SCS Awards and Member Elevation
SCS offers numerous awards for exemplary achievement. These highlight different areas of achievement in M&S and honor those who have made a widespread contribution to the simulation community or society.
Contribution to the Profession Awards
Outstanding Professional Contribution Award
Criteria: The candidate should have contributed an innovative concept or product or formulated creative insight. It should have been embraced by some significant segment of the M&S community as evidenced by its widespread application in that community.
Frequency: As appropriate
Distinguished Professional Achievement Award
Criteria: The candidate should have made a group of technical contributions to M&S activities that have been widely disseminated in technical literature. As a consequence of these contributions, the candidate should have achieved a stature that is generally recognized as high caliber.
Frequency: Typically, one such award is given each year
McLeod Founder’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession
Criteria: This award recognizes a group of technical contributions, which have been made by the candidate over a significant period, e.g., a decade or more. They should clearly reflect a candidate’s commitment to nurturing a robust evolution of the profession.
Additionally, the significant nature of the candidate’s contributions should be supported by their wide dissemination in technical literature. It should also reflect their discernible impact on the manner in which some aspect of the M&S activity is carried out.
Frequency: Typically, one such award is given every three years
Presidential Award for Enabling the Modeling and Simulation Discipline
Criteria: This award recognizes a substantial contribution to establishing M&S as a discipline in academia, industry, and/or the government. Recipients of this award are usually policy makers or high-level managers who, through their policies, have spearheaded efforts in advancing M&S and, through their actions, have supported researchers in this discipline.
Frequency: Typically, one such award is given every three years
Young Simulation Scientist
Criteria: This award honors outstanding scientists and engineers under 35 years old who, early in their careers, demonstrated excellence and showed potential for leadership at the frontiers of M&S.
Frequency: Typically, one such award is given each year
Service to the Society Awards
Outstanding Service Award
Criteria: This award recognizes a member’s outstanding service to the society. Typical contributions by a candidate include leadership of a major conference, which achieved substantial success for SCS; a major editorial contribution to one of the society’s regular publications; or establishment of a new and successful business area or program for the society.
Frequency: As appropriate
Distinguished Service Award
Criteria: This award recognizes a member’s distinguished service to the society at a level of dedication and achievement that is rarely demonstrated. The member should have made a series of significant contributions to the SCS over a 5-to-10-year period.
Typically, the contributions should include some combination of the following: running a conference over several years and achieving growth in its prestige and success, significant editorial service to one of the regular publications of the society, or noteworthy contributions as an executive officer in a variety of positions.
Frequency: Typically, one such award is given each year
Presidential Award for Service to the Society
Criteria: This award recognizes a member’s unique long-term service to the society. The candidate should have made a series of outstanding contributions over a 10-to-15-year period and exhibited leadership ability that has clearly resulted in growth in the society’s vitality.
The candidate’s decisions while in positions of responsibility should have influenced the future of SCS. Additionally, the candidate should have an acknowledged stature for technical achievement to their demonstrated leadership ability.
Frequency: Typically, one such award is given every three years
Bill Waite Presidential Award
Criteria: This award recognizes an individual who has made substantial contributions to establishing M&S as a discipline in academia, industry, and/or the government. The person given the Bill Waite Presidential Award should embody and demonstrate some of Bill’s many contributions and accomplishments to the discipline, ethics, education, vocation, societies, and economics in M&S.
Frequency: As needed
Lifetime Achievement Awards
SCS Modeling and Simulation Hall of Fame
Criteria: The Modeling and Simulation Hall of Fame recognizes outstanding visionary leadership and dedication to increasing the effectiveness and broadening the application of simulation. The inductees’ thoughts, words, and energies have significantly impacted the use of simulation not only in the field but also throughout the world.
Frequency: Typically, one such award is given each year
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SCS Fellows
The grade of a fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession. It shall be conferred by the BOD upon a member with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any M&S field of interest. The accomplishments that are being honored shall have contributed to the advancement or application of M&S, bringing the realization of significant value to the simulation community.
Nominees should have considerable leadership within their field of interest and have served within the society.
SCS Grade of Fellow Eligibility
1. The nominee must be a senior member and have a minimum of five consecutive years as a professional member of SCS before the nomination is submitted to qualify.
2. The nominee should have a demonstrable record of achievement and accomplishment in a specific field of interest within simulation. The achievement can be in the following:
- Research
- Education
- Industry
- Public Service
- New Technology
- Clinical Practice
Contributions and achievements can take the form of a new and significant piece of theoretical and/or experimental work leading to important advancements. As an educator, the nominee’s contributions can encompass the development of a new curriculum or courses that are innovative or unique.
3. The nominee must submit a fellow application form.
4. The nominee should send nomination support forms to be completed by three SCS current members/professional references.
5. The nominee should submit a CV.
Application Requirements
A complete fellow application packet must include:
- A Fellow’s Application Form
- Nomination Support Forms (Maximum of Three)
- CV
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SCS Senior Member Elevation
Senior member is the highest grade for which SCS members can apply. They can self-nominate or be nominated for a senior member grade. Additionally, they should be an SCS member in good standing. To be eligible for application or nomination, the candidates must:
- Have ten years of professional experience in the field of M&S
- Be engineers, scientists, educators, or technical executives
- Have experience reflecting professional maturity
- Have professional experience for at least 10 years with significant performance over a period of at least 5 of those years that sets the member apart from their peers
Prospective members who would like to apply directly for senior member grade must first join SCS and then submit a senior member application form. For applications or nominations to be considered, they must be received completed, with all required references and a CV.
Benefits of Senior Membership
- Recognition
- Leadership Eligibility
- Ability to Refer Other Candidates
- Letter of Commendation: A Letter of Commendation on the Achievement of a Senior Member Grade to Be Sent to Your Employer (Upon Request)
Application Requirements
A complete senior application packet must include:
- A Senior Member Application Form Completed in Member 365
- A CV Submitted Through Member 365
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