Charles P. Steinmetz Memorial Lecture

To date seventy four addresses have been given on subjects ranging from peace[2] and educational reform[3] to nanotechnology[4] and solar photovoltaics.

[5] The most recent, "The Evolution of the Smart Grid from Edison and Steinmetz", was delivered by Dr. Anjan Bose, Regents Professor at Washington State University, on October 2, 2018.

Shortly after Steinmetz's death at 58 in 1923, his friends and admirers, including prominent figures at General Electric in Schenectady, New York, endowed the series.

It is overseen by the Schenectady Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers[7] and hosted by Union College, where Steinmetz long held a professorship.

Among those receiving the honor of delivering the lecture have been such notables as Nobel laureate experimental physicist Robert A. Millikan (1927), helicopter inventor Igor Sikorsky (1938), nuclear submarine pioneer Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (1963), Nobel-winning semiconductor inventor William Shockley (1966), and Internet 'founding father' Leonard Kleinrock (2010).