WICE Mentorship Award

Aim

To recognize members of IEEE ComSoc who have made a strong commitment to mentoring WICE members, have had a significant positive impact on their mentees’ education and career, and who, through their mentees, have advanced communications engineering.

Award

The WICE Mentorship Award will be presented in each calendar year. A maximum of one award will be given per year. If no suitable candidate is nominated in a given year, the award will not be presented for that year. Recognition for this award will be in the form of a plaque.

Nomination Procedure

Nominations will be submitted using the link on WICE’s webpage. The nominations should include a concise description of the candidate’s accomplishments as related to their mentoring activities. Any person may nominate a candidate for the award, except the members of the WICE Mentorship Award Selection Committee.

Eligibility Criteria

Any individual, except for members of the WICE Mentorship Award Selection Committee or their mentors, may be nominated for the award, if the following criteria are met:

● the candidate must be an IEEE ComSoc Member at the time of nomination;
● the candidate must have made significant contributions in terms of mentoring WICE members;
● the candidate cannot be a recipient of the award in the year previous to the nomination.

Award Selection Committee

The recipient of the WICE Mentorship Award is decided by the WICE Mentorship Award Selection Committee, which is chaired by the WICE Chair. The committee also consists of the other WICE officers plus one additional WICE member nominated by the Award Selection Committee Chair.

Support for the Award

The WICE Mentorship Award plaque is supported by the IEEE ComSoc.

Award Presentation

The award will be presented either at the IEEE Globecom or ICC conferences or at the WICE biennial workshop.