The descriptions of the three Awards of the Alaska Section are as follows:

       1.  Outstanding Engineer Award:

 Award is designed to recognize IEEE members of the Alaska Section who through their technical abilities have made outstanding contributions to their profession. It recognizes the development of new technical concepts, significant patents, development of new devices, development of applications, new designs, significant cost reductions using known techniques, etc.  All nominees are recognized but one will receive the award.

       2.  Outstanding Leadership and Professional Service Award:

Award is designed to recognize IEEE members of the Alaska Section who through their professional and technical abilities have made outstanding and noteworthy contributions to the Institute, their communities, fellow professionals and fellow man. The award is not designed to recognize a single achievement, but rather collective contributions complemented by singular works exemplifying the objectives and attributes of IEEE.

 3. Outstanding Corporate Service to Engineering Community Award

Organizational awards are provided to those companies, or divisions of a company that encourage volunteerism through its practices. In particular, the atmosphere created by the company to facilitate the IEEE volunteer(s) to do his or her job, or supporting the volunteers by permitting free or discounted use of company resources.