Kelly Hinchcliffe

He has been honored at the White House, received a medal at a London palace and been named by Forbes India as “one of the 18 great minds who are doing cutting-edge work.” On Saturday, North Carolina State University engineering professor Jayant “Jay” Baliga was in Amsterdam to receive the highest award in his field – the Medal of Honor from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Baliga is most famous for inventing, developing and commercializing the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), an energy-saving semiconductor switch that controls the flow of power from an electrical energy source...

He has been honored at the White House, received a medal at a London palace and been named by Forbes India as “one of the 18 great minds who are doing cutting-edge work.” On Saturday, North Carolina State University engineering professor Jayant “Jay” Baliga will be in Amsterdam to receive the highest award in his field – the Medal of Honor from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Baliga is most famous for inventing, developing and commercializing the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), an energy-saving semiconductor switch that controls the flow of power from an electrical energy...