Upcoming External Recognition Opportunities

To help identify and secure prestigious external recognitions for our faculty, we provide a selected list of external recognition opportunities four times a year, upcoming quarter by quarter. This email contains a list of opportunities with deadlines in or around Quarter 2 (April-June) of 2023. The opportunities are organized as follows:

The opportunities are organized as follows:
Multi-disciplinary awards and recognitions: Upcoming quarter deadlines for prestigious awards and recognitions that are not generally discipline or technical society specific.
Engineering society high honors: Upcoming quarter nomination deadlines for top-tier engineering society recognitions/medals.
Engineering society division level or other achievement recognitions: Upcoming quarter nomination deadlines for division level or other achievement recognitions within a specific society or organization.
Engineering society fellow recognitions: Upcoming quarter deadlines for engineering society fellow/associate fellow nominations.

If you are interested in nominating a CoE colleague/being nominated for any of these awards or others, please contact your Head or School Award Committee Chair to learn about assistance that may be available to you from the school. At the College level, nomination requests can be submitted through this online form, preferably at least 2 months before the nomination deadline. Dr. John Grundy runs the College's External Awards and Recognitions Program, and works closely with me, the heads, and the Dean's Awards Committee to make 70+ nominations for prestigious external recognitions each year.

If you have not done so recently, we also encourage you to take advantage of the Pivot search engine which is available through Purdue Libraries. Pivot now also covers prestigious recognition opportunities in addition to funding opportunities. Its proprietary algorithm compiles pre-populated Purdue researcher profiles and matches them to an editorially maintained database of funding and recognition opportunities. Further information on setting up or claiming your Pivot profile is found in this brief Pivot Quick Reference Guide. If you have any questions or would like a one-on-one demonstration, please contact Sue Grimes, Assistant Director of Research Development Services, EVPRP.

AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science

Nomination deadline: June 30, 2023

Recognizes early-career scientists and engineers who demonstrate excellence in their contribution to public engagement with science activities. Public engagement activities are defined as the individual's active participation in efforts to engage with the public on science- and technology-related issues and promote meaningful dialogue between science and society. Candidates must be “early career” which is defined as an individual who has completed their terminal degree within seven years of the deadline for nominations.

AAAS Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science

Nomination deadline: June 30, 2023

Formerly the AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology, this award was established in 1987 to recognize scientists and engineers who demonstrate excellence in their contribution to public engagement with science. Public engagement activities are defined as the individual's active participation in efforts to engage with the public on science- and technology-related issues and promote meaningful dialogue between science and society.

AAAS Mentor Awards

Nomination deadline: June 30, 2023

The two categories of the AAAS Mentor Awards (Lifetime Mentor Award and Mentor Award) both honor individuals who during their careers demonstrate extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering fields and careers.

Benjamin Franklin Medal

Nomination deadline: Nominations Accepted Anytime

The Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medals span seven disciplines of science and engineering: chemistry, civil and mechanical engineering, computer and cognitive science, earth and environmental science, electrical engineering, life science, and physics. The subject of the candidate's research must be an invention, discovery, technological development, or a body of work reflecting extraordinary insight, skill, or creativity.

Bower Prize for the Advancement of Science

Nomination deadline: March 31, 2023 (notice of intent to nominate requested by February 28, 2023)

2024 Theme: The Physics of Soft Matter: Self-Assembling, Responsive, Smart

The Franklin Institute seeks nominations for the 2024 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science of individuals who have made significant contributions to understanding the unique properties of soft matter or to the development of applications utilizing soft matter. Nominations should recognize contributions with broad impact centered on the physics of soft matter, including interdisciplinary work in which the physics of soft matter plays a central role. Nominations may be for fundamental or application-oriented science, whether theoretical, experimental, or computational in nature.

Frontiers of Engineering

Nomination deadline: Mid-March 2023 (anticipated)

The Frontiers of Engineering program brings together a select group of emerging engineering leaders from industry, academe, and government labs to discuss pioneering technical work and leading-edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors. Attendance at the meeting is by invitation-only following a competitive selection process.

Institution of Engineering and Technology Achievement Medals

Nomination deadline: May 15, 2023

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) presents a range of achievement medals spanning areas such as electronics, IT, manufacturing and other areas of engineering and technology. IET also offers two early career achievement recognitions.

National Academy of Engineering Awards for Engineering Achievement and Innovation

Nomination deadline: April 1, 2023

The NAE presents seven awards for engineering achievement and innovation—the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering, the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, the Simon Ramo Founders Award, the Arthur M. Bueche Award, the Gibbs Brothers Medal, and the J.C. Hunsaker Award in Aeronautical Engineering.

National Inventors Hall of Fame

Nomination deadline: Nominations Accepted Anytime

The National Inventors Hall of Fame honors visionaries whose patented inventions have changed our world. Nominees must hold a U.S. patent for an invention that is groundbreaking or a significant advancement in their field. The invention has been put into widespread use and has improved societal well-being, provided economic benefits to the country and has advanced scientific understanding.

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Nomination deadline: May 26, 2023

The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (NMTI) is the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement, bestowed by the president of the United States on America's leading innovators. The purpose of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation is to recognize those who have made lasting contributions to America's competitiveness, standard of living, and quality of life through technological innovation, and to recognize those who have made substantial contributions to strengthening the nation's technological workforce.

Packard Fellowship (Limited Submission)

Internal nomination deadline: February 27, 2023

Agency deadline: April 20, 2023

The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Program invests in future leaders who have the freedom to take risks, explore new frontiers in their fields of study, and follow uncharted paths that may lead to groundbreaking discoveries. Candidates must be faculty members engaged in research in the natural and physical sciences or engineering and must be within the first three years of their faculty careers. 20 recipients will receive individual grants of $875,000 distributed over five years. Of the $175,000 paid each year, $17,500 is available to the university as compensation for administrative costs.

R&D 100 Awards

Nomination deadline: May 4, 2023

Established in 1963, R&D World’s R&D 100 Awards is the only S&T (science and technology) awards competition that recognizes new commercial products, technologies and materials for their technological significance that are available for sale or license. There are six categories in the R&D 100: Analytical/Test, IT/Electrical, Mechanical/Materials, Process/Prototyping, Software/Services, and Other.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Daniel Guggenheim Medal
Nomination deadline: July 1, 2023
The Daniel Guggenheim Medal was established as an international award for the purpose of honoring an individual who makes notable achievements in advancing the safety and practicality of aviation. The Medal recognizes contributions to aeronautical research and education, the development of commercial aircraft and equipment, and the application of aircraft to the economic and social activities of the nation.

American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers

Honorary Membership
Nomination deadline: April 1, 2023
AIME Honorary Membership is one of the highest honors that the Institute can bestow on an individual. It is awarded in appreciation of outstanding service to the Institute or in recognition of distinguished scientific or engineering achievement in the fields embracing the activities of AIME and its Member Societies.

Biomedical Engineering Society

Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award
Nomination deadline: June 30, 2023 (anticipated)
This award is BMES's premier recognition. The Society bestows this prestigious award on individuals who have demonstrated impactful leadership and accomplishments in biomedical engineering science and practice.

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

George W. Housner Medal
Nomination deadline: May 30, 2023 (anticipated)
The George W. Housner Medal of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute is awarded to recognize members of the Institute and others who have made extraordinary and lasting contributions to public earthquake safety through the development and application of earthquake hazard reduction practices and policies.

Honorary Membership
Nomination deadline: May 30, 2023 (anticipated)
Honorary membership of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute is awarded to recognize members who have made sustained and outstanding contributions to the field of earthquake engineering and/or to the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the pursuit of its objectives.

Electrochemical Society

Vittorio De Nora Award
Nomination deadline: April 15, 2023
The Vittorio de Nora Award was established in 1971 to recognize distinguished contributions to the field of electrochemical engineering and technology.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEEE Medals
Nomination deadline: June 15, 2023
IEEE Medals are awarded across a range of electrical and electronics engineering fields. They are the highest-level IEEE awards embracing significant and broad achievements.

Institute of Navigation

Johannes Kepler Award
Nomination deadline: June 30, 2023
The Johannes Kepler Award honors an individual for sustained and significant contributions to the development of satellite navigation during their lifetime.

Materials Research Society

Von Hippel Award
Nomination deadline: May 3, 2023
The Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society's highest honor, recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers—brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines.

MRS Medal
Nomination deadline: May 3, 2023
The MRS Medal recognizes an exceptional achievement in materials research in the past ten years. A medal will be awarded for a major advance or cluster of closely related advances in any materials-related field of research. The impact of this research on the progress of the relevant materials field will be a primary consideration in making the award.

Society of Women Engineers

Achievement Award
Nomination deadline: March 31, 2023 (anticipated)
The Achievement Award is the highest award given by the Society of Women Engineers. It is presented annually to an individual who has made significant and progressive technical contributions for at least twenty years of time in a field of engineering. Their academic training may be in either science or engineering.

TMS

Society Awards
Nomination deadline: April 1, 2023
TMS confers Society Awards to recognize notable contributions to the field and pinnacle career achievements. TMS award recipients include some of the most accomplished and promising minerals, metals, and materials scientists and engineers in the world.

Albany Medical Center

Albany Med Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research
Nomination deadline: March 24, 2023
The Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research is awarded to a physician, scientist or group, whose work has led to significant advances in health care and scientific research with demonstrated translational benefits for improved patient care. Its purpose is to encourage and recognize extraordinary and sustained contributions to improving health care and promoting innovative biomedical research.

American Concrete Institute

ACI Certification Award
Nomination deadline: May 31, 2023
The ACI Certification Award was established in 2004 to recognize individuals and organizations who have made notable contributions to the advancement of ACI Certification.

Walter P Moore Jr. Faculty Achievement Award
Nomination deadline: June 30, 2023 (anticipated)
The Walter P. Moore Jr. Faculty Achievement Award recognizes new faculty members for excellence and innovation in the teaching of concrete design, materials, or construction.

American Indian Science and Engineering Society

AISES Professional Awards
Nomination deadline: April 29, 2023
The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is proud to announce that nominations are being accepted for the 2023 AISES Professional Awards. The AISES Professional Awards were established to provide recognition for outstanding Indigenous professionals in science, engineering and technological related disciplines while assisting with the advancement of Indigenous professionals, role models and future leaders.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

10 Technical Awards
Nomination deadline: July 1, 2023
Awards covering various areas including the Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Award, the Aerospace Design Engineering Award, the Aerospace Power Systems Award and others.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Excellence in Process Development Research Award
Nomination deadline: May 15, 2023
Recognizes individuals who have made significant technical contributions to the advancement of process development within research, teaching, or regulatory activities. Accomplishments must be disseminated by means of well-documented materials.

6 Computing and Systems Technology Division Award
Nomination deadline: April 17, 2023

3 Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Forum (PD2M) Awards
Nomination deadline: May 31, 2023 (anticipated)

Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering
Nomination deadline: June 1, 2023 (anticipated)
This is the most prestigious environmental award within AIChE and is given by the Environmental Division in recognition of an individual's outstanding chemical engineering contribution and achievement in the preservation or improvement of the environment.

American Society of Civil Engineers

4 Achievement Awards including the Alfred Noble Prize
Nomination deadline: May 1, 2023
Upcoming ASCE awards include the Forensic Engineering Award, the Nettleton Outstanding PA Award, The Alfred Noble Prize and the Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award. The Alfred Noble Prize is given for a technical paper of exceptional merit accepted by the Committee on Publications, or a committee of like standing, for publication in any of their technical publications, provided the author has not passed his/her 35th birthday at the time the paper is published in print by the nominating society.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Kate Gleason Award
Nomination deadlines: March 1, 2023
The Gleason Award seeks to honor an individual female engineer who is a highly successful entrepreneur in a field of engineering or someone who had a lifetime of achievement in the engineering profession.

Gas Turbine Award
Nomination deadlines: June 1, 2023
The Gas Turbine Award is given in recognition of an outstanding individual--or multiple--author contribution to the literature of combustion gas turbines or gas turbines thermally combined with nuclear or steam power plants.

American Vacuum Society

Gaede-Langmuir Award
Nomination deadline: March 31, 2023 (anticipated)
This award recognizes and encourages outstanding discoveries and inventions in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS.

Association for Computer Machinery

Gordon Bell Prize
Nomination deadline: April 15, 2023
The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. The purpose of the award is to track the progress over time of parallel computing, with particular emphasis on rewarding innovation in applying high-performance computing to applications in science, engineering, and large-scale data analytics.

Biomedical Engineering Society

Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award
Nomination deadline: March 31, 2023 (anticipated)
BMES offers the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award to stimulate research careers in biomedical engineering. Nominees must be within seven years of completing their highest degree at the time of award nomination submission; a tenure track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level at the time of award submission; a BMES member in good standing with demonstrated participation in the Society.

BMES Mid-Career Award
Nomination deadline: March 31, 2023 (anticipated)
The BMES Mid-Career Award recognizes a member in good standing who has demonstrated significant leadership and achievements in biomedical engineering. These achievements may be in scholarship, education, mentorship, leadership, or the practice of biomedical engineering.

BMEs Diversity Lecture Award
Nomination deadline: March 31, 2023 (anticipated)
The BMES Diversity Award honors an individual, project, organization, or institution for impactful contributions toward improving gender and racial diversity in biomedical engineering. The award seeks to recognize lifetime achievements and high-impact activities (i.e., research, academia, and service) that are innovative and improve equity among biomedical engineering academia and industry.

Material Research Society

Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science
Nomination deadlines: May 3, 2023
This honor recognizes significant novel contributions to materials science by a young researcher in early stages of their career.

Materials Theory Award
Nomination deadlines: May 3, 2023
The Materials Theory Award recognizes exceptional advances made by materials theory to the fundamental understanding of the structure and behavior of materials. This award is intended to honor both those who have pioneered the development of a new theoretical approach and those who have used existing approaches to provide significant new insight into materials behavior.

National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)

Engineering Education Excellence Award
Nomination deadlines: March 31, 2023
This national award recognizes engineering faculty who have demonstrated the ability to link engineering education with professional practice.

Society for Experimental Mechanics

J. W. Dally Young Investigator Award
Nomination deadlines: April 15, 2023
Recognizes a young professional (within 10 years of Ph.D.) who has made significant contributions in education and has demonstrated an excellence in research in the field of experimental mechanics.

S. Nemat-Nasser Award
Nomination deadlines: April 15, 2023
For distinguished, innovative and outstanding work that has realized the impact of experimental mechanics on other scientific and engineering fields through integrated multidisciplinary research.

Society for Women Engineers

Individual Awards
Nomination deadlines: March 31, 2023
The Society of Women Engineers strives to advance and honor the contributions of women at all stages of their careers as well as recognize the successes of SWE members and individuals who enhance the engineering profession through contributions to industry, education and the community.

TMS (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society)

Division Awards
Nomination deadlines: April 1, 2023
TMS's five technical divisions—Extraction & Processing (EPD), Functional Materials (FMD), Light Metals (LMD), Materials Processing & Manufacturing (MPMD), and Structural Materials (SMD)—each administer an array of awards recognizing excellence within a particular realm of expertise.

Young Professional Awards
Nomination deadlines: April 1, 2023
TMS supports its early career members in their professional growth and leadership development through awards intended to facilitate networking and advancement within the society.

Water Research Foundation

Paul L. Busch Award
Nomination deadlines: June 1, 2023
The Paul L. Busch Award recognizes an individual for innovative research in the field of water quality and the water environment, with a special focus on those who show promise and make significant contributions in bridging research and its practical application. The Award has provided $2.1 million in funding to up-and-coming researchers who are making major breakthroughs in the water quality industry.