Fields covered by the Awards:
Technical fields related to motors, actuators and power generators, and their control methods, application technologies, etc.
Application period:
November 01, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Applications must be postmarked on, or before, January 31, 2025
Awards & Prizes:
Nagamori Awards will be given to approximately six people.
The Grand Nagamori Award winner will receive a prize of JPY 5 million yen, and each of the Nagamori Award winners will receive JPY 2 million yen.
Applicant eligibility:
Applicants must be entry to mid-career researchers or development engineers who have made an outstanding achievement in the fields covered by the Nagamori Awards. Entry to mid-career – normally defined as no more than 30 years of research after obtaining the Bachelor’s degree.
Important Dates:
Deadline of Application: January 31, 2025
Winners Announced: late May, 2025
11th Nagamori Awards Ceremony: September 7, 2025
Website:
https://www.nidec.com/en/nagamori-f/awards/applicatioguidelines.html
Abstract:
Since motors appeared in the early 19th century, they have been used in all types of electrical appliances and are now an indispensable part of our daily lives. Today, a huge number of motors are used in a wide range of applications, so that it is claimed motors account for more than 55% of the world’s power consumption.
Therefore, motor research is extremely important if we are to maintain our affluent lives while also perpetually conserving the global environment. The Nagamori Foundation created these Nagamori Awards to bring vitality to technological research of motors and related fields, such as generators and actuators, and their control methods, application technologies, etc. and also to support the researchers and development engineers who strive each day to fulfill their dreams.
The winners of the 10th Nagamori Awards:
Makoto Hagiwara
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
“Application of multilevel power conversion technologies to industrial drives and DC-DC converters for moving vehicles”
Christopher H. T. Lee
Associate Professor,
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
“For contributions to advancements in vernier motor drives and their industrial applications”
Kenji Nakamura
Professor,
Department of Management Science and Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
“Research and development on high-performance contactless magnetic gears and magnetic-geared machines”
Allison Okamura
Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
“Soft growing robot actuation for navigation and exploration in constrained environments”
Sara Roggia
Head of magniDrive Project,
Power Electronics Department, magniX
“Taking to the skies electric motors and propulsion units for electric aviation”
Peter Sergeant
Full Professor,
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering, Ghent University/ Core Lab MIRO, FlandersMake@UGent
“Design of sustainable axial and radial flux synchronous electric machines”