Engineer-Of-The-Year Nominations
Pacific Northwest Section
PNW AIAA Engineer-of-the-Year Nominations (2014)
The Pacific Northwest Section would like to recognize AIAA members’ achievements and service to the aerospace industry. The following Engineer of the Year awards provide a format for members to nominate deserving colleagues.
It is essential that our awards be made to truly outstanding engineers and professionals possessing strong histories of achievement, in order to make the celebration of our profession noteworthy and meaningful.
Each of our members are aware of colleagues whose achievements are worthy of recognition. Please consider outstanding engineers and educators and nominate them as candidates for the following awards:
- Educator-of-the-Year
- Government Engineer-of-the-Year
- Industry Engineer-of-the-Year
- Aerospace/STEM Outreach Engineer-of-the-Year
- Young Engineer-of-the-Year
The Guide for Preparation of Engineer-of-the-Year Nominations is shown on the next page. The separately available nomination forms for each of the five award categories contain criteria and required information for each award. Please provide the required information as completely and concisely as possible.
The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. on Monday, June 2, 2014. Earlier submissions are much appreciated by the Awards Committee.
Please send nominations and any questions via e-mail to the PNW AIAA 2014 Awards Committee Coordinators:
Paul Vijgen at and
Emmanuel Domingo at
Guide for Preparation of PNW AIAA Engineer-of-the-Year Nominations (2014)
The awards program is intended to honor truly outstanding engineers and educators possessing strong histories of achievement. Please nominate worthy candidates for this honor. Present their qualifications completely, accurately without exaggeration, and consistent with the criteria presented on the nomination forms. Also attach a short resume.
A panel of five judges on the Nomination Committee will evaluate the nominations to identify the best nominee for each award. The judges are experienced engineers charged with identifying the best candidate for each award; their deliberations are private; their decisions are final; if no candidate is found worthy of the honor no award will be made.
In grading nominations for:
– Educator-of-the-Year
– Government Engineer-of-the-Year
– Industry Engineer-of-the-Year
– Aerospace/STEM Outreach Engineer-of-the-Year
The first and second requested information items encompass the award criteria items and will receive about 75% of the grade.
- Nominee’s demonstration of Award Criteria
- General biography and summary of qualifications
The additional requested information items are supportive and will receive about 25% of the grade.
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In grading nominations for Young Engineer-of-the-Year, the following information items provided will receive the weighting as listed:
- Professional background including Society Affiliations20%
- Education/Engineering Credentials20%
- Professional/Educational achievements and awards40%
- Community, Civic and Charitable involvement20%
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