IEEE Founders Medal

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IEEE award engineering award science and technology award

The IEEE Founders Medal is a prestigious honor awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for outstanding contributions to the electrical and electronics engineering profession and its leadership.

Aliases (1)

IEEE Founder’s Medal ×1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	IEEE award → engineering award → science and technology award →
administeredBy	IEEE Awards Board →
awardCategory	technical field award →
awardedFor	outstanding contributions to the electrical and electronics engineering profession → outstanding leadership in the electrical and electronics engineering profession →
awardingBody	IEEE Board of Directors →
category	IEEE-level medal →
country	United States →
eligibleRecipients	individuals → teams → up to three persons →
field	electrical engineering → electronics engineering → engineering leadership →
firstAwarded	1952 →
follows	IRE Founders Award →
formerName	IRE Founders Award →
frequency	annual →
hasComponent	bronze replica → certificate → gold medal → honorarium →
hasStatus	active →
inception	1952 →
languageOfName	English →
namedAfter	founders of IEEE → founders of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers →
notableRecipient	Andrew S. Grove → Claude E. Shannon → Gordon Moore → Hewlett-Packard founders (William R. Hewlett and David Packard) → Robert N. Noyce →
partOf	IEEE Awards Program →
presentedBy	IEEE → Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers →
selectionBy	IEEE Awards Board →
sponsor	IEEE Foundation → corporate donors → individual donors →
typicalAnnouncementTime	annually at major IEEE events →
website	https://www.ieee.org/awards →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bill Hewlett → Earl Bakken → Jensen Huang ("IEEE Founder’s Medal") → Kazuo Inamori → Leo Beranek → Masaru Ibuka → Shirley Ann Jackson →	awardReceived