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:
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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, e.c.jones@ieee.org. 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
IEEE WILLIAM
E. SAYLE
AWARD FOR
ACHIEVEMENT
IN EDUCATION
DISTINGUISHED
MEMBER
AWARD
HEWLETTPACKARD/HAR
RIETT B. RIGAS
AWARD
MAC VAN
VALKENBURG
EARLY CAREER
TEACHING
AWARD
Award Description
This Award 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.
This 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.
This 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 ABETaccredited engineering program, with
teaching and/or research
specialization in electrical/computer
engineering.
This 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.
Forms and Due
Date
Nomination form:
Please use the
standard form.
Deadline:
15
April 2014
Committee Chair
Susan Conry
conry@clarkson.edu
Nomination form:
Please use the
standard form.
Deadline: 15
April 2014
Victor Nelson
nelsovp@auburn.edu
Nomination form:
Please use the
standard form.
Deadline: 15
April 2014
Joanne Bechta-Dugan
jbd@virginia.edu
Nomination form:
Please use the
standard form.
Deadline: 15
April 2014
Seyed Hossein
Mousavinezhad,
hossein.mousavinezhad@i
eee.org
EDWIN C.
JONES JR.
MERITORIOUS
SERVICE
AWARD
This 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.
Nomination form:
Please use the
standard form.
Deadline: 15
April 2014
Susan Lord
slord@sandiego.edu
CHAPTER
ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD
This award recognizes an IEEE
Education Society Chapter that
provides exemplary technical
activities, membership services, and
societal activities to its members.
Selection is based on the quality and
quantity of activities and programs
sponsored by the chapter,
demonstration of successful outreach
programs, growth in chapter
membership, and interaction with
other organizations within its Section
This 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.
This Award recognizes an exceptional
contribution to the Education Society
by a person who was an IEEE
Graduate Student Member or an IEEE
Student Member at the time the
exceptional contribution was made.
Nomination form:
Please use the
standard form.
Use the name of
the President or
other officer as
the
representative of
the chapter
Deadline: 15
April 2014
Trond Clausen,
trond.clausen@ieee.org
Nomination form:
Please use the
standard form.
Deadline: 15
April 2014
Trond Clausen,
trond.clausen@ieee.org
Nomination form:
Please use the
standard form.
Deadline: 15
April 2014
Kai Pan
Markkp.mark@alumni.cit
yu.edu.hk
MCGRAW-HILL/JACOB MILLMAN
AWARD recognizes an author of an
exceptional textbook relating to the
field of Electrical Engineering, as
evaluated on excellence in writing,
impact of the textbook on electrical
engineering education, and innovative
pedagogical features of the textbook.
Not awarded
since 2004 as
McGraw-Hill has
not funded this
award. EdSoc is
not considering
award
nominations at
this time.
Edwin C Jones, Jr
e.c.jones@ieee.org
DISTINGUISHED
CHAPTER
LEADERSHIP
AWARD
STUDENT
LEADERSHIP
AWARD
MCGRAWHILL/JACOB
MILLMAN
AWARD