HFES Awards

HFES members and nonmembers may nominate worthy candidates for the awards noted below. Candidates need not be members of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The invitation to submit award nominations is published in the January issue of the HFES Bulletin. The deadline for receipt of nominations is generally 60 days later but varies each year (see the Bulletin announcement for the deadline). Candidates for the award may self-nominate or ask collegues to submit nominations on their behalf.

For 2008 awards, the deadline for submissions was March 31, 2008.

To submit a nomination for one of the awards, the nominating member must

• submit the candidate's résumé or curriculum vitae, a nominating letter, and at least two and not more than three letters of support from individuals who know the candidate well enough to assess his or her candidacy in terms of the award's criteria; and
• send all nomination packages to HFES, c/o Lynn Strother, P.O. Box 1369, Santa Monica, CA 90406-1369, or lynn@hfes.org. E-mail submissions are strongly preferred; please submit the package as a single file in PDF format.

Nominations are sought for the following awards:

Distinguished International Colleague Award. This award recognizes a non-U.S. citizen who has made outstanding contributions to the human factors/ergonomics field.

Paul M. Fitts Education Award. This award recognizes a person who has made exceptional contributions to the education and training of HF/E specialists. Candidates should either be currently or previously engaged in college or university teaching of human factors material or should have written significant textbooks in the field. The principal criteria for evaluation are the influence that the candidate has had on students and/or how extensively the candidate's work has been used by educators in general. If the criterion for the award is student influence, as many as five testimonials from current or previous students may be submitted in addition to the curriculum vitae and letters of recommendation.

A. R. Lauer Safety Award. This award recognizes a person for outstanding contributions to human factors aspects in the broad area of safety. This includes HF/E work that has led to reduced accidents and injuries in such areas as industry, aviation, surface transportation, and consumer products.

Alexander C. Williams, Jr., Design Award. This award is intended to recognize those who have made outstanding contributions to the conception or design of any product, service, or system that has had a significant impact on users and exemplifies the excellent use of empirical HF/E design principles. In addition to the curriculum vitae or résumé and letters of support, other evidence of the success of the design will be accepted, such as testimonials from users' performance evaluations or papers or reports that substantiate the extent to which the submission is based on experimentally derived human factors design principles.

Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award. This award honors a person for significant efforts to extend or diversify the application of HF/E principles and methods to new areas of endeavor.

Oliver Keith Hansen Outreach Award. This award recognizes members and nonmembers who engage in significant activities that broaden awareness of the existence of the human factors/ergonomics profession and the benefits it brings to humankind.

Award winners are notified prior to the HFES Annual Meeting and are recognized during the opening plenary session.

HFES also presents the following awards each year, which are not open for nominations:

• Jerome H. Ely Human Factors Article Award for the best paper published in the previous year's volume
• Best Ergonomics in Design Article Award for the best article published in the previous year's volume
• Arnold M. Small President's Distinguished Service Award
• Alphonse Chapanis Student Paper Award for the best student paper

The complete list of award recipients is published in the HFES Directory and Yearbook .