The I&M Society awards four Society-level awards annually:
- the Career Excellence Award
- the Society Award
- the Distinguished Service Award
- the Outstanding Young Engineer Award
The Society presented its 2007 Society Awards at IMTC 2008 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2007 I&M Society Awards:
Instrumentation and Measurement Society Career Excellence Award
The I&M Career Excellence Award is awarded to recognize a lifetime career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contribution by an individual in the field of instrumentation and measurement.
The 2007 Career Excellence Award recipient is:
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Milton G. Slade "For a lifelong career in automated test and measurement and over 15 years of volunteer service to the Instrumentation and Measurement Society." |
Milton Slade retired from GTE Government Systems after 15 years of program management responsibility for automatic test programs, group support equipment, and a military telephone message switch. Earlier he was active in the development of automatic support equipment at Sanders Associates and systems engineering and management of communications, radar systems, and automatic test equipment at RCA. He conducted research in guided missile telemetry at MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics and flight planning and analysis of variable incidence hydrofoil control systems at the MIT Flight Control Laboratory. He is a 1948 graduate of MIT with an SB in EE.
His contributions to the I&M Society are manifold and include service as Vice President and President of the Society, 15 years as a member of the Technical Committee on Automated Instrumentation, 10 years on the AUTOTESTCON Board of Directors, member and Chairman of the IMTC Board of Directors, member of the Editorial Board of the I&M Magazine, Editor-in-Chief of the I&M Transactions, and Editor of the I&M Newsletter. Mr. Slade is a Life Fellow and a recipient of the IEEE AUTOTESTCON Frank McGinnis Professional Achievement Award.Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award
The I&M Society Technical Award is given to an individual or group of individuals for outstanding contribution or leadership in advancing instrumentation design or measurement technique.
The 2007 Technical Award recipient is:
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John C. Eidson "For outstanding leadership in developing the IEEE 1588 Standard for Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems." |
John Eidson did his undergraduate and masters work at Michigan State University and earned his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is currently a Department Scientist with Agilent Technologies, Agilent Laboratories. He is a key contributor on architecture for distributed measurement systems and is responsible for promoting IEEE 1588 both within and external to Agilent. Dr. Eidson is Chair of IEEE 1588 Precise Networked Clock Synchronization Working Group of the IM/ST Committee for both the 2002 and 2008 edition of IEEE 1588. He is a member of the Technical Committee for the LXI Consortium, was the co-chair for the 2003-2006 Conferences on IEEE 1588, the co-chair of ISPCS 2007 and is on the steering committee for ISPCS 2008. Dr. Eidson is a prolific author, with dozens of publications in journals, technical magazines, conference publications, technical reports, and a book entitled Measurement, Control, and Communication Using IEEE 1588. He is an IEEE Fellow and co-recipient of the 2007 Agilent Laboratories Barney Oliver Award for Innovation.
Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award
The I&M Society Distinguished Service Award is presented each year to an individual who has given outstanding service to the Society and to the profession.
The 2007 Distinguished Service Award recipient is:
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Reza Zoughi "For service to the Society as Transactions Editor-in-Chief, where he rapidly deployed our online Transactions editorial process and dedicated an incredible amount of time and energy to maintain our Transactions to the highest quality level."
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Reza Zoughi joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR), as the Schlumberger Distinguished Professor in 2001. He received his B.S.E.E, M.S.E.E, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (radar remote sensing, radar systems, and microwaves) from the University of Kansas (Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory). His current areas of research include developing new nondestructive techniques for microwave and millimeter wave inspection and testing of materials (NDT), developing new electromagnetic probes and sensors to measure characteristic properties of material at microwave frequencies and developing embedded modulated scattering techniques for NDT purposes in particular for complex composite structures. He has to his credit 95 published journal papers, over 217 conference presentations and proceedings, and 80 technical reports in the fields of radar remote sensing and microwave nondestructive evaluation. He is also the author of a graduate textbook entitled “Microwave Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation Principles”, and the co-author with A. Bahr, and N. Qaddoumi of a chapter on Microwave Techniques in an undergraduate introductory textbook entitled “Nondestructive Evaluation: Theory, Techniques, and Applications”.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), a member of Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and a Technical Associate Editor for Materials Evaluation. He served as the Research Symposium Co-Chair for the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Spring Conference and 11th Annual Research Symposium in March 2002 in Portland, Oregon and as the Technical Chair for the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IMTC2003) in May 2003.Instrumentation and Measurement Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award
The I&M Outstanding Young Engineer Award recognizes an outstanding young I&M member who has distinguished him/herself through achievements, which are technical, of exemplary service to the I&M Society, or a combination of both early in their career. The nominee must not have reached their 39th birthday and must be an I&M member at the time of nomination.
The 2007 Outstanding Young Engineer Award recipient is:
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Sergio Rapuano “For the development of a distributed measurement laboratory that can be remotely accessed by students over the Internet.” |
Sergio Rapuano (M’00) received the master’s degree (cum laude) in electronic engineering Ph.D. degree in computer science, telecommunications and applied electromagnetism from the University of Salerno, Italy. Since 2002 he has been with the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Sannio as Assistant Professor of Electric and Electronic Measurement. He is a member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society TC-10, secretary of the TC-23 Education in Instrumentation and Measurement Working Group on e-tools and Co-Chairman/official reporter of TC-25 Medical and Biological Measurements Subcommittee on Objective Blood Pressure Measurement. His research interests include digital signal processing for measurement in telecommunications, data converter characterization, distributed measurement systems, virtual laboratories, and medical measurement.
The I&M members elevated to the Fellow grade in 2008 are:
Ruth A. Dyer
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS, USA
For contributions to diversity in science and engineering education, and Hadamard-transform spectrometers.
Robert X. Gao
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA, USA
For contributions to condition monitoring and health diagnosis of machines through sensing methodologies.
Sorin Marcovici
Analogic Corporation
Lexington, MA, USA
For contributions to amorphous selenium flat panel detectors and x-ray detectors and to electronics for multi-slice CT scanners.
Marco Parvis
Politecnico di Torino Italy
Torino, Italy
For contributions to distributed data acquisition systems.
John L. Schmalzel
NASA-Stennis
Stennis Space Center, MS, USA
For leadership in engineering education.
The Society Emeritus members are:
Stephen A. Adam
Stanley R. Booker
David Braudaway
Bernard P. Gollomp
Harold Goldberg
The Robotdalen Scientific Award
In 2007 the Swedish robotics cluster Robotdalen founded The Robotdalen Scientific Award. An international competition for young scientists, with EUR 20 000 in prize money. The purpose is to encourage young, innovative people all over the world in the field of robotics and automation, to find new and untried approaches for the future. In September 2008 this years winner will be announced. The next date of entry is May 31, 2009.
For more information please visit www.robotdalen.se
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The Robotdalen Scientific Award
