Sensor Council Awards

The IEEE Sensor Council annually sponsors four different awards: President’s Student Research Award, Technical Achievement Award, Meritorious Service Award, and IEEE Sensors Council Journal Best Paper Award.

The purpose of the Technical Achievement Award is to honor a person with outstanding technical contributions within the scope of the IEEE Sensors Council as documented by publications, which includes patents. It is based on the general quality and originally of contributions. The person who wins this is awarded s plaque and $2,000 check.

The Meritorious Service Award honors a person with outstanding long-term service to the welfare of the IEEE Sensors Council. It is based on dedication, effort and contributions. The award is a plaque and $2,000 check.

The IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper published in the IEEE Sensors Journal. It is based on general quality, originality, contributions, subject matter and timeliness. The award is a certificate and $2,000 split equally among authors.

The IEEE Sensors Council President’s Award is for outstanding undergraduate or graduate research in the engineering, development and/or implementation of a specific sensor and/or sensors suites during the past calendar year. The award is a plaque and $2,000 check.

To learn more about the Sensors Council Awards Procedures, click the following: Procedures (.pdf) or Procedures (.doc). The procedure for the Presidents Award can be found here (pdf doc)

Nominations for the 2009 awards are due August 15th, 2009. Please send your nomination to the Award committee Chair: c.schober@computer.org.

I. M. White, Hongying Zhu, J. Suter, N. M. Hanumegowda, H. Oveys,
M. Zourob, and Xudong Fan

The Sensors Council 2008 Technical Achievement Award is presented to Dr. Michael Shur in recognition of his achievements as the inventor and leading scientist for terahertz electronics sensors technology for applications ranging from homeland security to medical imaging and cancer diagnostics; for his many contributions to the field of sensors; and with sincere appreciation of his impact on the sensors community throughout the world.

The Sensor Counicl 2008 Meritorious Service Award is presented to Robert T. Bannon for establishing and furthering the objectives of the Sensors Council. His impact upon the Sensors Council extends far beyond his terms of service as President and Secretary/Treasurer. Under his leadership, he has demonstrated great dedication to ensuring the financial stability and surplus growth of the Sensors Council and fostering a cooperative environment with the sustaining member Societies and global Sensors community.

This paper presents and demonstrates a new technique for sensitive and
reliable detection of biochemical analytes in very small sample volumes,
compatible with high-throughput microfluidic technology for
lab-on-a-chip biosensing applications.  Evanescent wave coupling
accurately resolves small changes in refractive index by analytes
binding to the surface of optical microring or microsphere resonators.
Sensitivities of 30nm/RIU and detection limits of 10^-7 RIU (refractive
index units) are demonstrated, at only picoliter sample volumes."

The paper is
      I. M. White, Hongying Zhu, J. Suter, N. M. Hanumegowda, H. Oveys,
M. Zourob, and Xudong Fan,
      "Refractometric Sensors for Lab-on-a-Chip Based on Optical Ring
Resonators", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol.7, No.1, January 2007.