>Call for Nominations
>2006 CACHE Award for
>Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education
>
>CACHE is soliciting nominations for the recently established CACHE
>Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering
>Education. The intent of this award is to recognize recent
>innovations in the development of computer aids for chemical
>engineering education. CACHE is particularly interested in honoring
>the work of younger educators, or educators making new and novel
>contributions to computer aids for chemical engineering education.
>Educational innovators working in industry or in a company that
>develops computer-based educational aids are also eligible for the
>award. Specifically, the nomination and the citation for the award
>must refer to a significant contribution to computer-based chemical
>engineering education within the past decade. The award consists of a
>plaque and a $500 honorarium. The award will be presented at a
>CACHE-sponsored session at the 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting.
>
>Nominations, consisting of a nomination letter (including the
>citation proposed to be inscribed on the award), two supporting
>letters, and the curriculum vitae of the nominee, should be submitted
>to CACHE Corporation by May 1, 2006. The nominations must be
>submitted electronically by email to cache@uts.cc.utexas.edu. If the
>focus of the award is a particular piece of software or on-line
>educational material, the nomination must include information about
>the number of individuals and/or institutions making use of the
>software, and some mechanism for evaluation of the material/software
>in question, either by attachment of the relevant material or
>provision of a link where it is accessible to CACHE trustees
>evaluating the nomination. The nominator must be a faculty member of
>a CACHE-supporting department or an employee of a company
>participating in the CACHE Industrial Affiliates program, but the
>nominee need not be from either type of organization. [See
>www.cache.org for lists of CACHE-supporting departments and
>industrial affiliates.] Self-nominations are not permitted.
>
>Nominations will be evaluated by a committee composed of members of
>the CACHE Board of Trustees. The committee will recommend an awardee
>to the full CACHE Board of Trustees. The awardee will be confirmed
>by a vote of the Board of Trustees at its summer meeting. Nominators
>and the successful nominee will be informed of the outcome no later
>than September 1, 2006.
>
>Previous Award Winner
>2005: John Eaton, University of Wisconsin, for the development of Octave
>http://www.che.utexas.edu/cache/John%20Eaton-CACHE%20Award.html
>
>About CACHE:
>With over 35 years of distinguished service to the chemical
>engineering community, CACHE (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering)
>is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to promote
>cooperation among universities, industry and government in the
>development and distribution of computer-related and/or
>technology-based educational aids for the chemical engineering
>profession. For more information, see www.cache.org.
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