IEEE Awards and Recognition ProgramJ. C. Míguez / M. Rodríguez-Perazza

Why Awards or Recognition?

• They deserve it for their effort• They will continue their effort• Marks them as future Leaders • Others receive stimulus into helping• Achievement becomes a goal• Strengthens your position as a Leader• It marks you as an important person

How do you do it? - 1

• Take a look at available awards• Announce their existence to your Section• Appoint your Awd’s and Rec’s Comm.• Advise that you will make use of them• Announce all open positions for volunteers• Ask for volunteers to fill positions; proceed

to election if more than one• Celebrate your new board!

How do you do it?-2

• Take a look at available Awards and Rec’s

• Match them to deserving volunteers

• Download forms from www.ieee.org

• Submit your nominations to your Comm.

• Ask them to consider other candidates too

• Follow up constantly watching for deadlines

• Organize an elegant ceremony

Publish

• Your Newsletter

• Local press, radio and TV

• Include short biographical summaries of awardees

• Honoring others always honors you as well

• Honoring others makes you important to them!

Available Awards and Rec’sfrom

RAB Awards and Recognition Program: Awards Summary

• RAB Achievement Award• RAB Innovation Award• RAB Leadership Award• RAB Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award• RAB William W. Middleton Distinguished

Service Award• Friend of IEEE Regional Activities• RAB Outstanding Section

• AT&T Labs Student Enterprise Award - SAC

• Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities - SAC

• Outstanding Branch Counselor / Advisor - SAC

• IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch - RSAC

• Student Branch Membership Growth - RA

• Student Paper Competition Certificate - SAC & RSAC

• Outstanding Student Certificate - SB

• Student Branch Support Certificate - SB

RAB Awards and Recognition Manual: Student Awards Summary

RAB Awards and Recognition Manual: Section Recognition Summary

• Certificate of Appreciation, Section Chair - RA• Certificate of Appreciation, Chapter Chair - RA• Certificate of Appreciation, General - R Org Unit• Section Membership Growth - RA• Sect. Sustained Membership Growth Award - RA• Section Significant Anniversary Banner - RA• RAB Outstanding Section Award - RAB

RAB Awards and Recognition Manual: GOLD Awards Summary

• Outstanding GOLD Award Program - RABARC• Section GOLD Leadership Recognition - RAD• Society GOLD Leadership Recognition - RAD• Region Outstanding GOLD Program Award - R

2002 EAB Awards Descriptions

• EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Accreditation Activities

• EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education

• EAB Major Educational Innovation Award

• EAB Pre-College Educator Award

• EAB Meritorious Service Citation

• EAB Employer Professional Development Award

• EAB Vice President’s Recognition Award

IEEE History Center:Sponsored by IEEE Life Member Fund

• IEEE Life Member Prize in Electrical History - Awarded by The Society for The History of Technology

IEEE Medals - 1

• IEEE Medal of Honor - IEEE Foundation

• IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal - Lucent Tech.

• IEEE Edison Medal - Edison Medal Fund

• IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Educ. Medal - AT&T Labs

• IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence - Siemens AG

• IEEE Founders Medal - IEEE Foundation

• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal - AT&T Labs

• IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal - inactive

• IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal - Texas Inst.

IEEE Medals - 2

• IEEE Lamme Medal - Lamme Medal Fund

• IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal - Intel Corp. / Intel Found.

• IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies & Applications - Raytheon Company

• IEEE Simon Ramo Medal - TRW Foundation

• IEEE John von Newmann Medal - IBM Corp.

IEEE Technical Field Awards - 1

• IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award - Brunetti bequest

• IEEE Control Systems Award - IEEE Control Systems Soc

• Harry Diamond Memorial Award - IEEE - USA

• IEEE Electromagnetics Award - IEEE Ant & Prop / Electromag. Compat. / Microwave Theory & Techniques / geoscience & Remote Sens. Societies

• IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award - IEEE Electron Devices Soc

• IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award - IEEE Foundation

IEEE Technical Field Awards - 2

• IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award - Herman & Edna Halperin

• IEEE William Habirshaw Award - discontinued

• IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award - Sony Corp.

• IEEE Award in International Communication - British Telecom

• IEEE Internet Award - Nokia Corp.

• IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award - IBM Corp.

IEEE Technical Field Awards - 3

• IEEE Joseph Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement - Keithley Instruments

• IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award - IEEE Industrial Applications Soc

• Mervin J. Kelly Award - inactive

• IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award - NEC Corp.

• IEEE Morris E. Leeds Award - inactive

• IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award - inactive

IEEE Technical Field Awards - 4• IEEE Eli Lilly Eward in Medical and Biological

Engineering - suspended

• IEEE Jack A. Morton Award - IEEE Electron Devices Soc.

• IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award - Motorola Foundation

• IEEE Frederick Phillips Award - Phillips Electronics NV

• IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award - IBM Corp.

• IEEE Judith A. Resnick Award - IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems / Control Systems / Engineering in Medicine & Biology Societies

• IEEE David Sarnoff Award - Sarnoff Corp.

IEEE Technical Field Awards - 5

• IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society

• IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award - IEEE Standards Association

• IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award - Lucent Technologies

• IEEE Nikola Tesla Award - IEEE Power Engineering Soc

• IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award - Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu

• IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award - IEEE Foundation

• IEEE Vladimir K. Zworykin Award - suspended

IEEE Corporate Recognitions

• IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition - Sponsored by IEEE

• Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition - sponsored by IEEE

IEEE Service Awards

• Richard M. Emberson Award - IEEE TAB

• Haraden Pratt Award - IEEE Foundation

IEEE Prize Paper Awards

• W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award - suspended

• Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award - IEEE Life members Committee

• Lon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award - suspended

IEEE Standards Association

• Corporate Award - SA

• International Award - SA

• IEEE SA Standards Medallion - SA

• IEEE SA Working Group Chair Awards-SA

• IEEE-SA SB Distinguished Service Award

Regional Awards

• Outstanding, Exemplary (Section, Officer, Member, Student Branch, Student Officer, Company, Engineer, etc.)

• Technical, Management, Professionalism, Service, Support, Education, etc.

• Recognition, Incentive, Identification, Visibility, etc.

Thank you!

Why should you do it now?

• Do it now!Be the initiator of something good for your Section’s survivability.

• Do it now!If you wait too long to do it you will forget about it!

• Do it now!If you do not use these resources on your volunteers now, somebody will use them for something else later!