Recognizes Environmental and Safety Technologies
The IEEE Foundation recently announced that Toyota Motor Corporation will sponsor a new IEEE award, the IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies. This award will recognize outstanding accomplishments in the application of technology in the IEEE fields of interest that improve the environment and/or public safety.
Toyota donated US$300,000 to support the awarding of the IEEE Medal to an individual recipient, or a team of recipients up to three in number, each year, for the years 2010 through 2019.
“One of Toyota Motor Corporation’s core values has been to focus our research and development efforts on automotive environmental and safety technologies. This philosophy prompted us to work with IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, to create the Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies and recognize individuals and organizations that are making a difference, globally,” said Toyota Motor Corporation spokesperson. “Together with IEEE, we look forward to promoting this global movement on sustainability, and the successes achieved by each winner.”
Criteria considered for the award include: public benefits of the contribution; degree of improvement in important performance metrics; innovative design; development or application engineering; favorable influence of the contribution on technical professions. It is relevant to a wide community including power electronics, intelligent transportation systems, wireless communications, sensor networks control, control and automation, computing, and signal processing.
Each recipient of the IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies will receive a gold medal, a bronze replica, a certificate and honorarium. In the event that a team up to three in number is selected, the honorarium will be equally divided.
“A truly joint effort, we are honored to partner with Toyota to bring this award to the global market as an opportunity to recognize outstanding contributions in environmental and safety technologies,” said Lew Terman, President, IEEE. “We hope the IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies will inspire individuals and organizations to develop innovative technologies that will benefit humanity, globally.”
Toyota Motor Corporation acknowledges the cooperation and advice of Prof. Fumio Harashima, Prof. Hiroyuki Sakaki, and Prof. Toshio Fukuda in the establishment of this award. To learn more about this and other IEEE Awards, visit www.ieee.org/awards.
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