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IEEE-USA Awards Nominations Now Being Accepted; Deadline is 31 July

WASHINGTON (25 April 2005) — Before Dr. Charles P. Rubenstein and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) were honored with 2004 IEEE-USA awards for engineering professionalism and distinguished public service, respectively, they had to be nominated. Now is your opportunity to nominate someone for a 2005 award.

IEEE-USA's distinguished awards are presented to U.S. IEEE members in recognition of professional, technical and literary contributions to public awareness and understanding of the engineering profession in the United States. They are administered under the IEEE-USA Awards and Recognition Committee and approved by the organization's Board of Directors. Recipients are honored each year at an awards ceremony held during the IEEE-USA Leadership Workshop.

The nomination deadline is 31 July 2005.

For more information, visit the IEEE-USA Awards and Recognition Web page at www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/awards, or contact Sandra Kim at sandra.kim@ieee.org.

IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the IEEE. It was created in 1973 to advance the public good and promote the careers and public policy interests of the more than 220,000 technology professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.

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