On June 11, 2020, Frank C. Lambert, Chairman of IEEE Power & Energy Society announced the results of the first IEEE PES Outstanding Student Scholarship. Zhu Yicheng, a graduate student of EEA, Tsinghua University, won this scholarship for his outstanding performance. Zhu Yicheng supervising teacher is Professor Zhao Zhengming of EEA.

The IEEE PES Outstanding Student Scholarship is established by IEEE PES in 2019 and funded by the PES Endowment Scholarship Fund to reward IEEE PES outstanding graduate members who choose power and energy engineering as their academic research goal, and no more than 20 students are selected and awarded each year. Winners of this scholarship are chosen by the IEEE PES scholarship awarding committee through comprehensively assessing the academic achievement, social contribution and leadership of the candidates, and this scholarship was awarded for the first time this year.