Industry-Government Engagement Award (Post)

Industry-Government Engagement Award (Post)

For excellence and leadership in supporting the Society’s Industry-Government Engagement (IGE) Plan by truly making a difference in the areas of project delivery, problem solving, thought leadership, policy, education, or awareness.  This award will recognize Posts that have initiated, led, and finalized an effort from inception to fruition.  The award is criteria dependent (may not be awarded every year but may be awarded to multiple Posts that meet the criteria). 

This award further serves to recognize those Posts who have advanced SAME’s enduring purpose since our beginning in 1920: promote solidarity and cooperation between engineers in civil and military life.

Eligibility

Must be Post in good standing and efforts must be documented in official form via SAME National calendar, SAME Perspectives, TME, Post Annual Report, official policy change or policy/program creation at local, regional, or national levels.

Nomination Criteria

• Outstanding collaboration and support to solving a challenge affecting industry, government, and the industry-government interface from inception to acceptable outcome.  An acceptable outcome can be a contribution to project delivery (e.g. SAME Perspectives), resolution of a challenge, a change to policy, an establishment of a program, or a significant contribution to the awareness of SAME’s role in leading industry-government collaboration.
  Example – Hosted a Post IGE Workshop to define issue, collaborate on possible solutions, track next steps, and document outcome.  White paper was provided to SAME National for dissemination to appropriate stakeholders.

• Outcome must substantially contribute to policy or programs for the benefit of the industry and the nation, placing SAME as a “thought leader” on the subject.

• Post must be directly and collectively involved in planning and coordination of industry-government collaboration leading to the acceptable outcome.

Nomination Process

Nominations for this award must be made by a Society member and endorsed by a current Post President or member of the National Leadership Assembly, using the Society nomination online platform. The individual endorsing the nomination will verify that the Post meets the eligibility criteria for the award, and that the nomination package includes a supporting narrative and documentation of outcomes of the effort.

The nominator is responsible for ensuring the package, with endorsement, is complete and submitted online to SAME National by the deadline.