UFFC Awards

This award recognizes technical contributions in the fields of atomic and molecular frequency standards, time transfer, and frequency and time metrology.

Nomination Deadline: April 15, 2024

This award recognizes entrepreneurship or leadership in the frequency control community; or outstanding contributions in the development, production, or characterization of resonator materials or structure.

Nomination Deadline: April 15, 2024

This award recognizes technical contributions in the area of piezoelectric frequency control devices.

Nomination Deadline: April 15, 2024

This award recognizes outstanding contributions to or technical achievements in the field of ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control. Please consider nominating one of our deserving colleagues for this award. 

Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2024

This award recognizes meritorious service to the UFFC Society over a sustained period of time. Typically, this service is sustained support of the UFFC Society activities in an essential capacity, for example, as Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions, or as manager of the Society’s finances, or as Chair of a major Committee, among others.

Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2024

This award recognizes primary investigators that have contributed to the field of ultrasonics. The award candidate has an excellent track record in terms of scholarly publications, technical reports and/or inventions/patents. The award is intended to recognize the investigators for their outstanding mid-career achievements and for promoting the field of Ultrasonics. This award was named for Carl Hellmuth Hertz to honor his pivotal role as both a researcher and as an advisor to others working in the field of medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging.

Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2024

The IEEE UFFC Rayleigh Ultrasonics Award represents the highest honor for achievement within the  IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (UFFC) Society in the field of Ultrasonics. The achievement may be in technical innovations, research, education, publications, and related professional endeavors. The candidate should have demonstrated sustained accomplishments in the field of Ultrasonics for more than 25 calendar years prior to the year of nomination.

Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2024

This award recognizes the achievements of a young researcher in the area of ultrasonics and its applications. The award is specific to those researchers in the early stages of their career. 

Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2024

This award recognizes meritorious achievement in the field of Ferroelectricity or related sciences.

Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2024

This award recognizes the important contributions of young scientists/engineers in reference to their contributions to fundamental research, integration, application, or education.

Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2024

This award recognizes investigators in the field of dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroic materials that have contributed significantly to the understanding of structure-property relations. Given at any stage of the career for an outstanding contribution or for overall contribution to the field during the career. The award is named in honor of Robert E. Newnham to recognize his leading role in understanding the relationships between structure and properties of materials and to honor him as a scientist, teacher and an advisor to numerous researchers and engineers.

Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2024