A. I. E. E. national and regional prizes

A system of National and Regional Prizes for Institute papers was inaugurated by the Board of Directors in 1926 and has been administered by a special Committee on Award of Institute Prizes. After two years´ experience, this committee found the system of award to be extremely difficult, owing to the fact that comparison between papers dealing with entirely different branches of the art cannot logically be made. It was also found necessary to establish some basis for rating and judging the papers in order to make the awards in a satisfactory manner. After a careful study of the whole situation, this committee submitted a new plan to serve as a basis of awards for Institute papers, and the Board of Directors, at a meeting held in Detroit on June 23rd, adopted the committee´s report as given below. The following plan is therefore now in effect as applying to prizes for papers presented in 1927.