The IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1986. It is presented to an IEEE member for distinguished service to the development, viability, advancement, and pursuit of the technical objectives of the IEEE.
Recipients of this award receives a bronze medal, illuminated certificate, honorarium, and travel expenses to award ceremony.
Richard M. Emberson was the executive director of the IEEE. Before that, he was the assistant to the President of Associated Universities, Inc, and then, in 1957, the project manager for the development of Green Bank, West Virginia of NRAO.
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