AWARDS AND RECOGNITION PROGRAM | 
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The awards and recognition program of the Member and Geographic Activities Board (MGA) is designed to promote, recognize and reward excellence in the MGA operations and IEEE Geographic Unit Activities (Regions, Geographic Councils and Areas, Sections, Chapters, Student Branches, and Student Branch Chapters).
2008 MGA Award Recipients Announced!
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At its 15 November 2008 meeting, the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board approved the 2008 MGA Award recipients listed below. The MGA Awards and Recognition Committee received many nominations recognizing the accomplishments of candidates whose contributions encompass the vision, mission and goals of MGA. On behalf of the MGA Board and the MGA Awards and Recognitions Committee, we thank all the members who took their time to submit the nominations.
MGA Innovation Award
Rami Abielmona, Ottawa Section “For exemplary contributions and energetic leadership towards increasing the participation in the IEEE Ottawa Section Robotics Competition, and actively engaging the local students." Julian Bussgang, Boston Section "For his dedication to advancing the goals of IEEE through activities that support IEEE Life Members." Jorge Him-Cassanova, Panama Section "For his significant contributions in the development of the membership and activities of the IEEE Council of Central America and the Panama Section Ramalatha Marimuthu, Madras Section “For her dedicated mentoring of IEEE students and encouraging them to focus their efforts towards contributions to benefit humanity.” Ahmed Osama Mikkawi, Egypt Section “For his outstanding efforts in the GOLD and Women in Engineering programs for fostering inspiration among IEEE members.” Ravi Todi, Mid-Hudson Section “For his outstanding leadership and sustaining contributions to IEEE across local and technical activities.” Nirwan Ansari, North Jersey Section “For his sustained leadership and tireless efforts to increase and maintain continuous engagement of the IEEE North Jersey Section members.” Anader Benyamin-Seeyar, Montreal Section “For his dedicated leadership and significant contributions to serve IEEE and the engineering profession through continuous engagement efforts in the Montreal Section.” Tania Quiel, Panama Section “For her leadership and commitment to promoting IEEE membership and activities throughout Region 9.”
Irena Atov, Victorian Section “For her organization and leadership of the implementation of GOLD track programs at IEEE conferences, and the GOLD Academic Portal on the IEEE Job Site.” Megha Joshi, Uttar Pradesh Section “For outstanding contributions to the Student Transition Project and STEP (Student Transition & Elevation Partnership) program.” Yasuharu Ohgoe, Tokyo Section “For his strong leadership in planning and organizing the inaugural GOLD Summit 2008.” Adrian Pais, Benelux Section “For extraordinary leadership and valuable contributions to the development of the IEEE GOLDRush newsletter.” Mini S. Thomas, Delhi Section Prijoe P. Komattu, Madras Section S. Gopakumar, Kerala Section “For their inspirational development of the Global Integrated Network of IEEE (GINI) which will provide increased value of IEEE membership to the students of Region 10.” MGA Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award Marcelo Mota, Toronto Section “For 20 years of IEEE volunteerism, and significant contributions to the development and promotion of global activities and services to IEEE members.” |
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