R10 Life Member Outstanding Volunteer Award

Introduction

  • IEEE Region 10 (R10) encourages Life Members to remain active in IEEE activities (Life Members are those whose age plus IEEE membership equals to 100 or more). The award is to recognize contributions of R10 LMs to R10 related activities in various OUs (Region, Council, Section, Chapter, Affinity Group, MGA etc.) as Life members.
  • To accord recognition to such dedicated & talented Life Members, IEEE Region 10 has launched the R 10 Outstanding Life Member Award to keep these members motivated. It recognises Life Members who have made substantial contribution to R10 activities including those in Region, Council, Section, Chapter, Affinity Group MGA etc.) and continue to do so even now.
  • The award will be conferred upon one Life Member each year.
  • If evaluation committee finds more than one outstanding LM during any year, Committee may consider a runner up that year & Award a Certificate.

Purpose

  • The Region 10 Outstanding Life Member Award aims to encourage the active Life Members and contributions of individuals at Section / Council / Region / MGA level.

Scope

  • Based on the overall assessment of the nominated individual, R10 Outstanding Life Member Award Committee will select the winner(s) each year. If no candidate is found to be suitable in any year, no award will be given in that category for the contest year.

Eligibility

  1. Life Members at the time of Nomination must be an IEEE Member for minimum 30 years including minimum 3 years as Life Member.
  2. Life Member at the time of nomination must be active at Section / Council / Region / MGA level.
  3. The candidate receives no remuneration for his/her volunteer work for the Section / Council / Region except reimbursement of expenses incurred in carrying out the volunteer work.
  4. The Award is to be given only once to a Life Member.

Nomination Conditions

  1. The nominee should be a Life Member (M, SM or F grade) and should be residing in the geographical boundaries of IEEE Region 10.
  2. Any IEEE member in the Region can nominate a potential LM candidate for the award.
  3. Self-nominations are not permitted.
  4. The completed nomination form should be sent to the LMAG Chair by the nominator duly endorsed by local Section Chair as pdf before the mentioned deadline for submission to R 10 LM Committee Chair.

Basis of Selection

  • Selection shall be made on the basis of following Criterion:
    1. Nominee must be a Life Member at the time of Nomination and an IEEE Member for minimum 30 years including minimum 3 years as an active Life Member.
    2. Nominee, a Life Member must have been active at Section / Council / Region / MGA level and contributed significantly as Life Member to R10 and have positive impact. (Contribution as non-LM will not be considered for this Award).
    3. Length of membership beyond 30 years will have additional weightage for each years.
    4. Length of membership beyond 30 years will have additional weightage for each years.

Selection Committee

  • The R10 outstanding Life Member Award selection committee is composed of at 3 to 5 members, who are nominated by the Chair R10 Life Member committee and to be headed by the Life Member Committee Chair. The award selection committee reserves the right to present no award if the committee is not satisfied with the standard or quality of entries received. The decision of the award selection committee, as approved by the R10 Director, is final.

Schedule

  • Call for Nominations:21 March 2022
  • Nomination deadline: 20 May 2022
  • Evaluation period: 1 June to 31 July 2022
  • Recipient Notified: By 30 September 2022

Awards Instrument

  • A plaque will be awarded to the winner.
  • For runner-up a certificate shall be presented.

Presentation

  • Award will be presented to the attending Section Chair or representative at the R10 Annual General Meeting. Section shall then arrange to present the award to the award recipient(s) at an appropriate local Section event/ occasion.

Record/ Notification

  • R10 Awards & Recognition Committee Chair will make an official result announcement to the Section/ Council Chairs and Secretaries, and also maintain a record of award recipients on the R10 Website. IEEE R10 Life Member Committee Chair will notify the result of selection by e-mail to individual award recipient.

Nomination Form: https://www.ieeer10.org/awards-recognition-committee/

Submit all nomination forms to: