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Call For:

Deadline: September 2009

Objectives of the Award:

Eligibility and Selection:

Selection Criteria will be reviewed by the IEEE Region 8 WIE and Awards and Recognition Subcommittees. The eligible candidate must be;

1. An active female engineer working in one of the fields of interest of IEEE.

2. An IEEE member whose engineering and career achievements are performed in one of the countries belonging to the IEEE Region 8.

3. The submitted application must provide a statement (750 words maximum) that reflects her career goals, challenges and obstacles she faced in her career and describes how she had overcome them.

4. The nominator (who could be a non-IEEE member) has to submit at least two signed endorsement letters from individuals (References) who are qualified to evaluate her success (Work colleague, teachers, etc). Additional optional endorsement letters from public or private establishments can be provided.

5. Award can be offered to candidate one time only.

The nominations have to be sent to Region 8 WIE Coordinator . The selection award Committee consists of Region 8 director, four members chosen by Region 8 WIE Coordinator and two members chosen by ARC-8.

The selection award committee can suspend the attribution of the award in an year if it estimates that there is no candidate fulfills the award objectives.

Judgment by the selection committee will be based on the review of the applications, endorsement letters and statement sent by the nominator.

Selected candidate will receive the following;

§ A grant of $2000 ( $ 1000 offered by Ericsson and $1000 offered by Region 8)

§ An IEEE plaque

§ An Award Certificate

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IEEE Women in Engineering Scholarship

The WIE in Region 8 has recently launched a partnership with IE Business School that helps women engineers access top-level business training, via scholarship support. If you are thinking of getting an advanced degree in business or management, to round out your engineering background, please read on…

As part of the IE Foundation’s dedication to supporting professional women throughout their career development process, the Foundation has partnered with the IEEE’s Women in Engineering (WIE) initiative to bring top women engineers from Europe, Middle East and Africa to Madrid for advanced studies in management at IE Business School. The collaboration includes various joint initiatives, including a scholarship program which will see 2 or more IEEE Women in Engineering members receive scholarships worth a combined total of 50.000€.

To qualify you must be an active IEEE member and a member of the Women in Engineering initiative, reside in the IEEE’s Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa), and have definitive admissions to an IE master program. Every year, many of the participants of IE’s programs come from Engineering backgrounds, especially with regards to their Executive MBA programs. However IE encourages all interested and qualifying candidates to apply, regardless of program of interest. See all the detailed information and a specific PDF for detailed application guidelines following this link: http://financialaid.ie.edu/img/mas_info_eng/89.pdf

A short note on IE Business School: consistently recognized as one of the world's top business schools (see: www.ie.edu/rankings), the school is located in Madrid and boasts students from more than 80 countries currently following its Master, Doctorate and Executive Education programs. To learn more about IE’s programs, please navigate to: www.ie.edu.

For more information from the IEEE Women in Engineering initiative, please email Pilar Molina at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . For more

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