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would like to begin this article by thanking our outgoing NPSS Awards
Chairman, Igor Alexeff. Igor did a superb job over the last 4 years.
Under Igor’s leadership, there has been an awardee for every
NPSS award. That may sound easy, but it’s a fair amount of
work to prepare a nomination and get the necessary references to
the Awards Committee by the 15th of May.
As part of the transfer of duties, Igor prepared an outline of the
IEEE NPSS Award Process. This is the process for Society-level awards
like the Merit, Shea, Early Achievement, etc. For these awards,
the IEEE prepares plaques, certificates, and checks that are mailed
directly to the awardee. That information and more is included in
the NPSS Awards Process that follows:
1. Awards applications received by May 15.
2. Packages duplicated and mailed to members of awards committee.
3. Rankings received back from the committee. A spread sheet is
prepared.
4. Awardees decided by the Awards Committee following extensive
discussions.
5. For award winners, both nominators and nominees are notified
of the decision of the committee. If a candidate is unsuccessful,
only the nominator is notified of the decision.
6. Proposed citations on plaques and certificates checked for accuracy.
7. Awardees names submitted to IEEE. Liz Parascondola (E.Parascondola@ieee.org)
prepares certificates and plaques and Rosanne Loyal (r.loyal@ieee.org)
prepares checks for Society-level awards.
9. Rosanne Loyal sends out Income Tax Forms to awardees. Check cannot
be sent out until signed Income Tax Form is returned by awardee.
10. The plaques, certificates, and checks are mailed directly to
the awardee to avoid possible loss. If a presentation is desired
at a given meeting, the nominator or the awardee is responsible
for bringing the plaque for photo opportunities. Since the Awards
Committee doesn’t decide award recipients until the fall,
awards are generally presented at meetings during the subsequent
year. For example, most 2007 awardees will receive their plaques
at conferences of their choice held during 2008. However, there
is an option to have both the year awarded and the year presented
printed on the plaques and the certificates.
11. Names, biographies, citations and photos of the awardees are
submitted to the NPSS newsletter by the awardees. Send the material
to amlarsen@slac.stanford.edu.
The process for choosing winners of Technical Committee Awards,
e.g., Radiation Effects Award, Plasma Science and Applications Award,
Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award, etc., is the
responsibility of the respective Technical Committee. IEEE is available
to prepare plaques, certificates, and checks for these award winners
too. Once again, the contacts are Liz Parascondola for plaques and
certificates and Rosanne Loyal for checks.
NPSS Awards are very competitive. There have been several excellent
candidates for each award. So, please keep the nominations coming.
Our NPSS awardees are of the highest caliber. IEEE NPSS Awardees
for 2006 are: Charles Melcher for the NPSS Merit Award; Paul Dressendorfer
for the NPSS Shea Award; John Luginsland for the NPSS Early Achievement
Award; Xin Dai, Carrie Hruska, Randolf McKinley, and Xing Zhou for
NPSS Graduate Student Awards.
Igor and I would both like to thank the members of last year’s
Awards Committee for their hard work and dedication. They are Bill
Moses, Ray Larsen, and Hal Flescher.
Peter S. Winokur, Chair, NPSS Awards Committee, can be reached
at the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Washington, DC;
Phone: +1 202 694-7090; E-mail: p.winokur@ieee.org.
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