Recognition-and-Awards
The IEEE Pikes Peak Section (PPS) is revitalizing a recognition and awards program in 2022 to help recognize active and engaged volunteer members and students in the IEEE Pikes Peak Section in the section. Here are some recent recognition events or awards for the IEEE Pikes Peak Section.
In addition, the PPS is in the early stages in developing more incentive awards and recognition with regards to self-leadership, team leadership and organizational leadership. You can find more information at: r5.ieee.org/pikespeak/incentive-program-2/
Congratulations to the following new IEEE Senior Members. As these new members receive their plaque, their plaques will be posted here!
Here’s a compilation of photos in pdf of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section (PPS) event held on 27 Jan 2025. You can download the pdf here: Photos of 2025 Recognition and Awards.
This is a slideshow version of more photos from the event.
If you have questions or need about the Senior Application or need two persons for endorsements,, please contact, Dr John Santiago, David Bondurant, or visit the contact-us webpage.
Some Information on IEEE Life Senior Member
For those who want to find out how to become a senior member, you can visit here for more information: Senior Member Application | IEEE Pikes Peak Section. And if you have questions or need to two persons for endorsements, please contact, Dr John Santiago or David Bondurant, or visit the contact-us webpage.
Life Senior Member
Since Dr Santiago was the Section Chair during Jan 2019 – Feb 2023, he applied for the upgrade during 2022, both as a senior member and a life member to encourage Section Members to apply for this upgrade after being a IEEE member for 40 years. Dr Santiago suggests not to wait that long in becoming a Senior Member of IEEE.
For those who meet qualifications, the IEEE system will recognize those Senior Members who have become life members.
Congrats to Gene Freeman for being the recipient of the Jim Leonard Award!
This award will be given to an individual MEMBER who has performed outstanding service to the Section, Region, and/or IEEE that promotes the objectives of the IEEE.
Lesson Learned: Gene Freeman was submitted with another award, in 2022, although he did not receive the award last year, the Section build upon the earlier submission and learned more about the various awards found in IEEE.
Also, LMAG members are not here for awards but are here to help the other members and young professionals leverage the vast experience from the LMAG members.
The LMAG members would like to help the Young Professionals transition into a Section/Chapter Leadership role. Please contact one of the Section Officers if you would like to be considered in a future leadership role within the section or participate in one of the technical event as well as other events such as STEAM/STEM.
Your participation in IEEE does not require a large amount of time as we have developed the volunteer and support tools to make collaboration and other events easier for you to participate.
See the various career paths found at: Contributions & Stories of LMAG Members | IEEE Pikes Peak Section
The funding of this effort is a result of collaboration among the IEEE Pikes Peak Section, the Computer Society and the Life Member Affinity Group. Several section meetings were held to make between the IEEE Pikes Peak Section and the National World War II Aviation Museum during 2021 and 2022. This was a true team and Leadership effort among the Section/Chapter/Affinity Group collaborating. Those involve making this award possible are Gene Freeman (Chair, Computer Society), John Reinert (Section Treasurer) , David Bondurant (Chair, Life Member Affinity Group) and Dr John Santiago (Section Chair).
2019-2022 Highlights. This web section highlights key initiatives providing services and content to help members in the Pikes Peak Section progress in their careers as well as having links to navigate various activities and content on the website.
2019-2022, State of the Pikes Peak Section. This event was an in-person meeting held at Old Chicago on 16 Feb 2023. Online digital flipbooks are posted to document the event. Certificates of Appreciation were given to key leaders within the Section as well as the Pikes Peak Section Award Plaques. A photo Album as a digital flipbook of award recipients is posted. Digital flipbooks of presentations by Daniel Thomson and John Santiago are posted as well. Daniel Thomson, Young Professional and Student Branch Coordinator, provided a report of the 2023 Rising Stars Conference. Dr. John Santiago provided key highlights of events and initiatives that occurred during 2019-2022 as well as a brief discussion on leadership & Engineering week.
In summary,
- The presentations and award photos of the meeting are provided as digital flipbooks.
- Results of the survey are presented as a digital flipbook as well.
- An IEEE embroidered T-shirt drawing of three t-shirts was held for those who submitted a survey to help with the transition and succession leadership planning.
2019-2022, Meetings. This section provides a list of meetings between the beginning of 2019 and the end of 2022. It has active links so you can see the description of past meetings.
The website serves multiple purposes: automated real-time Section events & reports via vtools, resume/CV of Section, historical archive of Section activities, and information insurance…that is it’s there when you need it.
Plans to migrate the Section website to Region 5 are forthcoming: migrating from https://site.ieee.org/pikespeak to https://r5.ieee.org/pikespeak. Hopefully, the migration is a smooth one.