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National Service Award
Heptode Award
The National Service Award
The National Service Award is NARTE's most prestigious award, which is presented to no more than one individual annually.
The National Service Award is presented to one who has established a lifetime record of distinctive accomplishments or a single act which made a remarkable difference to telecommunications, EMC, ESD, Wireless, or related fields.
The recipient of the award is presented with a commemorative granite plaque by his or her U.S. Senatorial representative. The recipient also designates a college or university of choice to receive a $1,000 scholarship.
Criteria
This award is presented for technical achievement of distinction or exceptional business achievement which has impacted technology.
Individual achievements should be worthy of national recognition, be of a magnitude which made an impact on the industry and be of a nature which characterizes the recipient of this award as an extraordinary individual, whose talents, intellect, capabilities and successes are measurably magnificent.
Download the National Service Award Nomination Form (32K Adobe .pdf Document)
Nomination & Selection Process
- Candidates deserving of this award should be nominated to the Board of Directors by a member of NARTE, a member of the NARTE Board or by a Company or Corporation associated with NARTE . The nomination will include a background of the individual nominated, rationale supporting the nomination and a brief biography.
Download the National Service Award Nomination Form (32K Adobe .pdf Document)
Nominations are to be submitted c/o iNARTE Headquarters, 840 Queen Street, New Bern, 28560; by fax to 252-672-0111; or by e-mail to inarte@inarte.us.
- Nominees must be presented to the NARTE Awards Chairman prior to the second semi-annual Board of Directors meeting, (normally October).
- The awards Committee will review all nominations, select the three (3) most deserving candidates, prepare a ballot with the supporting rationale for each nomination and by mail, present to the entire Board of Directors. These ballots will be returned to the Awards Committee no later than February 1st of the next year. The awards committee will inform NARTE Headquarters by letter of the ballot results.
- The selected recipient for the National Service Award will be notified by NARTE Headquarters and arrangements made for appropriate presentation of the award. All particulars for the presentation will be the responsibility of the Headquarters to include coordination with appropriate Senatorial leadership should this be the recipients preferred method of presentation.
- As part of the award, the recipient designates a college or university of choice to received a $1,000 scholarship.
- iNARTE Headquarters will prepare and dispatch appropriate news releases to the media and various trade magazines covering the presentation details.
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Heptode Award
The "Heptode Award" is granted by Headquarters staff to properly recognize those who lighten their burden, or who represent NARTE in an outstanding manner.
In the days of vacuum tubes there were a series of multi-function tubes described by the number of elements contained therein, such as triode (three elements), tetrode (four elements), pentode (five elements) and so on. Within this array was a multifunction tube called a heptode. A heptode is a seven-electrode vacuum tube containing an anode, a cathode, a control electrode, and four additional electrodes ordinarily in the nature of grids. These added elements were "helper" elements that made the circuit more efficient. Vacuum tubes have passed from the mainstream and are now only remembered by a relative few senior practitioners.
Nomination & Selection Process
- Heptode Award recipients may be designated by any NARTE staff member.
- Heptode Awards are confirmed by the Executive Director.
- Award winners are announced quarterly in March, May, September and December, when the winners are published in the NARTE News.
- Each Heptode Award is sent by mail directly to the award winner, and consists of the Heptode Award certificate, a Heptode Award lapel pin, and publication in NARTE News.
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