Nominations Sought for Doug Ensor Award

You are invited to submit nominations for the Doug Ensor Award for 2009. The section will select its strongest candidate and forward it to the Peninsula Engineer Council for their consideration.
The Award, instituted in 1998 by the PEC, is given in recognition of an individual’s contribution to the profession for significant technical accomplishments and community involvement. The Award is intended to recognize an individual’s accomplishments in the early phases of his/her career and will be presented at the PEC Annual Awards Banquet during National Engineer’s Week.
The nomination must contain up to a three page biographical sketch outlining the candidate’s record of achievement, no more than three letters of recommendation, and a recent photograph that may be used for publicity purposes. A candidate must be less than 35 years of age and have less than 15 years of professional experience as of December 1, 2008. The candidate also must be actively practicing in the engineering field either in technical analysis, management, research, operations, maintenance, sales, or teaching, and shall have worked or been a resident of the Peninsula area for at least two years as of December 1, 2008. The Peninsula area of Virginia is defined as the cities of Hampton, Poquoson, Newport News, and Williamsburg and the counties of James City and York. The candidate’s accomplishments should be clearly outstanding relative to those of his/her peers. Equal weighting will be given in five areas to be considered by the Awards Selection Committee, and will include: technical accomplishments, leadership, service to professional societies, community service, and the content of the candidate’s letters of endorsement. Professional licensing is not a requirement, nor is membership in a professional engineering or technical society.
Your nomination package must be delivered to the Hampton Roads Awards Committee Chair by 14 November 2008. The Hampton Roads Executive Committee will make their selection at our Novembeer meeting and forward our nomination to the PEC before 1 December. The DEA committee will make its decision and present its recommendation to the full PEC during its January meeting for Council approval.
If you have any questions or would like to submit a package for consideration, please contact the Hampton Roads Awards Chair, Dan Ulinski.