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IEEE-USA Awards Nominations Being Sought:
August 1 Deadline Fast Approaching

WASHINGTON (26 July 2001) - The IEEE-USA Awards and Recognition Committee is still seeking nominations for its 2001 awards. These prestigious awards are presented in recognition of professional, technical and literary contributions to public awareness and understanding of the engineering profession in the United States.

The nomination deadline is next Wednesday, 1 August, 2001.

So if you know or work with someone whose efforts on behalf of the profession or the IEEE merit recognition at the national level, now's the time to nominate your colleagues or even yourself. Nomination forms can be found online at http://www.ieeeusa.org/awards/forms.html.

For more information, visit the IEEE-USA Awards and Recognition Web page at http://www.ieeeusa.org/AWARDS/index.html, or contact Svetlana Durkovic at s.durkovic@ieee.org.

IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the IEEE created in 1973 to promote the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 230,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, visit us online at http://www.ieeeusa.org.