ASABE Student Honors Awards

Index
| Recipients | Background | General Rules | Eligibility Rules |
| Schedule of Award Points | Scholarship |
| Local ASABE Student Engineering or Mechanization Branch Activities |
| National ASABE Student Activities |Campus Activities |
| Miscellaneous Activities | Official Scoresheet |

Each student engineering branch and student mechanization branch may elect one student branch member to receive the Student Honor Award for each 25 active members. Winners receive a leather portfolio and a certificate of award provided by ASABE.

This award encourages scholarship, activity in student branch affairs, extracurricular and national student activities and the important art of maintaining the good will and respect of associates. Winners names must be received at ASABE headquarters by April 23.

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ASABE Student Honor Award

At the annual meeting of the ASABE at East Lansing, Michigan, in June 1949, delegates representing student branches of ASABE expressed the desire that the Society establish an honor award in recognition of conspicuous student activity. A committee representing 12 student branches drafted and submitted to the Society a plan for such an award. In September of the same year, the proposed plan was referred to all the Society's student branches and to their respective college agricultural engineering faculties for consideration and recommendation. The Board of Directors of the Society later referred the proposal with recommended revisions received to the Committee on Student Branches for further study and with instructions to formulate a student honor award program. This program, as proposed by the Committee, was submitted to the Board of Directors in December 1950, and approved and ordered put into effect when it was deemed feasible to do so. The initial awards were instituted in 1952.

The ASABE Board of Directors changed the Student Honor Award at the Summer Meeting June 1977 to include eligibility of ASABE student mechanization branch members.

This award is to be known as the "ASABE Student Honor Award" (hereinafter referred to as the Award), and it is to be conferred on individual students in accord with the following General Rules, Eligibility Rules, and Schedule of Award Points.

Student Honors Awards General Rules

GR-1 A member of a student engineering or mechanization branch of ASABE, who desires to compete for the ASABE Student Honor Award, shall copy the score sheet and complete it. He shall credit himself with award points, according to the Schedule of Award Points herein, for all elective and appointive offices held in the local student engineering or mechanization branch and other student organizations in which he may be serving at the time of filling out the score sheet. If an office is filled more than once, credit shall be allowed for each term of office.

GR-2 The branch shall elect a custodian of the score sheets and the score sheet of each student competing for the Award shall be delivered to the custodian before the last regular meeting of the student branch in April or for the semester and verified by an officer of the branch and the faculty advisor.

GR-3 The ratings on the score sheets of students eligible under paragraph ER-6 shall be totaled prior to the last regular branch meeting in April or the last regular branch meeting of the semester.

GR-4 The eligibility of candidates for the Award, as determined under the Eligibility Rules (paragraphs ER- 1 to 8), shall be certified by a committee comprised of the branch officers and the faculty advisor. The names of eligible students shall be announced and recipients of the Award shall be elected by secret letter ballot not later than the last regular branch meeting in April or the last branch meeting of the semester.

GR-5 In any school year, a student engineering or mechanization branch may elect not more than (a) one recipient of the Award for each 25 or fewer members who constitute the branch members, or regular ASABE student members but not graduate student members of the student branch; (b) two recipients for each 26 to 50 members; (c) three recipients for each 51 to 75 members; (d) four recipients for each 76 to 100 members, etc.

GR-6 The tokens of the Award shall consist of a certificate and leather portfolio engraved with the ASABE logo. ASABE headquarters provides certificates and portfolios based on receipt of certified score sheets, and on its records of student branch strength. Score sheets are to be sent electronically as a PDF file attached to an email message and sent to the attention of Carol Flautt, ASABE Awards Administrator at flautt@asabe.org no later than April 23 in order for the awardee to be listed in the Annual Meeting Awards program booklet. Score sheet can be found by accessing this link SCORE SHEET.

GR-7 Portfolios and certificates may be awarded with appropriate ceremony at a meeting or special function of the branch.

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ELIGIBILITY RULES

A student to be eligible for the ASABE Student Honor Award must

ER-1 Be enrolled in a four- or five-year professional agricultural, food, or biological engineering curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree; or be enrolled in a four- or five-year ASABE approved agricultural mechanization curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in agricultural mechanization or its equivalent.

ER-2 Have attended the school where currently enrolled for a minimum of one academic year.

ER-3 Have earned at least a 2.5 (if an A is counted as 4.0 honor points), C+ or 75 percent average, as explained under Schedule of Award Points, for all work completed since the beginning of his freshman year.

ER-4 Be enrolled for a period of at least one academic year as a student member of ASABE and as a member of the local ASABE student engineering or mechanization branch.

ER-5 Have attended a minimum of two-thirds (2/3) of all scheduled meetings of his student branch since becoming a member of the branch, as shown by the secretary's attendance records.

ER-6 Have completed sufficient course work to enable him to graduate within four additional quarters if the school operates on a quarter system, or three semesters if on a semester system.

ER-7 Have not previously received the ASABE Student Honor Award.

ER-8 Have accumulated a minimum of 50 points, according to the Schedule of
Award Points below.

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SCHEDULE OF AWARD POINTS

AP-1 Scholarship
A student, to be an eligible candidate for the ASABE Student Honor Award, shall have a minimum average in all work completed of C+, a 2.5 quality point or honor point ratio (where an A is counted as 4.0 points), or 75 percent, depending on the method of determining grade averages at the school he is attending. All course work completed from the beginning of the freshman year shall be considered.

If a student's average is above the minimum, he shall be given award points in accord with the following table:

A student shall be credited with award points under AP-2, 3, and 4 below, whenever he satisfies a particular requirement. For example, if a student earns two varsity letters for athletics, he will be credited with 10 award points, AP-4(f).

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AP-2 Local ASABE Student Engineering or
Mechanization Branch Activities

a. Offices in local Student Branch

c. Field day: General chair, 6; vice general chair, 3; exhibit chief, 3 (examples - float, display, model display). Bonus for all committee members for exhibits placing in all-college or university-wide competition: 1st place, 6; 2nd place, 4; 3rd place, 2.

d. Special branch activities: For giving a prepared talk of at least 10 minutes on program (not to include committee reports), 2; for a year's perfect attendance at regular branch meetings, 10; for each full year of active branch membership, 4.

e. AEM Trophies Competition: Committee chair, 10; vice chair, 5. Bonus for all committee members for reports placing in national competition: 1st to 10th place, 10 to 1 (descending scale).

f. Branch publications (points are per year or in proportion thereto): Editor or business manager, 12; assistant editor or assistant business manager, 8; author of technical article, 6.

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AP-3 National ASABE Student Activities

a. Officers of National Council of Student Engineering Branches or National Council of Student Mechanization Branches: President, 15; vice president, 10; secretary, 10.

b. Publication of National Student Journal: Editor or business manager, 15; assistant editor or assistant business manager, 10; author of technical article, 6; report of branch activities, 3.

c. Branch delegate to national student meeting, 10.

d. Attendance at a society-wide ASABE annual meeting, 5.

e. Office held in an ASABE section, 5.

f. Giving prepared paper or talk at ASABE section meeting, 6.

g. Attendance at an ASABE section meeting, 2.

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AP-4 Campus Activities

a. Election to a national scholastic honor society, 5.

b. College publications: Editor or business manager, 12; associate or assistant editor or associate or assistant business manager, 8; other staff member, 3; author of technical articles, 6; author of non-technical articles (other than news reports), 4; news reports, 1.

c. Contests - college-wide or national: For entry in any contest as an individual (horse show, livestock judging, etc.), 3. Bonus, winning, 3.

d. For entering a paper in any essay or similar competition (such as ASABE Student Paper Award, etc.), 4. Bonus for winning 1st to 10th place, 10 to 1 (on a descending scale).

e. Student government: President of student body, 10; college class president, 8; other college wide office (unless office is held by virtue of some other office for which credit is taken elsewhere), 4.

f. Athletics: Varsity letterman, 5; individual conference champion or member of championship first team, 5; member of intramural team, 1; member of league championship intramural team, 2; member college championship intramural team, 2.

g. Fraternal, campus civic, or veterans' organizations: President, 5; other elective office, 2.

h. Religious organizations: President of a student religious organization in college or nearby church, 5; other elective office, 2.

i. Cultural activities: Major role in dramatic production or lead in glee club, 5; supporting role in dramatic production, 3; member of stage crew for dramatic production, 3; member debate team, 5. Bonus for each debate won, 1.

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AP-5 Miscellaneous Activities

The faculty of any department of agricultural and/or biological engineering may set up an award scale with values comparable to the above schedule for any event of local importance, providing the total award points in such a scale does not exceed 25.

Revised September 2006
Approved February 1952 - Revised September 1967
Revised September 1970
Revised September 1974
Revised June 19

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