IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Awards recognize and honor major contributions to engineering and technical education. Nominations deadline is Monday, 4 May 2020. See below for more details.
Types of awards
Awards are given for:
- Meritorious Achievement in Accreditation Activities
- Meritorious Achievement in Continuing Education
- Meritorious Achievement in Outreach and Informal Education
- Meritorious Achievement Award in Pre-University Education
- Major Education Innovation
- Meritorious Service to IEEE EAB
- Educational Activities Board (EAB) / Standards Association (SA) Board of Governors Standards Education Award
- Employer Professional Development
- Section Professional Development
- Society/Council Professional Development
Scholarship/Fellowship:
- IEEE Life Members Graduate Study Fellowship in Electrical Engineering
- The Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Scholarship
IEEE-HKN Awards and Recognitions:
Program timeline
Award nominations and scholarship applications are accepted until Monday, 4 May 2020.
The EAB Awards Nomination forms are available:
- IEEE Educational Activities Board Award Nominations
- IEEE Educational Activities Board Scholarship/Fellowship Applications
- IEEE-HKN Nominations
Should you have any questions, please contact eab-awards@ieee.org.
The nominator or scholarship applicant is responsible for ensuring that all materials are submitted in time to meet the deadline. This includes both the nomination or scholarship application form and all the reference forms required.
Nominator requirements
Current members of the IEEE EAB, IEEE-HKN-BOG, or members of the IEEE professional staff, may not be nominators, recipients, or endorsers of EAB or IEEE-HKN Awards, unless otherwise specified. Current members of the IEEE EAB Awards and Recognition Committee (ARC), IEEE Life Members Committee (LMC), trustees and officers of the Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Graduate Fund or the IEEE-HKN Awards & Recognition Committee may not be nominators, recipients, or endorsers of awards associated with their respective committees, unless otherwise specified.
As specified in IEEE Policy 4.4.H, Eligibility and Process Limitations, individuals serving on any board or committee involved at any stage of the recipient selection or approval process for an award shall be ineligible to receive, or act as a nominator or reference for that award. This conflict of interest limitation shall apply to all awards given by the IEEE or any of its organizational units.
Self-nominations will not be accepted, unless otherwise noted.
Nominations
Self-nominations are not accepted for any EAB Award. However, for the scholarships listed above, self-nominations/applications are acceptable. An individual can only serve as a nominator or reference for one award per category. For most EAB Awards, the nominator does not need to be an IEEE member.
Multiple Award Recipients
Multiple Award Recipients are defined as a group of three or fewer people (not a team) working on the same contribution, each individual having separate but valuable contributions.
Multiple recipients may have the same citation, or different citations depending on their contributions. Unless otherwise specified, all EAB Awards may be awarded to an individual, multiple recipients, or a team. In the event of multiple recipients, travel will be provided for all to attend the EAB Award Presentation Ceremony in the year in which the award is given.
Recipients will receive awards and honorariums, where applicable, as specified for each award.
Team awards
In the event of an award going to a team, when recipients are required to be IEEE members, i.e., Accreditation, Continuing Education, Educational Innovation, All members of the team are required to be IEEE members. Travel will be provided for one recipient only. Honorarium is to be split equally among the team members. Only one honorarium for any one award will be given.
Please see the individual award pages for any exceptions.
References
The nominator is responsible for providing a minimum of three and a maximum of five people to serve as references for an award. At least two references need to be IEEE members. This applies to most awards, except where noted on the individual awards pages.
Additional information on references can be found on the FAQ page.
