IEEE
Orlando Section 2015 Star Search and Scholarship Awards
The IEEE Orlando
Section announces the request for nominations for the 2015 Orlando Section
Awards, which will be presented at the Awards Banquet on Saturday, October TBD,
2015, held at the TBD. One awards banquet ticket will be given to any award
nominee and/or scholarship applicant. The Orlando Section presents six awards
annually:
• Outstanding Engineering Educator
• Outstanding Engineer
• Outstanding Service
• Outstanding Entrepreneur
• Outstanding Undergraduate Student
• Outstanding Graduate Student
Nominees must be
IEEE members in good standing and have been a resident of the Orlando Section
for the past three years.
Any
Orlando Section member in good standing may make a nomination for the Orlando
Section Awards
Also, the Orlando
Section presents Undergraduate /
Graduate Scholarship Awards each calendar year. Nominees must be IEEE student / graduate student
members in good standing, currently enrolled as undergraduate / graduate
student in an engineering program located in Orlando Section's 5 county
(central Florida) area as well as at time of the award. The Awards Committee
essay topic for the 2015 scholarship award is: “Ray Kurtzweil, along with
others, has predicted that "technological singularity" will be
reached around 2045, greatly changing the relationship between humans and
machines” Describe the technology, how the technology will
alter society, when alterations will appear, and positive and negative
consequences leading up to the technological singularity event. Write an essay no less than 800 words.
Nomination forms can be found at Nomination Form and guidelines at Guidelines (Draft #3), additional information about the nomination procedure can be found at https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/orlando/Awards_forms/Awards_guidelines.doc
The application
deadline for award and scholarship packets must be received by Midnight, Thursday, September 17, 2015 (Eastern Time).
Any questions or
further clarifications for awards and scholarship packets, can be e-mailed to:
IEEE
Orlando Section Awards Chairperson
Mr. Michael
Orlovsky, mcorlovsky@ieee.org
407.909.0956 (Home)
[email is preferred]
For both awards and
scholarship applicants, please make one PDF file for your application package
and email it to Mr. Orlovsky. Only electronic application package is accepted
(no hard copies!).
For scholarship
applicants, the hardcopy transcript shall be mailed to:
Mr. Michael C.
Orlovsky
P.O. Box 690639
Orlando, FL, 32869-0639
Updated: September
8, 2015
Awards
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IEEE Orlando Section Awards Chairperson
Mr.
Michael Orlovsky, mcorlovsky@ieee.org
407.909.0956
(Home) [email is preferred]
For
both awards and scholarship applicants, please make one PDF file for your
application package and email it to Mr. Orlovsky. Only electronic application
package is accepted (no hard copies!).
For
scholarship applicants, the hardcopy transcript shall be mailed to:
Mr. Michael C.
Orlovsky
P.O. Box 690639
Orlando, FL, 32869-0639
• Scholarship Forms (documents in MS Word Format)::
• Guidelines (Draft #3)
• Nomination Forms (All documents are in MS Word Format):
• Outstanding Engineering Educator Award
• Outstanding Entreprenneur Award
• Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award
• Outstanding Graduate Student Award
• IEEE Orlando Section Award Guidelines
o Open Nominations: May 1, 2015
o Close Nominations: September 17, 2015
o Review Cycle: September 18 to October TBD, 2015
o Selection: No later than October TBD, 2015
o Awards Banquet: October TBD, 2015
The essay topic for
the undergraduate/graduate scholarship is “Ray Kurtzweil, along with others, has
predicted that "technological singularity" will be reached around
2045, greatly changing the relationship between humans and machines” Describe the technology, how the
technology will alter society, when alterations will appear, and positive and
negative consequences leading up to the technological singularity event. Write an essay no
less than 800 words.
• FCIEEE Awards - Deadline Oct. 1st
• Region 3 Awards - Deadline Dec. 1st.
• Central Florida National Engineers Week Awards:
o Lifetime Achievement in Engineering
o Leadership Excellence
o Technical Excellence
o Young Engineer of the Year
o Outstanding Organization of the Year - Public Sector
o Outstanding Small Organization of the Year - Private Sector
o Outstanding Large Organization of the Year - Private Sector
o Project of the Year
2014 Awards information can be found at https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/orlando/awards_2014.htm
Last Update: September 8, 2015