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MAYFIELD COTTON ENGINEERING AWARDInstructions 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, 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)
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 | ||||||||||