to build a high voltage research laboratory to study conventional, vacuum and SF6 electrical breakdown in the 1970s. At Waterloo, he established a climate of mutual trust between university and electrical utilities, and encouraged many utility researchers to pursue and achieve advanced degrees based on their industrial experience.

K.D. Srivastava continued to promote industry-utility cooperation in his more broadly based work on infrastructure interdependencies under emergencies at the University of British Columbia, where he was Professor, Head of the Electrical Engineering Department and Vice President. His inclusive attitude and guidance, finding so many ways to ensure that industrial-scale electrical breakdown problems receive serious academic consideration and study, have also guided the development of post-graduate education in Brazil, Zimbabwe, the West Indies, and India as well as in the domain of icing studies at the Université du Québec in Chicoutimi.

In addition to the 2011 Masoud Farzaneh Prize, Professor K.D. Srivastava has also been awarded the distinctions of Life Fellow (IEEE and the Royal Society of the Arts) as well as IET Fellow for his research contributions.