Stanley H. Horowitz
Stanley H. Horowitz (STAN) was born on 5 August 1925, in Far Rockaway, New York City, NY, USA. After completing high school and with the onset of World War II, Stan was drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces. He was discharged in 1945 and immediately enrolled at the City College of New York to study electrical engineering. He graduated with a B.E.E. degree in 1949.
In 1950, Stan joined the American Gas & Electric [soon to be renamed American Electric Power (AEP)] Service Corporation. He would remain with AEP for all of his career, retiring in 1989. During that time, he served as the head of the System Protection Section, assistant head of the Electrical Engineering Division, and a consulting electrical engineer.
Stan’s reputation in the power system field was legendary. He was deeply involved in the development of protection principles that guide system design today. Above all, Stan was totally open-minded about looking at advanced thinking. This openness allowed Stan to accept the “far-out” suggestions to look at utilizing computers and computer-based relays, foreseeing their ability to communicate with many other aspects of the protection systems and also support the wide-area measurement systems that are the backbone of today’s protection systems.
Stan, a Life Fellow, was nominated and elected to the IEEE rank of Fellow in 1979, “For contributions to power system integrity through protective relaying and through industry/education research programs.” He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995. His citation read, “For contributions to electric power systems reliability and integrity through advanced protective relaying.”
He was awarded the Eta Kappa Nu Vladimir Karapetoff Award for technical career achievement in 2007. Stan served as the chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Power System Relaying Committee from 1975 to 1978. He was a member of the IEEE PES Executive Committee from 1987 to 1987, and he served on the IEEE Life Members Committee and the PES Fellows Committee. In 1979, the Power Systems Relaying Committee awarded him its Distinguished Service Award.
Stan coauthored a textbook, Power System Relaying, and edited the IEEE Press book Protective Relaying for Power Systems. He served as the editor-in-chief of IEEE Computers Applications in Power from 1996 to 2002. In his later years, he lectured at multiple universities throughout the world.
Stan, who died on 24 November 2022, was predeceased by his wife of 73 years, Sibby (Sylvia), who passed away in March 2022, and by their daughter, Randy. He is survived by their son, Marc, and daughter-in-law, Willa.
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