SIGMA GAMMA TAU
Annual Undergraduate Awards
The Sigma Gamma Tau Undergraduate Awards serve to select
outstanding Aerospace Engineering students at both the regional and national
levels. The regional winners receive a plaque and a $200 award. The national
winner, who is selected from the regional winners, will receive the Ammon S. Andes
National Award and an additional $200 (for a total of $400). The real purpose of
these awards is to recognize the accomplishments of these young students as they
start their professional careers.
Each chapter may nominate one (and only one) student for
the annual undergraduate awards. Nominees must complete a
nomination form (including attachments A
and B and the goals statement), and submit it to the National Vice-President.
Deadline for RECEIPT of the nomination form via e-mail is 5pm
(central time) on the last Monday of February. The electronic version
must be followed by a signed paper copy of the nomination form along with official
transcript covering all college or university courses taken through the fall
quarter or semester AND a copy of the applicant's Sigma Gamma Tau
membership certificate. Deadline for receipt of the signed copy, transcript, and
membership certificate (via post or FEDEX) is the first Monday of March. The
membership certificate serves as proof of membership in Sigma Gamma Tau. If you
do not have a membership certificate with an embossed seal, there is a very good
chance that your chapter has not submitted the proper paperwork and paid the
membership dues to National Headquarters. The applicant is ineligible for this
award competition if the proper membership paperwork and dues are not received by
National Headquarters PRIOR to the electronic deadline date (i.e.
the last Monday in February). This is true even if the student had been
"initiated" locally because National will recognize a student's membership only
if proper paperwork and dues are filed with National Headquarters. This rule
applies without exception (backdated paperwork will not be accepted after the
last Monday in February deadline date) even if someone else was responsible for
submitting the membership paperwork and dues. The National Secretary can verify
whether membership paperwork and dues were received prior to the electronic
deadline date (i.e. the last Monday in February) for those applicants who do not
have a copy of their membership certificate.
Participating chapters will receive an engraved name
plate with the name of the chapter nominee so that it can be added to the names
of previous nominees on the chapter award plaque. In this manner the selected
students will "forever" be honored at their alma mater. During the 2006 National
Convention, a decision was made to send a stole to each participating chapter.
This stole should be worn by the chapter nominee at his/her graduation. However,
National encourages the idea that the chapter maintain custody of the stole so
that it can subsequently be stockpiled for rental in future graduation ceremonies.
The idea of tracking the names of those who have worn a particular stole at their
graduation has been suggested. (Think about being able to wear the same stole as
a well-known alumnus at your graduation.) Rather than renting stoles for a fee,
some chapters have suggested offering stoles to those who have earned the most
service points in their chapter.
Additional information and forms:
Profile of Professor Ammon S. Andes
Nomination Form
Award Statistics (in Excel format*)
*Depending on browser or configuration, you may have to do the following in
order to download an Excel file - after you open the file page, use the "SAVE PAGE
AS" command (under the "FILE" command) to save it as an XLS format file. If this
does not work, please contact the National Secretary-Treasurer to get the file via
e-mail.
