IEEE 候任主席赛义夫·拉赫曼致辞

Hello, this is Prof. Saifur Rahman, the 2022 IEEE President-elect. I am the Joseph R. Loring Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic USA. It is my great privilege to join you today on the celebration for the 90th anniversary of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University.

大家好，我是赛义夫·拉赫曼教授，2022年度IEEE（电气电子工程师协会）候任主席。我是美国弗吉尼亚理工大学电气与计算机工程系的"约瑟夫·洛灵"终身教授。今天我非常荣幸应邀出席清华大学电机系建系90周年庆典。

First of all, on behalf of IEEE I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University. I visited Tsinghua many times and I know over 10 professors in the Department of Electrical Engineering at this university. I have always been impressed by the outstanding faculty members and the talented graduate students, the high level education programs, the well established labs and the key research laboratories and projects in this department.

首先，我代表IEEE（电气电子工程师协会）对清华大学电机系90周年系庆表示衷心的祝贺。我曾多次访问清华，并有幸结识了贵系十余位教授。给我留下深刻印象的是电机系的师生能力突出，贵系拥有高水平的教学，完善的实验设备以及重点研究实验室和项目。

When I was President of IEEE PES in 2018、2019, I observed that interactions between PES and the department are very deep. The founder of this department, Prof. Yu Hsiu Ku, was an international motor expert and a pioneer of modern automatic control theory. He was a life-fellow of the IEEE, and was awarded the Lamme Medal and Third Millennium Medal some years back. The IEEE/CSEE Yu-Hsiu Ku Electrical Engineering Award is also named in his honor.

当我在2018年和2019年担任IEEE PES主席时，我注意到分会和电机系之间的联系非常紧密。电机系创始人顾毓琇教授是一位国际知名的电机专家，也是现代自动控制理论的先驱。他是IEEE（电气电子工程师协会）的终身院士，多年前还被授予蓝姆金奖和第三个千禧金奖。电气电子工程师学会与中国电机工程学会共同发起的“顾毓琇电气工程奖”也是以他的名字命名的。

As one of the world’s leading electrical engineering education and research centers, this department has taken a critical role in promoting internationalization of the scientific research in electrical engineering.

作为世界领先的电气工程教育和研究中心之一，电机系发挥了重要作用以推动电气工程科学的国际化研究。

But we are still faced with many critical challenges including climate change and energy crisis. The key to solving these problems is the development of innovative technologies, which requires the cooperation between universities and technical professionals all over the world.

但我们仍面临着气候变化、能源危机等诸多严峻挑战。解决这些问题的关键是创新技术的发展，这需要世界各地的大学和技术专业人员之间的合作。

IEEE hopes to work with our professional colleagues in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University. I hope everybody will enjoy the celebration of the 90th anniversary here in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at Tsinghua University. Thank you, Xie xie!

IEEE（电气电子工程师协会）希望与清华大学电机系的专业同仁们携手合作。我希望大家都能在清华大学电机系度过一个愉快的90周年庆典时光。谢谢!