Through its awards program, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recognizes contributions that advance the fields of interest to the IEEE. For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards Program has paid tribute to technical professionals whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society and the engineering profession. The IEEE Medals and IEEE Technical Field Awards are institution-level awards. They are considered more prestigious than IEEE Society level awards and are administered by IEEE Awards Board. Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors approved the winners of these prestigious medals and awards at their annual board meeting. An IEEE Honors Ceremony is organized and held in New York each year to present the medals and awards to the recipients.
Funds for the awards program, other than those provided by corporate sponsors for some awards, are administered by the IEEE Foundation.
IEEE Medals
IEEE top medal and highest honor
IEEE Medal of Honor
Medals not specific to a technology field
IEEE Edison Medal (IEEE's principal medal for a meritorious career) IEEE Founders Medal (for leadership, planning, and administration) IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal (first presentation scheduled for June 2021) IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal Medals in specific technology areas IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal (for computing, first presentation scheduled for June 2022) IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (for telecommunications engineering) IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (for information theory and coding) IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (for signal processing) IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal (for electronics and telecommunications) IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal (for materials and device sciences) IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal (for microelectronics) IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications IEEE Medal in Power Engineering IEEE Simon Ramo Medal (for systems engineering) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (for computer-related technology) Discontinued medal programs IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal (last awarded in 2001) IEEE Lamme Medal (last awarded in 2002) IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence (last awarded in 2004)
IEEE Technical field awards
Current technical field awards
IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award
IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (for nanotechnology and miniaturization) IEEE Control Systems Award IEEE Electromagnetics Award IEEE Electronics Packaging Award IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award (for solid-state devices) IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award IEEE Internet Award IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award (for industrial systems engineering) IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award (for electronic circuits and systems) IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award IEEE Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award (for emerging technologies) IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits IEEE Frederik Philips Award (for management of research and development) IEEE Photonics Award IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (for information processing systems in computer science) IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award (for space engineering) IEEE Robotics and Automation Award IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (for biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms such as neural networks) IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award (for standardization) IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award (for nuclear and plasma engineering) IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (for communications technology) IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award IEEE Nikola Tesla Award (for power technology) IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (for technologies holding the promise of innovative applications) IEEE Transportation Technologies Award IEEE Glenn F. Knoll Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding Achievement Award IEEE Plasma Science and Applications (PSAC) Award Discontinued technical field awards IEEE David Sarnoff Award (for electronics, last awarded in 2016)