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Award Spotlight
IEEE-HKN Wins Top Award in Publishing
Excellence Competition
The honor society receives its first-ever
APEX Grand Award and the Honor society's
magazine brings home its 8th consecutive
Award of Excellence.
IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN), the honor society of
IEEE, is thrilled to announce it has won two awards in
the 33rd Annual APEX Awards for Publication Excellence.
IEEE-HKN garnered its first-ever Grand Award in the
competition for the " IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN)
Identity Guidelines " and its eighth consecutive Award
of Excellence for its magazine, THE BRIDGE.
The APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic
design, editorial content, and the ability to achieve
overall communications excellence. The annual
competition is open to corporate and nonprofit
publishers, editors, writers, and designers who
create print, web, electronic, and social media.
A total of 1,172 entries were received.
The organization noted: " Overall, this year's entries
displayed an exceptional level of quality. The APEX
judges saw only the most promising publications that
professional communicators could enter. From them,
they had the truly difficult task of selecting the awardwinning
entries. "
The " IEEE-HKN Identity Guidelines " are increasing
recognition of the organization's brand and has given
the society's 268 university-based Chapters a ready-touse
resource for developing promotional pieces, social
media templates, letterhead, business cards, and the
like. Some 14 templates were developed in addition to
a step-by-step guide on how and where to use them.
The rules around the use of the society's logo, colors
and other brand elements also were explained.
The templates are widely used as evidenced by the
social media posts Chapters have created and in the
reports they submit to headquarters, said Nancy Ostin,
IEEE-HKN Director.
The project was conceived and completed by Katelyn
Brinker, Co-Chair of the IEEE-HKN Public Relations and
Communications Committee; Stacey Bersani, IEEE-HKN
Program Manager, and Caitlin Leshiner, owner and
creative director of Tumbleweeds Creative Studio in
partnership with the IEEE Experience Design team.
" This comprehensive resource has been embraced by
our Chapters, and the organization as a whole and has
helped all of these many parts come together under a
single banner and have a shared reference point, " said
Ronald Jensen, 2021 IEEE-HKN President. " I thank and
applaud Katelyn, Stacey and Caitlin for their dedication
to producing a terrific product. "
IEEE-HKN's electronic magazine, THE BRIDGE,
received its eighth consecutive Award of Excellence
in the competition. The latest winning entry was for
the writing of a series of articles that appeared in the
October 2020 issue, entitled " THE BRIDGE: The
Future of Renewable Energy. "
The issue was guest edited by Dr. Roderick Jackson,
Laboratory Program Manager for Buildings Research
at The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Ostin served as Managing Editor and Bersani served as
Assistant Managing Editor.
The series discussed the future of energy generation,
transmission and consumption and the paradigm
shift needed to achieve clean, reliable, resilient, and
affordable energy. Jackson enlisted leading researchers
at NREL to write the articles.
" This article series is a valued outreach from innovators
in engineering to the next generation of engineers.
Our student readers are exposed to key perspectives
on timely technologies and to exciting career
opportunities, " said Dr. Steve E. Watkins and Dr. Sahra
Sedigh Sarvestani, Co-Editors-in-Chief for THE BRIDGE,
who lead the volunteer editorial board. " Excellence in
professional communications through the magazine
reflects the high ideals and impact of HKN. "
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