Straw Poll for Millenium Medal
Dear SEC voting members:
In order to help select the 802 candidates for the millinium medals, I would like to conduct a straw poll of the SEC voting members from the below list of candidates who have received nominations, listed alphabetically.
Please choose four names (not ranked) and send them ONLY TO ME by 17August.
I will then ask the four top candidates to prepare an application and submit to IEEE-SA.
Thanks,
--Paul Nikolich
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1) Jim Carlo
2) Bob Donnan
3) Maris Graube
4) Howard Frazier
5) Howard Johnson
6) David Law
7) Don Loughry
8) Mick Seaman
9) Pat Thaler
10) Geoff Thompson
Millennium Medal IEEE-SA Criteria
Context: At the beginning of the third millennium give recognition to 3000 individuals for their professional achievements worthy of recognition for significant impact leading up to and including the new millennium.
Millennium medals are to be awarded to those individuals for their outstanding contributions to the profession and to society in general. The medals are to be awarded by Societies, Sections, and major boards of which the IEEE-SA is one such entity. Each major board will recognize outstanding individuals based on outstanding contributions to that board and its major programs and activities. A recipient must be a member of the IEEE but does not have to be a member of the IEEE-SASB or the IEEE-SA BoG. We should identify and recognize individuals whose contributions helped to bring in and support the new millennium.
Two categories of nominees will be considered:
1) Nominees recognized for their development of standard(s) having a major impact on industry. This could be for a single standard or a family of standards.
2) Nominees recognized for their contributions to the development or establishment of management infrastructure having significant impact on industry now or in the next millennium. This could be for a new major infrastructure or for major improvements and evolution of an existing infrastructure.