The IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition was established by the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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 (IEEE) in 1985. This award is presented "for exceptional managerial leadership in the fields of interest to the IEEE". Recipients of this award will receive a certificate and a crystal sculpture.

The award was initially called the IEEE Engineering Leadership Recognition Award‎, but in 1996 renamed to honor Ernst Weber

Ernst Weber (engineer)

Ernst Weber , Austria-born American electrical engineer, was a pionier in microwave technologies and played an important role in the history of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where in 1945 he founded the Microwave Research Institute Ernst Weber (September 6, 1901 Vienna, Austria...

. He was the first President of the IEEE and one of the founders of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

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.

Recipients

Following people received the IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition:

• 1986: William C. Norris
• 1986: Kenneth H. Olsen
• 1987: Andrew S. Grove
• 1988: Ralph E. Gomory
  Ralph E. Gomory
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• 1989: Arnaldo M. Angelini
• 1989: Roland W. Schmitt
  Roland W. Schmitt
  Roland Walter Schmitt is a physicist, business executive and was the sixteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.He was born on July 24, 1923 in Seguin, Texas to Walter L. Schmitt and Myrtle F. Schmitt. On June 2, 1951 he married Alice V. Calhoun and they had two sons: Lorenz and...
  
  
• 1990: Irwin Dorros
• 1990: Edson Fregni
• 1991: Seymour R. Cray
• 1992: Bernard M. Gordon
• 1993: Percy Barnevik
  Percy Barnevik
  Percy Nils Barnevik is a Swedish business executive, best known as CEO and later Chairman of Asea Brown Boveri 1988–2002, and for being the centre of a giant pension dispute that shook Sweden in 2003.-Background:...
  
  
• 1994: Clarence G. Thornton
• 1995: John B. Terry
• 1996: Alan G. Chynoweth
• 1996: Sol Triebwasser
• 1997: William J. Weisz
• 1997: John H. Crawford
• 1998: Jerome Swartz
  Jerome Swartz
  Dr. Jerome Swartz is a physicist that developed early optical strategies for barcode scanning technologies in the United States and co-founded the corporation, Symbol Technologies on Long Island, NY with physicist partner, Dr. Shelley A. Harrison in 1973. Jerry was President, becoming the Chairman...
  
  
• 1998: Angus McMillan Tait
• 1999: Bernard S. Meyerson
• 2000: Joel S. Birnbaum
• 2001: Michael J. Birck
• 2001: Chris Earnshaw
• 2002: No Award
• 2003: William J. Spencer
• 2004: Pasquale Pistorio
  Pasquale Pistorio
  Pasquale Pistorio is an Italian company director, ex president of STMicroelectronics and board member of Confindustria. From 17 April 2007 until 3 December 2007 he was president of Telecom Italia. He graduated in Electrical Engineering, his early career was at Motorola where he became the European...
  
  
• 2005: No Award
• 2006: No Award
• 2007: N. R. Narayana Murthy
  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• 2008: No Award
• 2009: No Award
• 2010: Hidehito Obayashi