Engineering Week Awards

Engineering Week is approaching fast and our chapter members have a lot of accomplishments that are worthy of acknowledgement. We have a lots of talent in our engineering society; please enter in this competition and let’s get credit for what you have done! Basic information is below and I would be happy to forward to you all the details upon request.

The Engineers Week Committee plans to make awards in eight categories this year. The categories for the 2010 Engineers’ Week Awards are:

1. Lifetime Achievement in Engineering Award
2. Leadership Excellence
3. Technical Excellence
4. Young Engineer of the Year
5. Outstanding Organization of the Year – Public Sector
6. Outstanding Small Organization of the Year – Private Sector (Less than or equal to 100 Employees)
7. Outstanding Large Organization of the Year – Private Sector (More than 100 Employees)
8. Outstanding Engineering Project of the Year

Each nomination will be accomplished by submitting a completed form for one or more of the eight categories. Each nomination package must contain a synopsis providing details that relate information on the nominating form to the criteria (available upon request), and must be no longer than 3 pages of text plus one cover page (total of 4 pages). NOTE: The Cover Page is OPTIONAL and may include the answers to questions 1-4 and any pictures or graphics desired. Please do not include responses to other questions on the cover page, as it is the intent to limit the amount of text that needs to be reviewed. Consider this a cover page of a proposal.

After the Awards Committee Chairperson collects all nominations, the process will continue as follows:

An initial check for incomplete information and violations of nomination rules will be performed.

The nominations will then be judged. The judging committee will consist of a representative cross section of the societies and engineering disciplines.

Each member of the judging committee will be permitted to make a subjective evaluation and cast his or her vote accordingly.

It should be noted that the committee is particularly interested in recognizing recent accomplishments.

The deadline for accepting nominations is December 15, 2009.

If an insufficient number of nominations are made for a particular award category, the Committee may elect not to make the award. In this case, the nominating societies will be informed and the nominations returned.

If you have any questions, or would like more information, please contact me at firouzk@gmail.com.