Professor V.K. Damodaran passed away peacefully in November 2025. He was an IEEE Life Fellow and former Kerala Section and LMAG Chair.
Active in the IEEE Life Members community, his LMAG won the 2024 Global LMAG Achievement Award, and he won the Region 10 Life Member Individual Service Award. He received a 2014 IEEE Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education and a Region 10 Educational Activities Award for Continuing Education. Professor Damodaran won the IEEE Asia-Pacific Region Award in 2012 for his sustained efforts to promote renewable energy and develop a hybrid village energy centre model to improve power availability in remote areas of Africa. He had also worked as an advisor on energy planning for China and multiple African countries.
Professor Damodaran had a BSEE from the University of Kerala and an MSEE from Guindy Engg College. He was a Professor at NIT Calicut from 1965-1984 and Director of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology, and Environment from 1984-1995. He was Chairman of the Centre for Environment and Development at the time of his death.
