[ecoop-info] Call for IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) Awards *February 1, 2022*

[BENCOMO, NELLY]

Dear SE community,

Please submit your nominations for the following IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) Awards by * February1*, 2022:
https://tc.computer.org/tcse/2022-tcse-awards-call-nominations/

Past and current awards can be found at https://tc.computer.org/tcse/awards/

The IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) requests nominations of distinguished individuals and teams for its annual international awards. Each award includes an award plaque that will be presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) along with a public citation for the award on the IEEE TCSE website.

Important Dates
Nomination deadline: February 1, 2022

Notification of awards: March 30, 2022

Award presentation at ICSE 2022

TCSE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
The TCSE Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to an individual for outstanding and/or sustained contributions and service to the software engineering community.

TCSE DISTINGUISHED EDUCATION AWARD
The TCSE Distinguished Education Award is presented annually to an individual for outstanding and/or sustained contributions to software engineering education.

TCSE DISTINGUISHED SYNERGY AWARD
The TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award is presented annually to a team for outstanding and/or sustained contributions that stand as a model in the software engineering community of effective partnership between industry and universities.

TCSE DISTINGUISHED WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (WISE) LEADERSHIP AWARD
The TCSE Distinguished WISE Leadership Award is presented annually to an individual for outstanding and/or sustained leadership in the software engineering community to encourage women to explore science and engineering career paths

TCSE RISING STAR AWARD
TCSE Rising Star Award is presented annually to an individual whose early-career research has had a significant impact on the Software Engineering discipline, who has completed a PhD no more than 10 years ago at the time of nomination, and who has exceeded expectations for an individual of their experience in at least two of: teaching, leadership in the Software Engineering community, research, and disseminating software engineering concepts and practices.

TCSE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The TCSE Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually to an individual who has contributed a lifetime of outstanding and sustained contributions to the software engineering community.

TCSE NEW DIRECTIONS AWARD
The TCSE New Directions Award is presented annually to an individual or team who have made substantial contributions to software engineering research or practice where these contributions moved the field in a new direction.

Eligibility
-A nominee must be an IEEE Computer Society and TCSE member at the time of nomination (unless the nominee is an institution).
-Nomination Package
-Nominator: name, address, phone number, email address, and IEEE number of the person making the nomination.
-Nominee: name, address, phone number, email address, and IEEE number of the individual (not self-nominated) or institution for whom an award is recommended.
-A paragraph (200-500 words) explaining why the nominee deserves the recommended award.
-Supporting letters from two people in addition to the nominator.
-The vitae or detailed biographical summary of the nominee, or document highlighting the story of the institution, mission/goals, and what its impact has been on software engineering.
-Submission of Nomination Package
-A nomination package should be emailed, as a single file attachment in PDF, to tcse-awards at computer.org with the subject line “Submission 2022 TCSE Name of the Award”.

General inquiries about the TCSE Awards may be directed to the 2022 TCSE Awards Chair, Nelly Bencomo <n.bencomo at durham.ac.uk> and Tim Menzies <timm at ieee.org>.

TCSE Awards Selection Process
-TCSE Chair appoints the TCSE Awards Chair annually who serves at most two consecutive years.
-The TCSE Awards Chair in consultation with the TCSE Chair appoints an Award Selection Chair and Committee Members for each award. Please see the criteria for each award on the IEEE TCSE website.
-Each Award Selection Chair will follow the selection criteria for that award and submit the recommendation to the TCSE Awards Chair.
-There is flexibility in the process and criteria (e.g., move nominees to a more suitable category).
-The TCSE Awards Chair will review the selection process and approve or disapprove the recommendation based on conformance with the selection process and criteria.
-The TCSE Awards Chair will submit the final recommendations for approval to the TCSE Chair.
-The TCSE Chair will submit the final recommendations for approval to IEEE.

Nelly Bencomo and Tim Menzies
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Dr Nelly Bencomo
Associate Professor in CS
Durham University
email:
nelly.bencomo at durham.ac.uk<mailto:nelly.bencomo at durham.ac.uk>
nelly at acm.org<mailto:nelly at acm.org>
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/nelly-bencomo/
http://www.nellybencomo.me