Every year the Area and the Region are allocated the right, the infrastructure and the funds to offer a series of awards. The procedure is for the sections to nominate their best candidates, the Area will then choose a winner for the Area awards and then the Area winners will compete for the Region Awards.
- There are 6 Area and Region awards,
- 1. Area of Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award
- 2. Area of Region 6 Outstanding Leadership and Professional Service Award
- 3. Area of Region 6 Outstanding Section Award
- 4. Area of Region 6 Outstanding Corporate Service to Engineering Community Award
- 5. Area of Region 6 Outstanding Student Branch Award
- 6. Area Chair’s Special Award in Region 6
The descriptions of these six Awards of Area of Region 6 are as follows:
1. Outstanding Engineer Award:
Award is designed to recognize IEEE members of Region 6 who through their technical abilities have made outstanding contributions to their profession. It recognizes the development of new technical concepts, significant patents, development of new devices, development of applications, new designs, significant cost reductions using known techniques, etc.
2. Outstanding Leadership and Professional Service Award:
Award is designed to recognize IEEE members of Region 6 who through their professional and technical abilities have made outstanding and noteworthy contributions to the Institute, their communities, fellow professionals and fellow man. The award is not designed to recognize a single achievement, but rather collective contributions complemented by singular works exemplifying the objectives and attributes of IEEE.
3. Outstanding Section Award:
Award is designed to recognize the outstanding IEEE Section based on its success in carrying out the objectives of IEEE through the implementation of Section programs. In this evaluation, recognition will be given to the successful maintenance of ongoing efforts designed to sustain the basic core activity of the Section and its components as well as recognizing innovative and creative efforts to develop and implement new programs or new entities such as Chapters and Subsections among others.
4. Outstanding Corporate Service to Engineering Community Award
Organizational awards are provided to those companies, or divisions of a company that encourage volunteerism through its practices. In particular, the atmosphere created by the company to facilitate the IEEE volunteer(s) to do his or her job, or supporting the volunteers by permitting free or discounted use of company resources.
5. Outstanding Student Branch Award:
Award is designed to recognize the outstanding IEEE Student Branch based on its success in carrying out the objectives of IEEE through the implementation of programs. In this evaluation, recognition will be given to the successful maintenance of ongoing efforts designed to sustain the basic core activity of the student branch and its components as well as recognizing innovative and creative efforts to develop and implement new programs.
6. Director’s Special Award:
"This Award is presented to an individual or group who volunteered or served with distinction as determined by the Region 6 Director. A maximum of 4 Director’s Special Awards may be awarded in a year." As the Area chair, I have decided that in the coming year I will solicit nominations for a special Area Director's award for Outstanding Graduate Student Member. The qualifications for this are graduate student IEEE membership. The graduate student should show outstanding involvement with either his or her local section or local student branch. Also outstanding work in his or her graduate coursework and research is required, but the award is not primarily on the academic side, but is primarily on the IEEE involvement side.
Nominations for Area awards must be submitted by the section to the Area by April 30th. To allow enough time for the section to select winners, the section needs the nominations sent to the section vice-chair earlier (ask your section chair for the requiered date). They will be reviewed by the section OP-COM. If there are multiple quality nominations the OPCOM or the membership will be notified and given the opportunity to vote on the nominees to see who from the section will be entered into the Area Award competition. Section winners will be forwarded to the Area for further consideration. The section is encouraged to recognize the section winners at a section event.
IEEE-USA Awards
IEEE-USA has many types of awards.
A. Professional Award Descriptions
1. Robert S. Walleigh Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Professionalism Award
To honor members of the engineering profession for longterm dedicated effort and outstanding accomplishments in advancing the aims of IEEE professional activities in the United States.
2. Distinguished Public Service Award:
To honor individuals not currently in the practice of engineering for contributions to furthering the professional goals of IEEE in the United States. (These goals may by furthered by such means as promulgating laws or regulations benefiting the profession? influencing industrial environments to foster professionalism? creating curricula or publications designed to enhance professionalism? and other similar activities.)
3. Citation of Honor
To honor individuals who have made exemplary contributions toward achieving the aims of professional activities in the United States.
4. Precollege Education Committee (PEC) TeacherEngineer Partnership Award
To recognize collaborative activities between K12 teachers and technical professionals who are IEEE members.
5. Regional/Divisional Professional Leadership Award
To recognize those members in the Regions and Divisions for their outstanding leadership efforts in advancing the professional aims of IEEE in the United States within their Regional or Divisional entities.
6. Professional Achievement Award
To recognize significant specific contributions, achievements and individual efforts in the development and implementation of professional activities in the United States.
B. Technical Award Description
1. Harry Diamond Memorial Award
To honor individuals for distinguished technical contributions in the field of electrotechnology while in U.S. Government Service.
2. Electrotechnology Transfer Award
To honor individuals whose contributions in key government or civilian roles led efforts to effectively transfer/apply federal or state sponsored developments in advanced electrical, electronic and computer technologies to successful commercial sector opportunities.
C. Literary Award Descriptions
1. Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession
To recognize outstanding journalistic or other efforts that contribute to the enhancement and expansion of the public understanding of the engineering profession in the United States.
2. Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Engineering Professionalism
To recognize those individuals who have made outstanding contributions through their literary efforts to the advancement of the U.S. professional objectives of IEEE.
The deadline for all nominations for IEEE-USA Awards is 31 July annually. Nominations for professional awards can be entered and submitted online at: http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/awards/forms.html . Printable nomination forms for the other awards are available for download from the same site. You are encouraged to work with your section vice-chair if you are planning to nominate someone for one of these awards. The Awards Ceremony is held annually at the IEEE-USA meeting.
AAES Awards
If the above listed awards aren't enough, IEEE members can also be nominated for AAES Awards. AAES is American Association of Engineering Societies.
- There are seven different AAES Award categories:
- 1. National Engineering Award
- 2. AAES Chair’s Award
- 3. Kenneth Andrew Roe Award
- 4. Norm Augustine Award
- 5. John Fritz Medal
- 6. AAES Engineering Journalism Award
- 7. Joan Hodges Queneau Palladium Medal
Details of these are available at:
http://www.aaes.org/communications/awards.asp
The deadline for these is usually December 31st.
Current NEA Entries
Past NEA Winners
Past Region 6 Winners
