Nominations for Society Awards

IEEE EDUCATION SOCIETY NOMINATIONS FOR SOCIETY AWARDS The IEEE Education Society has developed the following awards to recognize the achievements of outstanding individuals. These awards are open for nomination. Deadline for all awards is 15 April annually.

Nominator name and email: Nominee name and IEEE number: Award nominated for:  HEWLETT-PACKARD/HARRIETT B. RIGAS AWARD recognizes outstanding faculty women who have made significant contributions to electrical/computer engineering education through excellence in teaching, encouraging and supporting increased participation of women in electrical/computer engineering, demonstrated scholarship/research, development of educational technology which enhances student learning, and/or service to the engineering profession. The recipient must be a tenured or tenure-track woman faculty member in an ABET-accredited engineering program, with teaching and/or research specialization in electrical/computer engineering.  DISTINGUISHED MEMBER AWARD recognizes outstanding long-term service to the IEEE Education Society and significant contributions in an IEEE Field of Interest. Recipients must have been members of the Society for at least ten years and are selected for leadership quality, innovative and important contributions, service, dedication, and technical achievements.  IEEE WILLIAM E. SAYLE AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION is given to a member of the IEEE Education Society to recognize significant contributions over a period of years in one of the Fields of Interest of the IEEE Education Society.  EDWIN C. JONES JR. MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD is given to a member of the IEEE Education Society to recognize pioneering contributions to the administrative efforts of the Society over a period of years, as evidenced by dedication, effort, and contributions.  MAC VAN VALKENBURG EARLY CAREER TEACHING AWARD recognizes members of the IEEE Education Society who have made outstanding contributions to teaching unusually early in their professional careers, as evidenced by teaching performance, development of new teaching methods, and curricular innovation in fields of interest to the IEEE Education Society. Nominations are evaluated on the basis of the candidate’s statement of teaching philosophy and practice, letters of support from students and peers, and student evaluations.  DISTINGUISHED CHAPTER LEADERSHIP AWARD recognizes an IEEE Education Society member who has, over a sustained period of time, made an exceptional contribution to the Society, which has manifested itself at the Chapter level. Selection is based on leadership roles and leadership quality, which have provided an innovative, inventive, and/or important service/contribution the EdSoc's Chapter function. IEEE EDUCATION SOCIETY NOMINATIONS FOR SOCIETY AWARDS

The IEEE Education Society has developed the following awards to recognize the achievements of outstanding individuals

TO: Nominators and Reference Letter Writers. The IEEE Education Society has developed a single template for the IEEE Education Society nominations for awards, and also a template for reference letter writers. Please follow this procedure:

1. The nominator should create a Nomination, using the nomination form. See below for link to nomination form 2. The nominator is then asked to send the reference letter form to the proposed reference document writer with a copy of the completed nomination form. Please use WORD files. See below for link to nomination form 3. The reference letter writer is asked to complete the reference form and return it to the nominator. Please use WORD files. See below for link to reference form 4. The nominator is asked to assemble the files into a single document, convert it to PDF (if possible), and to submit two copies. One copy should go to the Awards Policy Committee Chair, Edwin C Jones, Jr, [email protected]. The second copy should go to the chair of the individual award selection committee, identified below. 5. Receipt of nominations will be acknowledged, and nominators of successful nominations will be notified at, or soon thereafter, the same time that the recipient is notified by the President of the Society. Nominators of unsuccessful nominations will be notified directly, and unsuccessful nominations will automatically be carried over for one year, though updated or additional information may be submitted. Previous Award recipients are identified on the web site: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/esawards.html  Click here for Award Cover Sheet – this document.  Click here for Nomination Form to be completed by the Nominator and sent with the Reference Form to persons who will complete a Reference.  Click here for Reference Form to be completed by persons who write a reference. This form must be returned to the Nominator.

Awards Committee Chairs Award Name Award Description Forms and Due Committee Chair Date IEEE WILLIAM This Award is given to a member of Nomination form: Susan Conry E. SAYLE the IEEE Education Society to Please use the [email protected] AWARD FOR recognize significant contributions standard form. ACHIEVEMENT over a period of years in one of the Deadline: 15 IN EDUCATION Fields of Interest of the IEEE April 2014 Education Society.

DISTINGUISHED This award recognizes outstanding Nomination form: Victor Nelson MEMBER long-term service to the IEEE Please use the [email protected] AWARD Education Society and significant standard form. contributions in an IEEE Field of Deadline: 15 Interest. Recipients must have been April 2014 members of the Society for at least ten years and are selected for leadership quality, innovative and important contributions, service, dedication, and technical achievements.

HEWLETT- This award recognizes outstanding Nomination form: Joanne Bechta-Dugan PACKARD/HAR faculty women who have made Please use the [email protected] RIETT B. RIGAS significant contributions to standard form. AWARD electrical/computer engineering Deadline: 15 education through excellence in April 2014 teaching, encouraging and supporting increased participation of women in electrical/computer engineering, demonstrated scholarship/research, development of educational technology which enhances student learning, and/or service to the engineering profession. The recipient must be a tenured or tenure-track woman faculty member in an ABET- accredited engineering program, with teaching and/or research specialization in electrical/computer engineering.

MAC VAN This award recognizes members of Nomination form: Seyed Hossein VALKENBURG the IEEE Education Society who have Please use the Mousavinezhad, EARLY CAREER standard form. hossin.mousavinezhad@ie made outstanding contributions to ee.org TEACHING teaching unusually early in their Deadline: 15 AWARD professional careers, as evidenced by April 2014 teaching performance, development of new teaching methods, and curricular innovation in fields of interest to the IEEE Education Society. Nominations are evaluated on the basis of the candidate’s statement of teaching philosophy and practice, letters of support from students and peers, and student evaluations. EDWIN C. This Award is given to a member of Nomination form: Susan Lord JONES JR. the IEEE Education Society to Please use the [email protected] MERITORIOUS recognize pioneering contributions to standard form. SERVICE the administrative efforts of the Deadline: 15 AWARD Society over a period of years, as April 2014 evidenced by dedication, effort, and contributions.

CHAPTER This award recognizes an IEEE Nomination form: Trond Clausen, ACHIEVEMENT Education Society Chapter that Please use the [email protected] AWARD provides exemplary technical standard form. activities, membership services, and Use the name of societal activities to its members. the President or Selection is based on the quality and other officer as quantity of activities and programs the sponsored by the chapter, representative of demonstration of successful outreach the chapter programs, growth in chapter Deadline: 15 membership, and interaction with April 2014 other organizations within its Section DISTINGUISHED This Award recognizes an IEEE Nomination form: Trond Clausen, CHAPTER Education Society member who has, Please use the [email protected] LEADERSHIP over a sustained period of time, made standard form. AWARD an exceptional contribution to the Deadline: 15 Society, which has manifested itself April 2014 at the Chapter level. Selection is based on leadership roles and leadership quality, which have provided an innovative, inventive, and/or important service/contribution the EdSoc's Chapter function.

STUDENT This Award recognizes an exceptional Nomination form: Kai Pan LEADERSHIP contribution to the Education Society Please use the [email protected] AWARD by a person who was an IEEE standard form. yu.edu.hk Graduate Student Member or an IEEE Deadline: 15 Student Member at the time the April 2014 exceptional contribution was made.

MCGRAW- MCGRAW-HILL/JACOB MILLMAN Not awarded Edwin C Jones, Jr HILL/JACOB AWARD recognizes an author of an since 2004 as [email protected] MILLMAN exceptional textbook relating to the McGraw-Hill has AWARD field of Electrical Engineering, as not funded this evaluated on excellence in writing, award. EdSoc is impact of the textbook on electrical not considering engineering education, and innovative award pedagogical features of the textbook. nominations at this time.