• Outstanding Engineering Achievement Merit Award
  The nominee should be a person who has achieved significant accomplishments in a particular area of engineering activity within the last year.

• Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award
  Nominees are individuals who are outstanding in professional qualities and have a top reputation for engineering accomplishments and leadership. The individual’s entire career is considered, including civic contributions.

• Distinguished Engineering Educator Award
  This award is made to individuals who are outstanding in professional qualities and have a top reputation for engineering education and leadership. Nominee for this award should be an individual who has significantly contributed to students' extracurricular engineering activities, and/or to scientific achievements with respect to industry applications.

• Distinguished Engineering Project Achievement Award
  This award recognizes public or private organizations or consulting firms that during the past three(3) years have brought to fulfillment engineering projects which, because of their scope or unique character, are outstanding and deserving of merit. Nominations must include the name of a Team Leader or Project Leader designated to receive the award on behalf of the entire team.

• Engineer of the Year Peter Recchia Omni Memorial Award
  He or she should be outstanding in professional qualities and have a top reputation for engineering accomplishments and leadership. His or her entire career should be considered, including civic and non-technical accomplishments.

• John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award
  This award is made to an individual with outstanding professional qualities and a top reputation for engineering education and leadership. Nominee for this award should be an individual who has contributed heavily to students' extracurricular engineering activities, and/or to scientific achievements with respect to industry applications.

• William B. Johnson International, Interprofessional Founders Memorial Award
  This award was created to honor those engineers who are deemed to exhibit qualities of dedication to principle, devotion to duty, love of our engineering profession, and the tenacity to achieve lofty goals.

• Honorary Engineer of the Year Award
  Nominee must have National or International recognition as a major contributor to the field of engineering, leadership of engineering programs, or other significant contribution to the engineering profession, but is not necessarily an engineer. This could include legislators, government officials, public relations specialists, communications specialists, journalists, etcetera.

• Engineering Project Achievement of the Year Award
  This award recognizes a public or private organization or consulting firm that during the past three (3) years has brought to fulfillment an engineering project of National or International significance which is deserving of merit. Nominations must include the name of a Team Leader or Project Leader to receive the award on behalf of the entire team.

• Brigadier General Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager International Aeronautical Achievements Award
  This award was first given to General Yeager in recognition of his historically outstanding achievements in the field of aeronautical flight testing as one of America's foremost flight test engineers. The award is presented annually to one who has proven to have attained similar successes in the field of aeronautical engineering and flight test. The recipient is recommended by the Engineers' Council Honors & Awards Committee, and approved by General Yeager.

• Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson Memorial Skunk Works Award
  This award was created under the auspices of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to honor individuals who have demonstrated a similar vision of that attributed to Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson. The annual presentation is made by a Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company representative.

• Jack Northrop Spirit of Innovation Award
  The Engineeers' Council bestows this award in honor of the individual technical contributions that inspire innovation and advance the progress of industry. The Jack Northrop Spirit of Innovation Award commemorates the vision, perseverance and engineering prowess reminiscent of Jack Northrop, whose achievements and techniques broke the barriers of traditional aircraft design. The annual presentation is made by a Northrop Grumman Corporation representative.

• Robert H. Goddard Space Propulsion Pioneer Award
  This award is made in honor of the founder of modern rocketry, Dr. Robert H. Goddard to those who have exhibited his qualities. Dr. Goddard was a physicist of great vision of space exploration and a genius for innovation. Dr. Goddard's developments spawned the rocket industry that put the first Americans into space and the first humans on the moon. His legacy lives today in those who followed and extended his pioneering work.

• Theodore Von Karman Mission Excellence Award
  This award is given in honor of the great mathematician and academic leader, Theodore Von Karman. Von Karman led the Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, which he had helped to design. Under his leadership, this laboratory was a vital resource to the emerging Southern California aerospace industry, thrusting Caltech to national pre-eminence. In 1944 he established the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech. The first person to receive the National Medal of Science, Von Karman's theoretical aerodynamics and work in rocket research has shaped both scientific and political history.

Engineers' Council Honors & Awards Committee
Throughout the years, the Engineers' Council has presented awards to thousands of worthy recipients. A panel of judges representing academia and a cross section of engineering disciplines will review all nominations and make appropriate selections.

Engineers' Council Honors & Awards Committee
• Dr. S. K. Ramesh, IEEE (Chairman)
  Dean of Engineering & Computer Sciences
  California State University Northridge
• Dr. A. F. "Rick" Ratcliffe, IEEE
  Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering & Computer Science
  California State University Northridge
• Charles Olsefsky, IEEE
  Retired Program Manager
  Hughes Missile Systems (10 years)
  Lockheed Corporation (20 years)
  Radio Plane Company (5 years)
  North American Aviation Apollo Program (2 years)

Technical Society and Company Support Considerations
It is important to organization's support to the Honors & Awards Banquet, and peer & management participation in order to assist in the recognition of your nominees, should he or she be selected to receive an award from The Engineers' Council.

National Engineers Week celebrations are planned, in accordance with The National Society of Professional Engineers guidelines, to occur during the week of George Washington's birthday. George Washington, a land surveyor & our nations first president, is regarded as our nation's first prominent engineer, and thus we celebrate National Engineers Week in conjunction with his birthday.

Since 1955, The Engineers' Council has conducted an Honors & Awards Banquet at a major banquet facility, and arranges for the keynote address to be delivered by a prominent speaker. This year's Honors & Awards Banquet attendance was 665, and was the largest of its kind nationwide. The upcoming 2009 banquet will be The Engineers' Council 54^th Annual Honors & Awards Banquet.

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