To recognize candidates that have the unique capability of conceiving and organizing innovative and successful events in the Fields of Interest of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.
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$1,000 USD (shared equally between multiple winners) and a frame certificate. Up to $1,500 USD to attend the award ceremony can be authorized by the AESS President.
Funded by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
At a convenient IEEE AESS conference
Factors that will be considered are: innovation in content and/or organizational approach; constructively bringing together industry, academia and government; visionary events that lead to new AESS services and/or advances in the fields; or those that advance AESS on a global basis; and those for which the candidate grows capability over multiple events and time.
The nominee shall be the proponent and/or the organizer of a pattern, or a focused single event, in AESS’s Fields of Interest. The candidate does not have to be an IEEE or AESS member; however, the event must qualify as one approved by the AESS Board of Governors to be within its established fields of interest. Current voting members of the AESS Board of Governors or current members of the Award Committee are ineligible for this award.
As of January 2022, this award is no longer accepting nominations.
2021
For innovation within IEEE Education, Short Courses, Awards and Mentoring Processes
2020
For contributions to metrology for aerospace applications
2019
For leadership as General Chairman of the successful 2015 IEEE International Radar Conference
2018
For Leading the Radar Systems Panel Education Committee and Founding the Radar Summer School Series
2017
For Organizing Conferences, Workshops, and Lectures, World-Wide Teaching Radar Concepts, Especially to Young Engineers