Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA (CIE-USA) is proud to host the Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) Award for 2009 as part of the National Engineers Week (E-Week) activities in February.
NOTE: the deadline for submitting required documents by sponsors has been extended. See the AAEOY Sponsorship link on th left pane for more detail.
The AAEOY Award is the only program of its kind in the United States. It is a platform to recognize outstanding Asian American professionals for their personal achievements as well as significant contributions in academia, public service and corporate entities. Many of the recipients bring about monumental breakthroughs in science and technology, often with lasting and global impacts.
Previous award recipients include:
Dr. Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel Prize winner in Physics;
Dr. Chang-Lin Tien, former chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley;
Dr. Samuel Ting, the 1976 Nobel Prize winner in Physics;
Dr. Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Physics;
Dr. Yuan-Cheng Fung, Prof. Emeritus, Department of Bioengineering at University of California, San Diego;
Dr. Daniel Chee Tsui, 1998 Nobel Prize winner in Physics;
Dr. Albert Y.C. Yu, former Senior VP of Intel,
Dr. Yuan Tseh Lee, 1986 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry;
..and many other outstanding individuals from corporate America who were presented to us by their corporate sponsors.
The 2008 AAEOY Award Ceremony and Banquet were held on Saturday, 1 March 2008. Information on this event can be accessed through links on the left margin of this page.
The 2009 AAEOY will be the eigth consecutive year that CIE-USA hosts this event. The award winners will be announced through press releases during the US National Engineers Week. The Ceremony and Banquet will be held afterwards in San Jose, California, at the Double Tree Hotel on Saturday, 21 February 2009.
This event has received strong corporate, community, academic and government support. Major sponsors include Lockheed Martin, IBM, Boeing, BP, Cisco, GM, Sandia National Laboratory, Microsoft, ITRI, CTCI, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and TI.
To sponsor the Asian American Engineer of the Year event or to nominate a candidate for the award, please visit the link Sponsorship & Nomination program.
