July 24, 2000
Dear Colleague:
Each year members of the IEEE-USA make outstanding contributions to the discipline and the world we live in. Each year the IEEE-USA Awards and Recognition Committee strives to publicly recognize outstanding performance of such individuals as well as to stimulate others to pursue such achievements of excellence. The IEEE-USA Awards and Recognition Committee turns to you, as active members of our community, to nominate individuals for their outstanding contributions and services to engineering professionalism and excellence. We hope that you will disseminate this information to appropriate committees, entities, and persons, and will take a direct role in nominating and honoring your colleagues.
The committee is currently accepting nominations for the following IEEE-USA Awards:
Robert S. Walleigh Distinguished Contributions to Engineering
Professionalism Award
To honor members of the engineering profession for long-term dedicated
effort and outstanding accomplishments in advancing the aims of
IEEE professional activities in the United States.
Award for Distinguished Public Service
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.
Citation of Honor
To honor individuals who have made exemplary contributions toward
achieving the aims of professional activities in the United States.
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.
Professional Achievement Award
To recognize significant specific contributions, achievements
and individual efforts in the development and implementation of
professional activities in the United States.
Harry Diamond Memorial Award
To honor individuals for distinguished technical contributions
in the field of electrotechnology while in U.S. Government Service.
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.
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.
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.
More information, including the nomination forms, can be obtained by visiting IEEE-USA's web site at HYPERLINK "http://www.ieeeusa.org/awards/" http://www.ieeeusa.org/awards/ or by contacting Svetlana Durkovic at (202) 785-0017, ext. 8326, or via e-mail at HYPERLINK "mailto:s.durkovic@ieee.org" s.durkovic@ieee.org . The deadline for nominations is September 1, 2000. All nominations and supporting materials should be forwarded to:
IEEE-USA Awards and Recognition Committee
IEEE-USA
1828 L Street, NW
Suite 1202
Washington, DC 20036
Thank you very much for your cooperation and effort. We hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Charles A. Eldon
2000 Chair, IEEE-USA Awards and Recognition Committee &
1984 IEEE President
Merrill W. Buckley, Jr.
2000 IEEE-USA President &
1992 IEEE President