IEEE Awards

Awards Judging, IEEE Headquarters, 1970. All judges are key advertising and agency executives from GE, XEROX, Eastman Kodak, Westing House, etc. The smiling man standing to the left of the man in black glasses at the table's center is William ("Bill") R. Saunders who was Spectrum's advertising director in 1969 and was Spectrum's Associate Publisher.

IEEE and its predecessors societies have long given awards to recognize a variety of outstanding achievements in fields of interest. IEEE's Edison Medal was first awarded by predecessor AIEE in 1909 to Elihu Thomson; IEEE's Medal of Honor, the Insitute's highest award, was first by predecessor IRE in 1917 to Edwin H. Armstrong.

IEEE Awards are overseen by the IEEE Awards Board, a standing committee of the IEEE Board of Directors. There is a complete year-by-year list of Awards Board members available here.

As of 2009, IEEE awarded in addition to these two medals, 13 other medals, 31 technical field awards, 2 IEEE service awards, 2 corporate recognitions, 2 prize paper awards, honorary memberships, one scholarship, one fellowship, a staff award, and one co-sponsored award. Many of the the awards are presented to their recipient at an annual IEEE Honors Ceremony.

Descriptions of each award, accompanied by lists of the winners, can be found here.

For citations of the medal winners through 1984, see section one of the IEEE book A Century of Honors.

List of IEEE Awards

Medals

Technical Field Awards

IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award
IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award
IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Award
IEEE Control Systems Award
IEEE Electromagnetics Award
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award
IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award
IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
IEEE Internet Award
IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award
IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award
IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies
IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits
IEEE Frederik Philips Award
IEEE Photonics Award
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award
IEEE Robotics and Automation Award
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
IEEE David Sarnoff Award
IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
IEEE Nikola Tesla Award
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award

Discontinued Awards

IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award
IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence
IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal
IEEE Lamme Medal
IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Paper Award
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award
IEEE Harry Diamond Memorial Award
IEEE William M. Habirshaw Award
IEEE Award in International Communication
IEEE Mervin J. Kelly Award
IEEE Morris E. Leeds Award
IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
IEEE Jack A. Morton Award
IEEE Vladimir K. Zworykin Award