IEEE UK & Ireland Women in Engineering Awards 2023
The primary goal of the awards is to recognise the volunteers and members of the United Kingdom and Ireland Section who have volunteered their time and made a significant contribution supporting Women in Engineering.
Where possible we aim to support diversity through consideration of awards across our geographical region. Awards include a plaque and a small monetary award in addition to recognition on the IEEE WIE UK & Ireland website.
The awards will be presented at a virtual event.
Awards
Key Dates
- Applications Due: 31st March 2023
- IEEE UK&I WIE Lecture and Award Presentation: 2nd June 2023, 3pm UTC
Previous Winners (2021)
- Excellence in Engineering: Hanan Hindy
- Change Catalyst for Equal Engineering: Toni Collis
- IEEE WIE UK&I Kay McNulty Award: Caroline Sheedy
- IEEE WIE UK&I Inspirational Volunteer Award: Iman El-Dessouki
Application Requirements
- The applicant or the person nominating the applicant must be a member of the IEEE
- Verified via a membership number
- Application to be submitted should be a PDF file including:
- Applicant and nominee name (if appropriate) and IEEE number
- Name of Award applied for
- A 500 word summary describing why the applicant is eligible for the award
- Maximum 2 A4 pages of supporting evidence including demonstrable evidence of the applicant’s work for example emails, screenshots, images and tables of information. External links must not be included and will not be considered (use screenshots instead).
- Two references. Suggested examples include:
- At least one must be from an IEEE member (include membership number).
- Either references can come from:
- a person who can describe their role work directly
- a person who can attest to benefitting directly from their work
- Priority will be given to a ground level person rather than specifically EDI roles for the awards Change Catalyst and Inspirational Volunteer
- Applicants may only receive a single award but may apply for multiple awards if appropriate.
Evaluation Committee
- The evaluation team are members of the IEEE UK&I WIE committee.
- Criteria for evaluation of the data can be seen in the attached rubric.
- Each application will be evaluated and ranked by at least two members of the committee.
- The evaluation committee will agree winners by considering the rankings from evaluators. Where rankings are equal, consideration will be given to:
- The geographical region where the applicant is based – priority will be given to under-represented regions.
- The nature of the applicant’s job – for the Change Catalyst and Inspirational Volunteer awards, priority will be given to applicants whose work on change is not part of their main role.
- The evaluation committee are not eligible to apply for any of the awards but may nominate people for awards.