GEM Award – Going the Extra Mile Award
The Award recognizes and rewards outstanding service by administrative, support, and technical staff employees in the College of Engineering.
Eligibility
- All staff who do not hold faculty status and who work at least two-thirds time are eligible.
- Nominees must have completed at least two consecutive years of staff service in the College of Engineering.
- Past recipients are not eligible for a period of five years after receiving the award.
Qualifications
All candidates must have:
- Performed above and beyond normal expectations
- Gone above and beyond their regular assignment in specific and recognizable ways
- Volunteered to take on responsibilities not specifically required by their supervisor and take those on with a positive and willing spirit
- Demonstrated leadership or an ability to motivate others in pursuit of excellence
- Considered situations and problems from novel and diverse perspectives; addressed challenges in an innovative manner
- Questioned existing assumptions and beliefs; encouraged people to think of alternative ways of doing things
- Considered constraints that limited innovation; worked within constraints to create novel approaches; found ways to make the most out of existing resources; swiftly moved from ideas to implementation
Candidates should have performed in a manner that substantially exceeds the normal expectation for a staff member.
Selection
The Staff Initiative Committee will select award recipients.
Nomination Process
Nominations may be initiated by College of Engineering staff, students, faculty, and/or administrators. Each nominator, however, may nominate only one employee for this award each year.
The nomination packet should consist of ONE pdf file emailed to fac-staff-awards@coe.neu.edu (separate emails will not be accepted) containing the following:
- one letter of nomination including the names of the nominator(s) and the nominee which should include the rationale for the nomination and pertinent accomplishments; the letter will be preferably one page and a maximum of two pages in length;
- a letter of support from the COE department chair or director, if not included among the nominators above;
- a maximum of three letters of support from current or former students and/or College/University colleagues.
If you have any questions, please email fac-staff-awards@coe.neu.edu.
Past Recipients
2023 | Tiffany Lam | CenSSIS |
2023 | Gina O’Brien-McLelland | Dean’s Office |
2022 | Elizabeth Creamer | Academic Advising |
2022 | David Louis | Computer Center |
2022 | Krista Robinette | ChE |
2021 | Edward Kelly | ECE |
2021 | Lisa Lehane | ARC |
2021 | Sarah Batista-Pereira | Development |
2020 | Thomas Simers | MIE Co-op |
2020 | Eddie Tyrance | ECE |
2019 | Jacqueline Josselyn | ECE Co-op |
2019 | Juan Carlos Hincapie | ARC |
2018 | Eve Young | Academic Advising |
2017 | Margaret Grimes | MIE Co-op |
2016 | Melanie Smith | Gordon-CenSSIS |
2015 | Robert Eagan | ChE |
2014 | Andrew Lawrence | ARC |