{"id":31108,"date":"2023-10-12T16:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.engr.uconn.edu\/?p=31108"},"modified":"2023-12-05T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T14:47:50","slug":"academy-of-distinguished-engineers-nominations-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/10\/academy-of-distinguished-engineers-nominations-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy of Distinguished Engineers Nominations Now Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the\u00a0UConn College of Engineering\u00a0inducts\u00a0individuals,\u00a0who have had\u00a0profound impacts\u00a0on the field of Engineering,\u00a0into our Academy of Distinguished Engineers.\u00a0\u00a0Since 1983, we have paid special tribute to\u00a0individuals in two categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Distinguished Professional Achievement Award &#8211; Alumni:\u00a0<\/strong>Recognizing exceptionally distinguished alumni whose career achievements are of an enduring seminal nature.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distinguished Engagement Award \u2013 non-alumni:<\/strong>\u00a0Recognizing\u00a0dedicated individuals who have made dramatic and enduring contributions to our School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On our 40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary the Academy introduced\u00a0a third honor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The GOLD Rising Star Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Celebrating two\u00a0outstanding young<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>alumni who graduated less\u00a0than\u00a010 years ago\u00a0and have shown a significant influence on the engineering field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2024 marks the 41<sup>st<\/sup> year that the\u00a0College will induct new members\u00a0into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers.\u00a0 Please assist us in identifying superb nominees for these awards; self-nominations are also welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>To nominate a candidate, please complete your nomination via this link &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/s.uconn.edu\/engr-academy-nomination\"><strong>https:\/\/s.uconn.edu\/engr-academy-nomination<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0by February 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2024.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions regarding the nomination process, please contact Noreen Wall (<a href=\"mailto:noreen.wall@uconn.edu\">noreen.wall@uconn.edu<\/a> ).<\/p>\n<p>We hope you will take this opportunity to acknowledge the contributions of one of our outstanding engineering graduates or friends of the UConn College of Engineering.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 marks the 41st year that the\u00a0College will induct new members\u00a0into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":30701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-31108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 15:13:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207568,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31108\/revisions\/207568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/30701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31108"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=31108"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}