The IEEE Canada Awards and Recognition Committee (ARC) urges you to consider nominating suitable candidates for the various awards that are available to IEEE Canada members and Sections.

Categories of Awards IEEE Canada Awards - IEEE Canada Major Awards * Other IEEE and EIC Awards - IEEE Fellows - IEEE MGA (RA) Awards *** - IEEE Awards - IEEE Canada Exemplary Section Award * - Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) Medals & Fellows

Nomination Deadlines November 30 March 1 October 15 Varies for each award March 1 November 15

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*** on Jan 1, 2008 RA (Regional Activities) became MGA (Member and Geographic Activities)

Nominating a Member for one of the following IEEE Canada Major Awards:
(click here for award descriptions and here for past recipients)

Achievement: A.G.L. McNaughton Award, R.A. Fessenden Award, Power Engineering Award, Computer Award, Outstanding Engineer Award, Outstanding Engineering Educator Award

Service: W.S. Read Outstanding Service Award, J.J. Archambault Eastern Canada Merit Award, M.B. Broughton Central Canada Merit Award, E.F. Glass Western Canada Merit Award.

Industry Leadership Award: new for 2008-2009

The Nomination Procedure for each of the above awards uses two online web forms; one for nominations, the other for endorsements.  Each nomination requires two endorsements from different people.   Anyone (including non-members) can nominate but only IEEE members (from any Region) can endorse.   Members of the IEEE Canada awards and executive committees are ineligible to act as nominators or endorsers.   Nominees for achievement and service awards must be Canadian IEEE members, but the industry leadership award is open.

Note that CVs will not be accepted. Incomplete nomination and endorsement forms can not be submitted and limits are enforced on input.   Late submissions must be resubmitted for consideration the following year.   Please read the web forms (especially the notes at the top of each form) very carefully before you begin to enter information.

Please use these online web forms for submitting your nomination or endorsement.               This link for the achievement awards nomination form               This link for the service awards nomination form               This link for the achievement & service endorsement form               This link for the industry leadership award nomination form               This link for the industry leadership endorsement form

If you are unable to use the online forms, you may use Word to produce both forms, but you must follow the exact sequence and format of the online forms (including the character count). The Word document should be emailed as an attachment to the committee at

The Critical Dates: 2009-2010 Award Cycle
              • Nominations and endorsements must be received by: November 30, 2009
              • Recipients selected: December 2009
              • IEEE Canada approval: December 2009
              • Recipients notified: December 2009
              • Presentations: May 2010 during the CCECE in Calgary


Nominating a Section
Each of the three area chairs are invited to nominate two of their Sections (one large & one small) for the IEEE Canada Exemplary Section Awards. March 1 is the last day for receipt of nominations for awards presented the following spring. Complete nomination packages should be emailed as an attachment to the committee at

The nomination package must consist of:
          (a) the completed IEEE Canada nomination form and
          (b) the completed MGA nomination form and
          (c) documentation not to exceed 20 pages
Please read carefully the instructions at the top of the IEEE Canada form.

• IEEE Canada Exemplary Section Award
  To recognize good Section leadership, management and administration for the immediate past Section year. There are two awards, one for large Sections (with more than 500 members), and one for small Sections (with 500 or fewer members).
  
  Additionally, the committee will select two nominations (one large section and one small section) and forward them to IEEE MGA (RAB) as the Region 7 entries for the worldwide MGA Outstanding Large and Small Section awards.

There are additional awards for both members and sections,
please see the IEEE MGA (RAB) Awards nominations page.
The Awards & Recognition Committee (2009-2010)
If you have any suggestions, or questions, about these awards or the process, please contact the committee chair or one of the members using the following contact information.
Chair - Hussein Mouftah F-IEEE, F-EIC
Past Chair - Robert T.H. (Bob) Alden LF-IEEE, F-EIC
Eastern Canada Rep - Md Aziz Rahman F-IEEE, F-EIC
Central Canada Rep - Greg Stone F-IEEE, F-EIC
Western Canada Rep - Ibrahim Gedeon SM-IEEE
A Past McNaughton Award Winner - Wolfgang Hoefer F-IEEE, F-EIC
A Past Fessenden Award Winner - Tho Le-Ngoc F-IEEE, F-EIC
A Past Power Award Winner - Roy Billinton F-IEEE, F-EIC
A Past Computer Award Winner - Nicolas D. Georganas F-IEEE, F-EIC
Past President - Bob Hanna F-IEEE, F-EIC
President (ex-officio) - Ferial El-HawaryF-IEEE, F-EIC