Distinguished award winner

Karl Stahlkopf (27K JPG)

As the vice president of power delivery for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Karl E. Stahlkopf directs a $104 million research and development program. He recently returned to the position after 18 months as founding CEO of EPRIsolutions, EPRI's new technical consulting and services company.

Stahlkopf joined EPRI in 1973 as a project manager. Prior to joining EPRI, he was a research fellow at the University of California-Berkeley. Earlier, he was a nuclear-submarine propulsion technical consultant for the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations and a division officer on two nuclear submarines. He received BS degrees in electrical engineering and naval science from UW-Madison, and MS and PhD degrees in engineering from UC-Berkeley.

Currently Stahlkopf serves on the editorial board of Electric Light & Power and is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. He is a founder and vice chairman of the board of directors of Sure-Tech, a corporation jointly owned by EPRI and Siemens that makes power-electronic devices. He also was instrumental in founding Micromonitors, a company that makes high-technology predictive maintenance sensors. In addition, he has one patent and has two pending in the application of lasers to high-speed communication.

Stahlkopf and his wife, Carole, live in San Francisco and have two children.