IEEE Orlando Section Honors Seven Section Members at 2017 Awards Banquet

The awards program is an important activity in the IEEE. It provides the approach to recognize the efforts of members to improve our organization, and to bring merit to our profession. Section awards are presented to recognize deserving members of our local community. The Section each year forwards our award recipients names and citations upwards to the IEEE Florida Council, IEEE Region 3, and IEEE-USA Awards Programs. We also forward the award recipients to the Florida Engineering Society for consideration in their awards program that coincides with Engineers Week in February 2017. We encourage all members to nominate candidates for appropriate awards.

The Orlando Section awards six awards. OUTSTANDING SERVICE, OUTSTANDING ENGINEER, OUTSTANDING ENGINEERING EDUCATOR, and OUTSTANDING ENTREPRENEUR, and two parallel student awards for OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT and OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT. The Orlando Section also awards Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarships.

This year three awards were made for OUTSTANDING ENGINEER EDUCATOR, OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT, and OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT, plus four Graduate/Undergraduate Scholarships.

Arup Ghosh who is not shown below due to being unable to attend our awards banquet, was awarded one of our Graduate Scholarship Awards.

Keynote Speaker: Edward A. Addy, PhD, PMP	Outstanding Engineering Educator: Scott Alan Clary
Outstanding Graduate Student Award: Haiwei Chen	Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award: Marcelo Abrantes
Graduate Student Scholarship Award: Haiwei Chen	Undergraduate Student Scholarship Award: Marcelo Abrantes
Undergraduate Student Scholarship Award: Evelin Santana	Undergraduate Student Scholarship Award: Michael Lin