On May the 19th, the IEEE Albuquerque Section held its annual awards banquet in collaboration with Sigma-Xi. Here are some pictures of the event.

Professor Harjit Ahluwalia was the master of ceremonies.

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2014 Outstanding Young Engineer: Jose Luis Cruz-Campa (Sandia National Labs). His wife Tara received the award on this behalf.

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2014 Outstanding Entrepreneur: John Maynard (MDDC)

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2014 Outstanding Engineer: Dr. Vince Calhoun (The Mind Research Network / ECE)

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2014 Outstanding Engineering Educator: Ganesh Balakrishnan (CHTM)

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2014 Outstanding Graduate Student: Firas Ayoub (ECE)

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2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Student: John-Mark Collins (ECE)

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Professor Ahluwalia announced his retirement from UNM and received a recognition from Dr. Wolfang Rudolph, Chair of the department of Physics and Astronomy.

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After the awards were presented, Professor V.M. Kenkre gave the talk: Spread of Infection in Epidemics: Random Walks, Nonlinearity, and Extintion.

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On bahalf of the our Section, congratulations again to all the awardees. Our thanks to Professor Ahluwalia for his tireless contributions to our Section, and our thanks to Professor Kenkre for given such an interesting talk.

We look forward to the 2015 award nominations.

Regards,

Gilberto Zamora (Chair)