Award Winners

2024 IEEE-USA Jim Watson Student Awareness Professional Achievement Award

The Jim Watson Student Awareness Professional Achievement Award recognizes IEEE members, including students, who volunteered their time and shared their professional experiences with students to encourage active, lifelong IEEE membership. Learn more about the IEEE-USA awards here.

Region 6 Awards

2024

Outstanding Small Section of the Year: IEEE Hawaii Section (award accepted by Wayne Layugan)

Outstanding Small Student Branch of the Year: IEEE University of Hawaii at Manoa Student Branch (award accepted by Stephanie Chu)

Outstanding Affinity Group Chapter of the Year: IEEE Hawaii Women In Engineering (award accepted by Jannatun Noor Sameera)

Outstanding Affinity Group Member: Quynh Tran (award accepted by Serena Clark)

Outstanding Corporate Service: Burns & McDonnell (award accepted by Chelcy Gozum)

IEEE-USA Jim Watson Student Professional Awareness Achievement Award: Brianne Tengan

2023

Citation: Through outstanding leadership and vision, implemented programs to retain members, increase IEEE visibility and improve engagement with other professional organizations.

Brianne is the first Hawaii Section member to receive a Region award.

Learn more about Region 6 Awards here.

Hawaii Council of Engineering Societies (HCES) Student Engineer of the Year

2024 – Dylan Sodetani

2021 – Willy Chang

2019 – Sasha Yamada

2017 – George Zhang

2015 – Justin Yoshimoto

2014 – Kevin Shin

2009 – Reece Iwami

2007 – Christy Kaneshiro

2003 – Aaron Ohta

Learn more about HCES awards here.

2024 IEEE Membership Outstanding Recruitment and Retention Performance

IEEE-USA K-12 STEM Literacy Committee Educator-Engineer Partnership Award

2004 – William G. Speed, Jr. (teacher) and Mark R. Rognstad (Engineer)