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Call for Nominations: Bionic Engineering Award

The International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE) offers International Bionic Engineering Award at each triennial conference to honour and encourage the society members for their prominent contributions and achievements in the field of bionic engineering. 

The Award is divided into two categories:

1) Bionic Engineering Outstanding Contribution Award:

Two winnners, each one will be awarded 30,000 RMB;

2) Bionic Engineering Outstanding Youth Award:

Two winners aged under 40 years old, and each one will be awarded 10,000 RMB.

Now nominations are invited for this Award, and there are three methods of nominating candidates:

1) Self-recommendation;

2) Recommended by another member;

3) Recommended by a group of colleagues.

Self-recommendation needs to provide the individual resume including the main achievement. Recommended by another member or a group of colleagues need to give explanations for recommendation. At the initial stage, the nominees probably may not be the society members because our members come from different countries and not necessarily familiar with each other, but they should be the person who made contribution in the field of bionic engineering and become the members of ISBE at the enrollment stage.

The Award Committee has been established in the April following the guidelines of Award Measures, and the nominations will be assessed equally on the nominee’s merits and eligibility. The final result will be announced at the 4th International Conference of Bionic Engineering (ICBE2013) when the winners will be presented with the certificate and monetary award. It should be noted that the members of the Executive Board of ISBE are ineligible for the award.

Common ways of submitting nominations are e-mail (jlu_isbe@hotmail.com or office-isbe@263.net) or post (1201 Administrative Building, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China). The deadline for submission of nominations is June 10, 2013, unless otherwise indicated.

Biomedical Engineering Society Diversity Award

The BMES Diversity Award honors an individual, project, organization, or institution for outstanding contributions to improving gender and racial diversity in biomedical engineering. The award is given for a broad range of activities, including research, education, and service that improves diversity in biomedical engineering industry and/or academia. The award seeks to recognize lifetime achievements as well as innovative and/or high impact activities.

The awardee or a representative of the project, organization, or institution will deliver a plenary lecture at the BMES Annual Meeting and publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. An important purpose of the lecture is to offer a vision of the challenges and opportunities to achieving greater diversity in biomedical engineering.

Conditions:

A nomination letter is required, (PDF Format submission will be accepted), which should address the following:

- What are the objectives of the nominee’s work?
- Provide examples of how the work conforms to and supports the goals of increasing diversity in biomedical engineering.
- Provide a detailed description of the nominee’s work.
- Describe the community served by the work including background/history and evolution if appropriate.
- What has been the impact of the work?
- What are the nominee’s plans to continue the work?

The nomination letter must be from a BMES member in good standing; however, nominees need not be BMES members. Self-nominations from BMES members are strongly encouraged.

The awardee or a representative from the project, organization, or institution is expected to accept the award in person at the BMES Annual Meeting. 

This award consists of $1,000 check, a plaque, a complimentary registration for the BMES Annual Meeting, and travel expenses up to $1,000.

Email your submission including nomination form, CV/Resumeal letters of support by May 31st to regina@bmes.org.

Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Achievement Award

The BMES Distinguished Achievement Award (formerly the BMES/ BME International Award) is awarded each year to an individual, a company, charitable foundation, or non-academic institutions that have made great contributions to the field of biomedical engineering to recognize and honor such organization.  The President, CEO or Founder of the recognized organization is expected to deliver a plenary lecture at the BMES Annual Meeting and to publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.  An important purpose of the lecture is to offer a vision of the challenges and opportunities in biomedical engineering.

Conditions:

It has been an expressed desire of the of the Lee family that this award be used mostly to recognize biomedical engineers from non-academic institutions.

Application form, nominee’s curriculum vitae, resume or a short bio,  letter (s) of support not to exceed 5 letters.

The contributions of the awardee do not need to precede the award date by any specific period of time.

The Awards Committee will screen the nominations, critically evaluate the nominees’ records, and submit a rank ordered list of the top nominees to the BMES President.  The President will select the awardee.

Applicants must be BMES member in good standing.

The award will consist of a plaque, a complimentary registration for the annual meeting, a check of $1,000, and up to $1,000 to assist with travel expenses.

Submit the nomination with a letters describing the nominee's service to biomedical engineering; Nominee's Short Bio, Resume or CV, all submission must be electronic. Email your nomination to regina@bmes.org.  Submission deadline is May 31st.

Biomedical Engineering Society Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award

The Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award is awarded each year to recognize an individual's outstanding achievements and leadership in the science and practice of biomedical engineering. The awardee is expected to deliver a plenary lecture at the Annual Meeting in the fall and publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. A very important purpose of the lecture is to critically review a field of biomedical engineering and offer a vision of its future.

Conditions

1. The award is intended to recognize a high level of originality and leadership in an area of biomedical engineering. The awardee may have achieved excellence in biomedical engineering by contributions within the setting of the university, industry, or government.

2. Solicitation of nominations for the award will be announced in the BMES Bulletin on a timely basis.

3. The awardee's contributions are not required to precede the award date by any specific period of time.

4. The Awards Committee will screen the nominations, critically evaluate the nominee's records, and submit a rank-ordered list of the top three nominees to the BMES President. The President, will select the awardee.

5. Applicants must be a member of BMES in good standing.

This award consists of a plaque, a $1,500 check,  a complimentary registration for the Annual Meeting, and travel expenses up to $1,000.

Please fill out the official application form, with a letter describing the nominee's service (s) to biomedical engineering, the nominee's Curriculum Vita/Resume, and any other letter (s) of support, not to exceed 5 letters. Email to regina@bmes.org at BMES by May 31st.

Biomedical Engineering Society Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award

In honor of Rita Schaffer, former BMES Executive Director, the Society established the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award in 2000. Rita  Schaffer gift's of her estate, along with contributions from her family, friends, and associates, has enabled BMES to create this award.

The Young Investigator Award is offered each year to stimulate research careers in biomedical engineering. The recipient will present a 20-minute Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Lecture, and to publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.  The awardees must be within 5 years of receiving his/her highest degree that summarizes the innovation and impact of the nominee’s research.   Applications must include a curriculum vita, a single manuscript published or accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, no more than 2 years prior to the deadline for application, and confidential letters by two recognized authorities in the field of work, neither of whom is associated with the institution at which the work was completed. 

Conditions:

Application form, nominee’s curriculum vita, confidential letters by two recognized authorities in the field of the work, neither of whom associated with the institution at which the work was not completed nor a co-author on the paper, attesting to the significance of the investigation described in the manuscript.

The award is in recognition of high level of originality and ingenuity in a scientific work in biomedical engineering.  The awardee must be within 5 years of receiving his or her highest degree.   (5 years at the time of application deadline).
Because selection of the awardee will largely be based on the review of a single published paper describing original work, if the candidate is not the sole author of the manuscript, she/he must be the first or senior author and the manuscript must be accompanied by a letter from the first or senior co-author attesting to the role of each contributor in design, execution and authoring the manuscript.

The applicant must be a BMES Member in good standing.

The award consists of a plaque, a complimentary registration for the annual meeting, a $1,000 check and travel expenses up to $1,000.

Please fill out the official application form and attach all necessary documents and submit it to BMES by May 31st.  Electronic submission is strongly recommended.  Please email regina@bmes.org with any questions.