Award Selection Process

1. The Awards Chair forms an Awards Committee consisting of past presidents and members from the SMCS Board of Governors to evaluate the nominations. Prior recipients of the Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award and the Norbert Wiener Award may be invited to assist the Awards Committee in the awards selection.
2. The Awards Chair submits a Call for Nominations on the SMCS website. Nominations are due by May 31 unless otherwise extended by the Awards Committee.
3. Editors-in-Chief of the SMC Transactions are invited to submit nominations for the Best Associate Editor Award and the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award.
4. The General Chair and Program Chair of the last SMC conference are invited to submit nominations for the Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award.
5. Vice Presidents for Systems Science & Engineering, Human-Machine Systems, and Cybernetics are invited to submit nominations for the Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award.
6. The Vice President for Membership & Student Activities and the Chapter Coordinators are invited to submit nominations for the Outstanding SMC Chapter Award.
7. The Student Activities Chair forms a subcommittee for evaluation of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Best Student Paper Award. After the judging is completed, names of the winners and basis for decisions are submitted to the Awards Committee Chair.
8. After receiving nominations and supporting information, the Awards Committee evaluates and selects the awardees. Members of the Awards Committee are not eligible for awards for which they participate in the selection process.