Emerging Leader Service Award

The Emerging Leader Service Award, established in 2005, recognizes Society Members who have made significant contributions to organizational units of the Society and its Members and have no more than 10 years of accumulated membership. Years of student membership are not included in the limitation. Contributions must include a minimum of four years of progressive leadership positions and documentation of the breadth and depth of the accomplishments and responsibilities.

2009 Honorees

Citation:

For demonstrating early leadership accomplishments benefiting the Society and its Members.

Murtaza Gandhi

Baton Rouge Section
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

About: Gandhi, an ISA member for six years, assumed leadership roles while a student member in the Nirma Institute of Technology Student Section (India) serving as an officer and Section Secretary. He later joined the ISA Baton Rouge Section and has continued his leadership serving as Section Webmaster, Vice President, and President.

Gandhi is a Control Systems Engineer at Jacobs Engineering in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Seth Olson

Southern San Joaquin Valley Section
PLCs Plus International, Bakersfield, California, USA

About: Olson, an ISA member for nine years, has assumed leadership roles in the Southern San Joaquin Valley Section serving as Program Chair, Webmaster, Secretary, President-elect, President, and Society Delegate. He has a reputation as the “go to guy” who can be counted on to get things done.

Olson is a Control Systems Engineer with PLCs Plus International of Bakersfield, California, USA.

Award and Presentation:

The Emerging Leader Service Award may be conferred annually to not more than ten (10) ISA members. The Award presentation consists of a plaque and pin presented to each recipient during the annual honors and awards program.

Qualifications:

This award was established to give Society-wide recognition to members with no more than ten (10) years of accumulated membership, whose service has contributed significantly to the Society and its organizational units. Years of student membership are not included in the limitation. Candidates will be considered only after completing a minimum of four years of progressive leadership positions and the documenting of the breadth and depth of accomplishments and responsibilities. A minimum of three years must have elapsed following receipt of a Society level service award (an award made by the Society Honors & Awards Committee) and/or membership on the Society Executive Board, Society Board of Department Vice Presidents, or Society Board of District Vice Presidents in order to be considered. No individual may receive this award more than once.

Nomination:

Nominations are accepted from any member. The Honors and Awards Committee may select up to a maximum of ten (10) Emerging Leader Service Award recipients. Nominations are made in writing on the appropriate form.

Previous Honorees:

2007 A. Buchanan
2007 D. MacKerron
2007 D. Robinson
2007 S. Worthington
2008 J. Blair
2008 A. Ovodenko, Ph.D.