New Faces of Engineering 2012

A Recognition Program for Engineers Week 2012

The New Faces of Engineering program highlights the vitality, diversity and rich contributions of engineers 30 or younger. It is sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation, a coalition of engineering societies, major corporations and government agencies. IEEE-USA has participated since the program began in 2003.

Objectives

The campaign is designed to enhance and improve the image of engineering by:

• Putting faces to what has often been referred to as “the stealth profession”.
• Showing a group of young, diverse and talented engineers, thereby portraying engineering as an exciting profession open to everyone.
• Providing both stimulation and incentive for college engineering students to explore the variety of career options available to them with their engineering degrees, as well as encouraging high school students to study engineering in college.
• Helping engineering students understand they are part of a global profession.

Eligibility Criteria

• Engineers 30 or younger as of 31 December 2011 are eligible.
• Nominees must have a degree in engineering from a recognized U.S. college or university, or from an equivalent international educational institution. Degrees in engineering technology, science, computer science, and similar disciplines do not qualify; a degree in computer engineering is acceptable.
• Nominees must be a member in good standing of a sponsoring Engineers Week (EWeek) partner.
• Self-nominations are not allowed.

IEEE Selection Criteria

• An ad hoc committee of IEEE members selects the IEEE/IEEE-USA New Face of Engineering, as well as up to four runner-up engineers.
• The committee evaluates nominees based on their educational attainment and engineering achievements in design, research, development, test, manufacturing or management.
• Nominees are also judged on their participation and accomplishments in professional and technical society activities. Particular consideration is given to work (e.g. volunteering, publishing, conference presentations) in IEEE technical societies.

Nomination Process

• Nominations can only be submitted through the designated contact at the EWeek sponsoring societies and government agency partners. All nominees must submit their applications to these societies, not to Eweek headquarters.
• Applications must be complete and must be submitted electronically by sponsoring Eweek societies on the nomination form provided. Incomplete nominations may delay processing or cause a nomination not to be considered.
• Complete nominations must be submitted to Sharon Richardson, s.richardson@ieee.org by 21 October 2011.

Recognition

IEEE selects one individual to be featured with the New Faces from other participating societies and government agencies in a full-page ad in USA Today during Eweek, 19-25 February 2012. Each photo will be captioned with the engineer’s name, sponsor, employer and a brief statement of the individual’s accomplishments.

The National Engineers Week Foundation will profile each of the top individuals at www.eweek.org and at www.discoverengineering.org, the EWeek Web site for middle school students.

The engineering trade press will be targeted for feature stories on the top individuals. Media contacts provided by nominees will also be sent information.

Up to four additional engineers will be publicized on the EWeek Web site and promoted by their sponsoring engineering society.

The top candidates may participate in an e-mail and/or online question and answer discussion forum with engineering undergraduates globally at a future event. Candidates are asked to list languages in which they are fluent.

Where are they now?

Click here to read about IEEE's 2011 New Face, Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan.

Click here to read about IEEE's 2010 New Face, Sanna Gaspard.

Click here to read about what IEEE's 2004 New Face, Dominique Green, has been doing since receiving his award.

Updated:  29 September 2011