The Medallion Award

Recognizes individuals that have made a notable impact on the industrial engineering profession through any of the following ways:

• Exceptional leadership as an advisor in developing and promoting young engineers
• Creating a body of knowledge for the practice of industrial engineering
• Innovation in organizing educational materials that advances the development of industrial engineers
• Significant impact on the productivity of a company through applications of industrial engineering methods

Eligibility:

IIE members. Members of the IIE Board of Trustees and Honors Steering Committee are ineligible.

Criteria:

No more than three per year are awarded. The criteria for the award fall into two categories:

• Professional leadership: Specific accomplishment of distinction through advising and mentoring students and entry-level industrial engineers, to include innovative means of stimulating programs, curricula, laboratory, and design projects that are worthy of special recognition.
• Professional technical achievement: Specific achievement of distinction through novel development of methods or techniques for improving a process and demonstrates distinctive qualities through significant documented improvements of operations, productivity, quality or customer satisfaction.

Nomination process:

• Complete and return the nomination form.
• There is a 10-page limit to each nomination, not including references.