Texas engineer receives IEEE-USA's highest honor, 1 of 24 IEEE-USA award recipients

Greg Hutchins, Region 6
For providing insight, as well as training and development materials to IEEE-USA’s Career and Workforce Policy Committee

Maury Miller, Region 6
For leadership in coordinating follow-up meetings with the Washington State Delegation after the IEEE-USA Career Fly-In

Halden A. Morris, Region 3
For leadership in promoting IEEE-USA professional programs and goals in Region 3

Monroe B. Savage, Region 3
For leadership in rebuilding the engineering community in Mississippi and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina

Ravi Todi, Region 3
For leadership of GOLD and PACE programs and student activities in Region 3

DIVISIONAL PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD

John Prohodsky, Division VIII
For leadership in creating opportunities for professional activities in the IEEE Computer Society

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR INDIVIDUALS

Robert Menzel
For providing professional development programs in the IEEE St. Louis Section

Nita Patel
For developing the Technical Workshop Program and supporting the professional program for the 2007 IEEE-USA Annual Meeting

Kevin Taylor
For conceiving and coordinating the Future Energy Technology’s Employment Challenge career program in Detroit, Mich.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Dominion
For a tradition of supporting professionalism by promoting employee involvement and sponsoring IEEE activities

PRECOLLEGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE TEACHER-ENGINEER PARTNERSHIP AWARD

Moises Cases (engineer) and Christopher Benedict (teacher)
For increasing student awareness of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at Ridgetop Elementary School

AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS FURTHERING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROFESSION

Matt Wickenheiser
For his series, Investigative Report: Foreign Labor, that improved public understanding of visa fraud issues

ELECTROTECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AWARD

Michael J. Duarte
For technology transfer to medical diagnostics by applying digital imaging enhancement used for finding underwater objects, to detecting small lesions in mammograms

HARRY DIAMOND MEMORIAL AWARD

Meyya Meyyappan
For distinguished technical contributions and engineering leadership in developing nanotechnology applications in sensors, instrumentation and devices

SPECIAL CITATION

Boeing
For commitment to promoting diversity in the technical workforce, in partnership with IEEE-USA professional development conferences

IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 215,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of the IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.