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Awards

 

Congratulations to these I&M Society members that are newly-elevated Fellows for 2013!

Salvo Baglio
University of Catania
for contributions to development of microsensors and magnetometers

Branislav Djokic
National Research Council of Canada
for contributions to precision metrology in electrical power applications

Peter Pupalaikis
LeCroy Corporation
for contributions to high-speed waveform digitizing instruments

 

Award Name
Society Career Excellence Award

What are the Requirements to Be Considered for this Award?
The I&M Career Excellence Award is awarded to recognize a lifetime career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contribution by an individual in the field of instrumentation and measurement.

Who Can Submit an Application?


Who Makes the Selection?
The recommendation of the Society Awards Subcommittee is submitted to the AdCom for approval. After AdCom's acceptance of this recommendation, the President of the Society, or a designated representative will present the Award to the recipient in an appropriate ceremony suitable for the occasion. The I&M Society President will be asked to notify and congratulate the award winner.
The Executive Assistant will request the winner's biographical information for the announcement in the Magazine. The Executive Assistant will also draft a certificate using previous certificates as a guide and will arrange with TAB that both certificate and check be sent to the Society President for the presentation. In addition, the Executive Assistant will determine the time and location of the presentation, and will contact the appropriate Conference Chair to arrange for the presentation.

The prize is a Certificate and $5,000. In addition, the recipient may be reimbursed for travel expenses, not exceeding $1000, to attend the ceremony during which the award is presented. This prize is funded by the I&M Society.

Award Name
Society Distinguished Service

What are the Requirements to Be Considered for this Award?
The I&M Society Distinguished Service Award is presented each year to an individual who has given outstanding service to the Society and to the profession. All nominees must be, or have been, members of the I&M Society.  The Society Awards Subcommittee will review the nominations, with the main criterion being service to the I&M Society.  Secondary considerations are service to the IEEE, IRE or AIEE, service to the engineering profession in general, technical accomplishments and outstanding technical leadership.

Who Can Submit an Application?
Any member of the I&M Society may make a nomination. The Society Awards Subcommittee will supply an appropriate nomination form.

Who Makes the Selection?
Attention will be called to this award, as with other I&M Society awards, through the Society Magazine. All nominations must be received by May 30th. with the selection made and the President of the Society notified by June 30th. The recommendation of the Society Awards Subcommittee is submitted to the AdCom for approval.  After AdCom's acceptance of this recommendation, the President of the Society, or a designated representative will present the Award to the recipient in an appropriate ceremony suitable for the occasion. The I&M Society President will be asked to notify and congratulate the award winner.  The Executive Director will request the winner's biographical information for the announcement in the Magazine. The Executive Director will also draft a certificate using previous certificates as a guide and will arrange with TAB that both certificate and check be sent to the Society President for the presentation. In addition, the Executive Director will determine the time and location of the presentation, and will contact the appropriate Conference Chair to arrange for the presentation.

The Award consists of $2000 and a certificate.  Also up to $1000 will be paid to the recipient for transportation to the place of the presentation.

What are the Requirements to Be Considered for this Award?
The Instrumentation and Measurement Society Award is given to an individual or group of individuals for outstanding contribution or leadership in advancing instrumentation design or measurement technique.  The selection criteria for the nominee are based on substantive documentation and tangible evidence of achievement submitted by the nominators. 

Who Can Submit an Application?
Any person with demonstrative and substantive achievement in the field of instrumentation and measurement may be nominated for the I&M Society Award.  Membership in the IEEE is NOT a prerequisite.
Invitations for nominations for this Award will be in the fall and winter issues of the I&M Magazine. Any I&M Society member in good standing may submit a nomination to the Chair of the Awards and Membership Recognition Committee on or before April 30 of each year. The Society Awards Subcommittee will supply an appropriate nomination form.
The Award need not be made if a suitable candidate is not nominated.

Who Makes the Selection?
The recommendation of the Society Awards Subcommittee is submitted to the AdCom for approval. After AdCom's acceptance of this recommendation, the President of the Society, or a designated representative will present the Award to the recipient in an appropriate ceremony suitable for the occasion. The I&M Society President will be asked to notify and congratulate the award winner.

The prize is a Certificate and $2000. In addition, the recipient may be reimbursed for travel expenses, not exceeding $1000, to attend the ceremony during which the award is presented. The honorarium and travel expenses are shared pro rata if there are multiple recipients and attendees. This prize is funded by the I&M Society.

What are the Requirements to Be Considered for this Award?
The I&M Outstanding Young Engineer Award recognizes an outstanding young I&M member who has distinguished him/herself through achievements, which are technical, of exemplary service to the I&M Society, or a combination of both early in their career. 

Who Can Submit an Application?
The nominee must not have reached their 39th birthday and must be an I&M member at the time of nomination.

Who Makes the Selection?
The recommendation of the Society Awards Subcommittee is submitted to the AdCom for approval. After AdCom's acceptance of this recommendation, the President of the Society, or a designated representative will present the Award to the recipient in an appropriate ceremony suitable for the occasion. The I&M Society President will be asked to notify and congratulate the award winner.

The Executive Director will request the winner's biographical information for the announcement in the Magazine. The Executive Director will also draft a certificate using previous certificates as a guide and will arrange with TAB that both certificate and check be sent to the Society President for the presentation. In addition, the Executive Director will determine the time and location of the presentation, and will contact the appropriate Conference Chair to arrange for the presentation.

The prize is a Certificate and $1,500. This prize is funded by the I&M Society.


Congratulations to these I&M Society members that are newly-elevated Fellows for 2012!

Rafik Goubran
Carleton University
for contributions to voice quality measurement and its applications to audio improvement

Thomas Linnenbrink
Hittite Microwave Corp.
for leadership in standards for instrumentation and measurement systems

Kenneth Tobin
Oak Ridge National Laboratory / UT-Battelle, LLC
for contributions to computer vision technology for instrumentation and measurement

Samir Trabelsi
U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
for contributions to microwave measurements on particulate materials for agriculture

Wuqiang Yang
The University of Manchester
for contributions to electrical capacitance tomography

 

2013 Joseph F Keithley Award recipient

Dylan Forrest Williams
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Boulder, CO, USA

“For the development of traceable mismatch-corrected microwave-scattering parameters and temporal waveform calibration and measurement.”

The Society presented its 2010 Society Awards at I2MTC 2011 in Binjiang, Hangzhou, China. Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2010 I&M Society Awards:

Instrumentation and Measurement Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award

The 2010 Outstanding Young Engineer Award recipient is:

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Yan Zhai
Micron Technology Corporation, USA

"For advancement in stochastic signal processing for real-time data acquisition and surveillance measurements."

 

 

Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award

The 2010 Technical Award recipient is:

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Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
University of Ottawa, Canada

"For outstanding contributions to multimedia computing."

 

Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award

The 2010 Distinguished Service Award recipient is:

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Robert C. Rassa
Raytheon, USA

"For many years of invaluable dedication to the Instrumentation and Measurement Society."

 

Instrumentation and Measurement Society Career Excellence Award

The 2010 Career Excellence Award recipient is:

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Asad M. Madni
BEI Technologies, Inc., USA

"For an extraordinary career of enlightened leadership in and pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of intelligent sensors, systems and instrumentation."

 

 

I&M Society 2011 Fellows

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Voicu Zamfir Groza
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada


"For contributions to floating-point analog-to-digital conversion."

 

 

 

 

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Sergey N. Kharkovsky
Missouri University of Science & Technology
Rolla, MO, USA

"For contributions to microwave techniques for the evaluation of materials and structures."

 

 

 

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Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay
Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand


"For development of low-cost smart sensors and sensing systems."

 

 

 

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Yong Yan
University of Kent
Farningham, United Kingdom


"For contributions to pulverized fuel flow metering and combustion flame imaging."

 

 

 

 

Instrumentation and Measurement Society Andy Chi Best Paper Award

The I&M Society Andy Chi Best Paper Award is awarded to recognize an author or authors of a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

The 2009 Andy Chi Best Paper Award recipient is:

Jenny Wirandi, Wlodek Kulesza and Jiandan Chen
System Engineering, Electrical and I&C Engineering, Sweden

For the paper “An Adaptive Quality Assessment System – Aspect of Human Factor and Measurement Uncertainty”

Nominations for IEEE Awards


The IEEE Awards Program provides peer recognition to individuals whose contributions to the art and science of electro- and information technologies worldwide have improved the quality of life.

The IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society members may be particularly interested in the following Technical Field Awards, whose nomination deadlines are 31 January 2011.  The awards typically consist of a bronze medal, certificate and cash honorarium.

IEEE Control Systems Award for outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology

IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering

IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement for outstanding contributions in electrical measurements

IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies for outstanding contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years.

IEEE Photonics Award for outstanding achievement(s) in photonics.

IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award for outstanding contribution(s) to the advancement of the design, practice, techniques, or theory in biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms including but not limited to neural networks, connectionist systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained.

IEEE Frederik Philips Award for outstanding accomplishments in the management of research and development resulting in effective innovation in the electrical and electronics industry.

Awards presented by the IEEE Board of Directors fall into several categories: The Medal of Honor, Medals, Technical Field Awards, Corporate Recognitions, Service Awards, and Prize Papers.  The IEEE also recognizes outstanding individuals through a special membership category:  IEEE Honorary Member.
Nominations are initiated by members and the public, and then reviewed by a panel of peers.  Their recommendations are submitted to the IEEE Awards Board prior to final approval by the IEEE Board of Directors.

For nomination guidelines and forms, visit http://www.ieee.org/awards.  Questions? Contact IEEE Awards Activities, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA; tel.: +1 732 562 3844; fax: +1 732 981 9019; e-mail: awards@ieee.org.

Complete List of IEEE Technical Field Awards

IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award for outstanding contributions to nanotechnology and miniaturization in the electronics arts

  • Award consists of a certificate and honorarium


IEEE Control Systems Award for outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Component Packaging Manufacturing Technology Award for meritorious contributions to, the advancement of components, electronic packaging or manufacturing technologies.

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Electromagnetics Award for outstanding contributions to electromagnetics in theory, application or education

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award for outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award for outstanding contributions to solid-state devices and technology

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award for outstanding contributions to electric transmission and distribution

  • Award consists of a certificate and honorarium


IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award for outstanding contributions in the field of consumer electronics technology.

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Internet Award for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award for outstanding contributions to information storage systems, with emphasis on computer storage systems.

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium


IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for outstanding contributions in industrial systems engineering

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement for outstanding contributions in electrical measurements

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate and cash honorarium


IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award for outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long-term significance or impact

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Award for Graduate Teaching for inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest.

  • Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium


IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award for outstanding contribution(s) to the advancement of power electronics.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies for outstanding contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits for outstanding contributions to solid-state circuits.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Frederik Philips Award for outstanding accomplishments in the management of research and development resulting in effective innovation in the electrical and electronics industry.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Photonics Award for outstanding achievement(s) in photonics.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award for outstanding contributions in the field of information processing in relation to computer science.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award for outstanding contributions to space engineering, within the fields of interest of the IEEE.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for contributions in the field of robotics and automation.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award for outstanding contribution(s) to the advancement of the design, practice, techniques, or theory in biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms including but not limited to neural networks, connectionist systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE David Sarnoff Award for exceptional contributions to electronics.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award for exceptional contributions to the development and/or advancement of standards in electrical and electronics engineering.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for outstanding contributions to communications technology.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award for inspirational teaching of undergraduate students in the fields of interest of IEEE.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium


IEEE Nikola Tesla Award for outstanding contributions to the generation and utilization of electric power.

  • Award consists of a plaque and honorarium


IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award for outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications.

  • Award consists of bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium

 

Voicu Groza
University of Ottawa
for contributions to floating-point analog-to-digital conversion

Sergey Kharkovsky
Missouri University of Science & Technology
for contributions to microwave techniques for the evaluation of materials and structures

Subhas Mukhopadhyay
Massey University
for development of low-cost smart sensors and sensing systems

Yong Yan
University of Kent
for contributions to pulverized fuel flow metering and combustion flame imaging

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