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Congressman Rohrabacher Receives IEEE-USA Award from IEEE-USA President

WASHINGTON (12 July 2005) — IEEE-USA President Gerard A. Alphonse presented Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) with the IEEE-USA Distinguished Public Service Award in the congressman’s office today.

Rohrabacher, former chairman of the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, was honored “for long-term support of IEEE-USA’s Congressional Fellowship program and leadership on federal policy issues of concern to the engineering community.”

Rohrabacher thanked Alphonse for the award and said “we need more engineers and scientists to help shape national policy.”

Steve Watkins served as an IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow last year in Rohrabacher’s office, and Randall Brouwer holds the position in 2005. Both attended Tuesday’s event. Photos of the presentation are available to IEEE editors.

IEEE-USA’s distinguished awards are administered under its Awards and Recognition Committee and approved by the IEEE-USA Board of Directors. For more information, visit www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/awards, or contact Sandra Kim at sandra.kim@ieee.org. Nominations are being accepted for the 2005 awards. The deadline is 31 July 2005.

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