RAB Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award

In memory of Dr. Wilson, the Regional Activities Board instituted the RAB Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award in 1996.

Dr. Larry K. Wilson joined the IEEE (then the IRE) as a student and served as Branch Chairperson at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Later he served as Branch Counselor at Vanderbilt University where he was a professor of electrical engineering since 1964. As he moved up the IEEE echelon, eventually becoming the 1980-81 Vice President of Regional Activities, students were always an important part of his work.

Dr. Wilson strongly supported student activities through his involvement in the IEEE and his career. As Vice-President of Regional Activities, he encouraged support of the Student Professional Awareness Conference (S-PAC) concept and was instrumental in obtaining approval for POTENTIALS magazine. He died of cancer in June 1983, at age 49. This award will assure that Dr. Wilson's support of IEEE Student Activities will long be remembered.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Nominate the student who has significantly contributed to IEEE student activities in your Region, Section, Student Branch or Student Branch Chapter.

Winners will receive an Award Plaque and three years free IEEE membership.

AWARD PURPOSE: Recognize annually, in each Region of the IEEE, the student most responsible for an extraordinary accomplishment associated with IEEE student activities. The value of a pattern of dedicated, ongoing service to a branch is certainly recognized. This award is designed to reward a particular event or product of IEEE activities.

NOMINATION PROCEDURE: The student most responsible for a worthy accomplishment may be nominated by a Branch Counselor, Section Chairperson, or Section SAC Chairperson. The nominator(s) shall complete the attached nomination form. Nominations should be forward to the Regional Student Activities Chairperson (RSAC) who will distribute them to the judging committee.

ELIGIBILITY: Nominees must be student members of the IEEE at the time of the accomplishment. The incumbent Regional Student Representative is ineligible.

JUDGING: The nominations will be judged by a committee composed of the Regional Director, the Regional Student Activities Chairperson (RSAC), and the Regional Student Representative (RSR), or by an existing Regional Awards and Recognition Committee in consultation with the RSR and RSAC.

This regional committee will be responsible for establishing guidelines for judging, while maintaining fairness, objectivity, and high standards. If no nominations of sufficient stature are made, no award will be given for that year. Only one award per region will be presented each year.

SELECTION CRITERIA:Each student nominee will be judged primarily on the impact of their accomplishment on the quality of student activities within the Region and the Institute as a whole. Consideration should be given also to past activities and leadership abilities of the nominee.

NOMINATION DEADLINE:

Region 1,2,3,4,5,6 - January 31
Regions 7,8 - March 31
Region 9 - January 31
Region 10 - February 28

SEND NOMINATIONS TO: Regional Student Activities Committee Chair (RSAC).

ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE: By Regional Directors approximately two months after nomination deadline at an appropriate Regional occasion. Results will be published Institute-wide at the earliest opportunity.

For additional information, please contact your Regional Student Activities Committee Chair (RSAC), Regional Student Representative (RSR) or IEEE Student Services .