Every year, we select the top 20% or fewer of our Associate Editors as Outstanding Associate Editors, whom we recognize at the IEEE I²MTC conference's award ceremony. These are the AEs that have demonstrated outstanding performance in terms of their timeliness, the number of papers handled, and the quality of their work. To be eligible, an AE must have served on the editorial board for more than 1 year as of December 31 of the year for which the award is given.

In addition to receiving a certificate and a memento, an Outstanding AE also receives four (4) free OJIM overlength pages, which can be applied against the AE's OJIM paper(s) accepted within 2 years of receiving the award.

To use your free overlength pages, please wait until IEEE or CopyrightClearance informs you by email that there are charges. Then, simply forward that email to OJIM's EiC. Please do not contact IEEE or its reprints department yourself: it will only delay your award.