Through its awards program, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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recognizes contributions that advance the fields of interest to the IEEE. For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards Program has paid tribute to technical professionals whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society and the engineering profession. The IEEE Medals and IEEE Technical Field Awards are institution-level awards. They are considered more prestigious than IEEE Society level awards and are administered by IEEE Awards Board. Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors approved the winners of these prestigious medals and awards at their annual board meeting. An IEEE Honors Ceremony is organized and held in New York each year to present the medals and awards to the recipients.
Funds for the awards program, other than those provided by corporate sponsors for some awards, are administered by the
IEEE Foundation.
IEEE Medals
* IEEE top medal and highest honor
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IEEE Medal of Honor
The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It has been awarded since 1917, and is presented to an individual or team of up to three who have made exceptional contri ...
* Medals not specific to a technology field
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IEEE Edison Medal
The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts." It is the oldest medal in this fi ...
(IEEE's principal medal for a meritorious career)
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IEEE Founders Medal (for leadership, planning, and administration)
** IEEE
Mildred Dresselhaus Medal (for carbon-based materials research)
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IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
* Medals in specific technology areas
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IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal (for computing)
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IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring ''"exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering"'' in the field of telecommunications. The medal is one of the highest honors awarded by the Instit ...
(for telecommunications engineering)
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IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies
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IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (for
information theory
Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification (science), quantification, Data storage, storage, and telecommunications, communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, ...
and
coding)
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IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology
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IEEE Nick Holonyak, Jr. Medal for Semiconductor Optoelectronic Technologies
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IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (for
signal processing
Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, Scalar potential, potential fields, Seismic tomograph ...
)
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IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal
The IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal is an award given by the IEEE and Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK. It is named after James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), who made fundamental contributions to the classical theory of electromagnetic rad ...
(for electronics and telecommunications)
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IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
In 2002, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) added a new award to its already existing program of awards. Each year, one or more nominees are honored with a medal in the name of Jun-ichi Nishizawa, considered to be the ' ...
(for materials and device sciences)
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IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal (for
microelectronics
Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre ...
)
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IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications
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IEEE Medal in Power Engineering
Through its awards program, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recognizes contributions that advance the fields of interest to the IEEE. For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards Program has paid tribute to technical professionals w ...
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IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
Through its awards program, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recognizes contributions that advance the fields of interest to the IEEE. For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards Program has paid tribute to technical professionals w ...
(for
systems engineering
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their Enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering uti ...
)
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IEEE John von Neumann Medal
The IEEE John von Neumann Medal was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1990 and may be presented annually "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology." The achievements may be theoretical, technological, or ...
(for
computer
A computer is a machine that can be Computer programming, programmed to automatically Execution (computing), carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (''computation''). Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic set ...
-related technology)
* Discontinued medal programs
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IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal The IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal was a science award presented by the IEEE for outstanding achievements in the field of electromagnetic waves. The medal was named in honour of German physicist Heinrich Hertz, and was first proposed in 1986 by IEEE Regi ...
(last awarded in 2001)
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IEEE Lamme Medal
The initially called AIEE Lamme Medal was established in 1924 by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) to recognize members for 'meritorious achievement in the development of electrical apparatus or machinery.' The medal was named i ...
(last awarded in 2002)
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IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence
The IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence was an award presented by the IEEE to recognize exceptional achievements in application engineering in the technical disciplines of the IEEE, for the benefit of the public and the engineering profession. ...
(last awarded in 2004)
IEEE Technical field awards
* Current technical field awards
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IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award
The IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE given annually for outstanding contributions to the field of biomedical engineering. It was established in 2010.
The award is sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Med ...
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IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award
The IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award is an award is presented for outstanding contributions to nanotechnology and miniaturization in the electronics arts. It may be presented to an individual or a team of up to three. The award was established in 1975 b ...
(for
nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). At this scale, commonly known as the nanoscale, surface area and quantum mechanical effects become important in describing propertie ...
and miniaturization)
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IEEE Control Systems Award
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IEEE Electromagnetics Award
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IEEE Rao R. Tummala Electronics Packaging Award
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IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing
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IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
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IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award (for
solid-state device
Solid-state electronics are semiconductor electronics: electronic equipment that use semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits (ICs). The term is also used as an adjective for devices in which semiconductor elect ...
s)
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IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
The IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award is a Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers#Technical field awards, Technical Field Award of the IEEE given for outstanding contributions to Consumer electronics, consumer electronic ...
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IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
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IEEE Internet Award
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IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award (for
industrial systems engineering)
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IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award (for
electronic circuits
An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors and diodes, connected by conductive wires or traces through which electric current can flow. It is a type of electric ...
and
systems
A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and is exp ...
)
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IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
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IEEE Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award
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IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
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IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award
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IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award (for emerging technologies)
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IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits
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IEEE Frederik Philips Award (for management of
research and development
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)
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IEEE Photonics Award
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Award
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IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (for biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms such as
neural networks
A neural network is a group of interconnected units called neurons that send signals to one another. Neurons can be either Cell (biology), biological cells or signal pathways. While individual neurons are simple, many of them together in a netwo ...
)
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IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award (for
standardization
Standardization (American English) or standardisation (British English) is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards organiza ...
)
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IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award (for nuclear and plasma engineering)
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IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (for communications technology)
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IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
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IEEE Nikola Tesla Award (for
power
Power may refer to:
Common meanings
* Power (physics), meaning "rate of doing work"
** Engine power, the power put out by an engine
** Electric power, a type of energy
* Power (social and political), the ability to influence people or events
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technology)
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IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (for technologies holding the promise of innovative applications)
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IEEE Transportation Technologies Award
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IEEE Glenn F. Knoll Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding Achievement Award
**IEEE Plasma Science and Applications (PSAC) Award
* Discontinued technical field awards
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IEEE David Sarnoff Award (for electronics, last awarded in 2016)
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IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (for information processing systems in computer science, last awarded in 2012)
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IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award (for
space engineering, last awarded in 2012)
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IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award (last awarded in 2010)
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IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award (last awarded in 2015)
IEEE-level paper prizes
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IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award
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IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award
Other IEEE-level recognitions
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IEEE Haraden Pratt Award (for service to IEEE)
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IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award (for service to IEEE)
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IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition
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IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition (also known as
IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award, last awarded in 2016)
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IEEE Honorary Membership
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Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize
Scholarships
* IEEE Life Members Graduate Study Fellowship in Electrical Engineering was established by the IEEE in 2000. The fellowship is awarded annually to a first year, full-time graduate student obtaining their masters for work in the area of electrical engineering, at an engineering school/program of recognized standing worldwide.
* IEEE Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Graduate Scholarship was established by the IRE in 1939 to commemorate
Charles Legeyt Fortescue's contributions to electrical engineering. The scholarship is awarded for one year of full-time graduate work obtaining their masters in electrical engineering an ANE engineering school of recognized standing in the United States.
Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Graduate Scholarship
Retrieved on 2010-01-23.
Awards at the society and technical council level
The IEEE societies (of which there are 39 as of June 2020) and IEEE technical councils (seven as of June 2020) also have their own award programs. These include recognizing volunteers at the society technical committee levels and conference levels, for service and for technical work. However, IEEE institution level awards are above IEEE societies and technical council level awards, with higher standards, recognition, and prestige.
Student activities
IEEE offers many student awards, competitions and other opportunities for students to become actively involved.
* IEEEXtreme Programming Competition
* IEEEmadC
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IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines.
The IEEE ...