News Release

IEEE-USA Establishes New Award for Leadership in Entrepreneurial Spirit

WASHINGTON (29 May 2009) — IEEE-USA has established an award to honor an IEEE member for furthering entrepreneurial growth and spirit in the United States.

The IEEE-USA Entrepreneur Achievement Award for Leadership in Entrepreneurial Spirit is designed to honor a member whose perseverance and visionary efforts have created "a successful business that has commercialized technology products or services," and "advanced society through commerce and community improvement."

"U.S. high-tech entrepreneurs are at the forefront of creating quality jobs in the United States and advancing U.S. competitiveness," IEEE-USA Entrepreneurial Activities Committee co-Chair Mauro Togneri said. "We established this award because we think these entrepreneurs should be recognized for the key role they play in strengthening the U.S. economy."

Nominations are open to all IEEE members who demonstrate the entrepreneurial spirit, support IEEE's goals and improve the image of engineers or the engineering profession. See http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/awards/award12.html.

The IEEE-USA Entrepreneur Achievement Award for Leadership in Entrepreneurial Spirit is one of many IEEE-USA awards designed to recognize and honor IEEE members for their professional, technical and literary accomplishments. Nominees for IEEE-USA's literary awards -- for furthering public understanding of the profession and for furthering engineering professionalism -- do not have to be IEEE members. The nomination deadline for 2009 awards is 31 July 2009.

IEEE-USA's awards program is administered under its Awards and Recognition Committee and approved by the IEEE-USA Board of Directors. For additional information, go to www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/awards or contact Sandra Kim at sandra.kim@ieee.org.

The next Awards Ceremony will be held in conjunction with the IEEE-USA Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tenn., on 6 March, 2010. For more on the 2008 award recipients, see http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/releases/2009/022509.asp.

IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 210,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See www.ieeeusa.org .

Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager
Phone: 1 202 530 8356
E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org

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