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MAYFIELD COTTON ENGINEERING AWARD

Instructions for Preparing a Nomination

Please use the nomination form for submitting a nomination. The nominator of the candidate for the Mayfield Cotton Engineering Award shall submit a completed nomination form to headquarters by October 31.

All award nomination forms and letters of support are to be submitted to ASABE headquarters in the following electronic format only. Hard copy sent via regular mail will no longer be accepted.

The nomination form and required letters of support are to be sent as PDF files emailed to the attention of ASABE Awards Administrator, Carol Flautt - flautt@asabe.org Nomination forms and letters of support submitted in this format will allow headquarters to send the documents electronically to the award selection committee. It is the responsibility of the nominator and authors of the support letters to verify that the PDF file appears as intended.

The required letters of support can be included with the nomination form or sent separately as a PDF file emailed to the attention of ASABE Awards Administrator, Carol Flautt - flautt@asabe.org by October 31.

 

Nomination Form in MS Word format: mayfield.doc Word document to be completed, converted to a PDF file and emailed to the attention of ASABE Awards Administrator, Carol Flautt – flautt@asabe.org

Free PDF converters are available such as - CutePDF Writer

Nomination Form: mayfield.pdf.  It is recommended that you first fill out the PDF form, review, and then email to the attention of ASABE Awards Administrator, Carol Flautt – flautt@asabe.org


Purpose of the Award

To encourage and to recognize outstanding engineering contributions to the cotton industry.

The Award

The name of the award shall be the Mayfield Cotton Engineering Award. The award is sponsored by the John Deere Foundation, Deere & Company, John Deere Road,
Moline, IL 61265.

The award shall consist of an inscribed plaque. It shall be presented at the Annual International Meeting of the Society and acknowledged at the following Beltwide Cotton Conference.

The M-158 Mayfield Cotton Engineering Award Committee will be responsible for the selection of the award recipient with final approval by the M-102 Awards Coordinating Committee.

Note: Those nominating a candidate will be advised only if their candidate is selected. Each nominee will be considered by the award committee for two additional years if not selected the year nominated.

Eligibility for the Award

Recipient must be a corporate member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Recipient must have a good long-term job performance record with at least five years' experience in cotton. Recipient shall have made a significant engineering-related contribution in the cotton industry.

Administration of the Award

The award shall be handled by and be processed through regular ASABE channels in the conventional manner. The M-158 Mayfield Cotton Engineering Award committee will be responsible for selecting the recipient with final approval by the M-102 Awards Coordinating Committee. The committee shall be composed as follows:

- The chair of the ASABE Cotton Harvesting and Mechanization Committee (PM-50) shall chair the selection committee or appoint a chair from PM-50.

- One member of ASABE Special Crops Processing Committee (FPE-704)
     with a cotton interest.

- Chair, Agricultural Engineering Regional Research Committee.

- One extension agricultural engineer with cotton interest.

- A cotton farm/gin machinery supply representative.

Mayfield Cotton Engineering Award

This award is sponsored by Deere & Company. It is named after William Donald Mayfield, an extension agricultural engineer who devoted his career to the application of engineering fundamentals.

In sponsoring this award, Deere & Company seeks to encourage and to recognize outstanding engineering contributions to the cotton industry.

To be eligible for this award, a nominee must be a corporate member of ASABE, must have a good long-term job performance record with at least
five years of experience in cotton, and must have made a specific recent engineering-related contribution to the cotton industry. The award consists
of an inscribed plaque.

Past Recipients of the Award

          American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
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