Standards Medallion

Standards Medallion

The Standards Medallion is awarded for major contributions to the development of standards. Examples include but are not limited to the following:

  • Leadership in standardization of new technologies
  • Assuring achievement of standards development goals
  • Identifying opportunities to better serve the needs of standards users
  • Other contributions viewed as deserving of such recognition

Award

The award consists of a 1 1/2 inch Standards “medallion” and brass plate engraved with the recipient’s name and year of the award affixed to a 2×3 marble paperweight. It is accompanied by a framed certificate. There is no honorarium attached to this award.

Honorees

The award is presented by the IEEE SA President at the SA Awards Ceremony

  • Recipient honored at the IEEE SA Awards Ceremony (see previous ceremony)
  • Honoree highlight via press release
  • Recognition on IEEE SA website and social media post

Eligibility

Recipients need not be members of IEEE, and their contributions may be to standards of other national and international standardization bodies, providing such standards are in the fields of IEEE and constitute a significant contribution to the profession. There are no restrictions or preferences as to the nationality, race, sex, creed or age.

Nomination

Annual Deadline 31 July

Nominate a Party for this Award

Sponsorship

This award is sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association, administered by the IEEE SA Awards and Recognition Committee.

Standards Medallion Past Recipients

2023

Jyotika Athavale

For leadership, technical expertise, and guidance in the development of IEEE 2851™-2023, IEEE Standard for Functional Safety Data Format for Interoperability Within the Dependability Lifecycle

Alla Deronja

For ongoing leadership and contributions to the development of standards in the field of power system protection

Eddie Forouzan

For exceptional leadership and contributions to the development of IEEE 1725™-2021, IEEE Standard for Rechargeable Batteries for Cellular Telephones

Joel Goergen

For longtime technical contributions and leadership in the development of IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet standards

Chad Jones

For contributions, leadership, and expertise in Power over Ethernet, combining power distribution with data networking

John Jendzurski

For exceptional leadership in the development of a new IEEE performance and test method standard for down-the-road radar

Elizabeth Kochuparambil

For impact and leadership in high-speed electrical interface IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet standards

Rui Li

For contributions to the development of standards for energy-efficiency testing and evaluation of power fittings and conductors

Douglas M. Logan

For outstanding leadership in revising IEEE 762™-2023 to include variable energy resources, also referred to as renewable generation

John Haiying Lu

For leadership in standardization in the area of unmanned aerial vehicle applications and communications

Kent Lusted

For outstanding leadership and contributions to the development of multiple generations of the IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet standard

Sergio Rapuano

For outstanding leadership, determination, and dedication in the development of IEEE 2414™-2020, IEEE Standard for Jitter and Phase Noise

Kate A. Remley

For exceptional technical leadership as the working group chair driving the development of IEEE 1765™-2022

Michael Dean Sigmon Sr.

For influential leadership in the IEEE Power & Energy Society Switchgear Committee and for advancing new methods of educating users, manufacturers, students, and industry

Torbjørn Skauli

For outstanding technical contributions to the development of IEEE P4001™ on the characterization and testing of hyperspectral camera units

Günter Steindl

For outstanding contributions to, and constructive efforts in, the IEEE 802.1™ Working Group

Karla Trost

For exceptional leadership and contributions to the development of IEEE C37.75™-2023 and IEEE PC37.68™

Miao Wang

For exceptional leadership and contributions to the development of IEEE 2785™-2023

2022

Stephen Antosz

For continuing long-term leadership and contributions to the development of transformer standards

Sara R. Biyabani

For leading the development of IEEE P1924.1™-2022

Matt Brown

For exceptional leadership and contributions to the development of IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet standards

Cheng-Jen (Allen) Chen

For leadership as standards chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Paul T. Congdon

For long-term advocacy and for significant contributions that advanced Ethernet bridging technologies in the data center

Jeffrey A. Fordham

For continuous leadership of the revision of IEEE Std149™-2021

Ruth Lewis

For leadership in promoting the development of IEEE technology and society standards

Adam W Ley

For significant contributions to IEEE test technology standards

Gary Nicholl

For longtime technical and editorial leadership of IEEE802.3™ Ethernet standards

Mark Nowell

For leadership, technical expertise, and the provision of sage guidance through many IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet projects

Yonghong Tian

For exceptional leadership and skill in driving the development of IEEE standards on AI model representation, and compression and analysis-oriented visual data coding

Gary Touryan

For long-term leadership of the IEEE Traction Power Standards Committee

2021

Bob Aiello

For sustained leadership in the development of practical, advanced standards for DevOps and configuration management

Edward Au

For exceptional leadership and skill in driving the development of IEEE 802.11™ Wireless LAN standards

Matthew J. Butcher

For dedication and perseverance in contributing to, and fostering the development of, a substantially revised and improved IEEE Std C95.3™-2021

Geoffrey Garner

For contributions to and education about the standardization of timing and synchronization for telecommunications networks

S. Michael Gayle

For longtime leadership and advocacy for jointly developed IEEE and ISO/IEC JTC1 standards for systems and software engineering and software quality

Marc Holness

For pioneering contributions and leadership to describe and implement data modeling using YANG in IEEE 802®

Peter Zollman

For outstanding effort and steadfast persistence in leading the development of a substantially revised and improved IEEE C95.3™-2021

2020

János Farkas

For exceptional skill in championing the standardization development of time-sensitive networking

Wenpeng Luan

For leadership and contributions to the development of standards in the field of distributed energy resource integration

Thomas A. Prevost

For ongoing leadership and contributions to the development of IEEE transformer standards and the standards development process

Peter Reid Wilson

For leadership in standards and technology roadmapping in power electronics

2019

Doug Edwards

For outstanding achievement in circuit breaker and switchgear standards development

Kirsten Matheus

For vision, leadership, and contributions to developing automotive Ethernet networking

Pratap Mysore

For contributions to the development of standards in the field of power systems protection

Jeff Rearick

For years of tireless, enthusiastic service furthering the development efforts of IEEE standards in the test domain

Duane Remein

For contributions to access networks (EPON, EPOC, and BiDi)

Craig Schlenoff

For significant contributions to IEEE standards by serving as the associate vice president of standardization in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, chairing the core ontologies of robotics standards group, and serving as the vice chair of the robot task representation standards group

James Edward Smith

For sustained leadership and contributions to the development of transformer standards

2018

David Chalupsky
Roy Cideciyan
Paul R. Croll
Alan Flatman
Rich Kennedy
Bernard Metzler
Stephen Shull

2017

Mark Adamiak
Alfred Asterjadhi
Jeffrey A. Burnworth
Carlos Cordeiro
Benjamin Cotts
Chengwei Dai
Victor Huang
Charles W. Johnson, Jr.
Glen Kramer
Leonardo Lima
Richard Mellitz
Bertrand Poulin
George Zimmerman

2016

Bruce B. Barrow
Kerry Blinco
Ted A. Burse
Carole C. Carey
Sudhakar E. Cherukupalli
Robert S. Fish
James R. Frysinger
Anthony Ki Cheong Ho
Abhay Karandikar
Brad Lehman
Michael J. Thompson
Mehmet Ulema
Michael W. Wactor
C.T. (Tim) Wall
Jan J. Wittenber

2015

William J. Bergman
Alfred Crouch
Chris DiMinico
Vinko Erceg
Alexander D. Gelman
Stephen Haddock
Apurva N. Mody
Paul S. Schluter

2014

Pete Anslow
Malcolm Clarke
Jean-Philippe Faure
Norman Finn
Lowell Johnson
Jim LeClare
Ken Martin
Brian Reinhold
David Stone
Philip Winstona

2013

Hanna Abdallah
Michael Bennett
Kenneth Brown
Christopher Clark
John D’Ambrosia
Wael Diab
Ramsis Girgis
Adam Healey
Oleg Logvinov
Albert Martin
Robin Tasker
James Wilson

2012

Douglas Bogia
Michael Champagne
Philip Hopkinson
James Liming
Robert Nowell
Purva Rajkotia
Anne Marie Sahazizian
Adrian Stephens

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