iNEER AWARDS: PROCESS, CRITERIA, AND FORMAT

Introduction

The iNEER Board presents a number of awards each year to recognize highly qualified individuals and educational partnerships for their contributions to advancing international understanding and cooperation in engineering education and research. Awards are based on nominations by members of iNEER and are reviewed by an international committee appointed by the Board. Awards, in the form of engraved plaques, are presented at a scheduled iNEER event. Award recipients must be present in person to receive the awards.

Award Categories

There are three categories of awards: (1) Leadership Award; (2) Achievement Award; and (3) Recognition Award. In any particular year iNEER may give more than one award in each category, or no award.

Broadly defined criteria and guidelines for selection of each award are given below.

Leadership Award

This is the highest level of award given by iNEER. This award is presented to an individual or educational partnership for visionary leadership, for significant innovations, and for producing broad, long-lasting, positive impacts on international engineering education and research. The ideas and/or work for which such a leader is recognized with this award will be of an over-arching nature with global impact.

Achievement Award

The second highest honor given by iNEER, this award is given to an individual or educational partnership for innovations and exemplary, sustained, superior accomplishments in promoting international cooperation in engineering education that benefit a number of institutions in several regions of the world.

Recognition Award

This award recognizes an individual or educational partnership for innovations and sustained, dedicated, and exemplary contributions to international cooperation in engineering education and research that have led to close interaction between institutions in two or more nations.

Nomination Process

Nominations may be submitted upon solicitation by the iNEER Secretariat. Any member of the iNEER community is eligible to nominate another member for any category of award. All nominations must be submitted to the iNEER Secretary-General by the due date specified in the solicitation.

Nominees must be individuals or educational partnerships whose tangible innovative contributions (as opposed to simply being someone in a position involved with international cooperation, as an example) in international cooperation are instrumental in creating new bridges between and among nations where none existed before.

Nominations are evaluated by the Awards Committee comprised of international experts in engineering education. Awards recommendations are forwarded to the iNEER Board which makes the final decision.

To receive an award, the awardee must be present (as a regular attendee that pays all fees) at the iNEER event where the award will be presented.

All nominations must be submitted using MS Word format by e-mail (please specify “NOMINATION” as the subject) to:

Secretary-General

iNEER

E-mail: ineer@ineer.org

and,

Chair, 2011 Awards Committee

iNEER

E-mail: v.ilic@uws.ac.edu

Nomination Format

The following format should be strictly followed, limiting the total length to no more than three (3) pages, excluding reference letters and the nominee’s curriculum vitae. Incomplete nomination packages will not be considered. Nominators may make use of the supplied Word file (see the link at the end of this page) when preparing the nomination dossier, or may create their own files that follow the format shown below.

• Nominator information: name, title, affiliation, address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Ideally, the nominator should not be someone from the same institution as the nominee.
• Nominee information: name, title, affiliation, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
• Category of award (Leadership, Achievement, or Recognition).
• Suggested citation for the award, 15 words or less. Example: “For Innovations and Accomplishments in Distance and Flexible Learning Methodologies for Engineering Education”. (Also see the dossiers of past award recipients by following the link at the end of this page.)
• Statement by nominator as to whether, to his/her knowledge, the nominee will be present at the iNEER event in person to receive the award if it is awarded to him/her.
• Summary of Accomplishments of Nominee (Reasons for Nomination).
• Two letters of support, preferably about one page each. Ideally, letters of support should come from individuals who are not affiliated with the same institution as the nominee.
• A copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae.