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Lighting Technology Award 2010

The Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan (IEIJ) presents the Lighting Technology Award program this year to offer the honor professionals of illumination all over the world who create unique engineering development work related to illumination. This program aims to encourage creative.

1. Work to be honored

The Lighting Technology Award is to be awarded to the work having excellent Engineering Development as follows:

  1. Invention, product development
  2. Engineering development
  3. Design technique
  4. Manufacturing technology
  5. Measuring/control technology
  6. Other achievements with a great contribution related to technology/technique

Any work, project within Japan or outside, may be implemented.

2. Conditions for application

  • The project must be practically implemented and disclosed to the public in the period from January 1st 2008 to December 31st 2009. “To be put in practical use” means that the outcome of the project is implemented or manufactured as commercial product.
  • An applicant must obtain permission of nomination from the persons associated in the project design before application.
  • In principle, an applicant is desired to be an individual. A joint work by a group however, may be acceptable.
  • Anyone, IEIJ member or nonmember, may nominate a project for the award.
  • The nominated project will be, in principle, announced at the annual conference of the IEIJ, published in the journal of the IEIJ and posted on the home page of the web site of the IEIJ.
  • All materials, including photographs, will becomes the property of the IEIJ, and will not be returned to the applicant. The IEIJ will have privileges to reproduce all materials related to the nomination without permission of the applicant for the journal, the English journal and the home page of IEIJ.
    (Please specify the name of designer etc., if you wish a credit.)

3. Commendation

  • The number of winners will be one, or two. If the examination result indicates that there is no winner, commendation will not be performed.
  • A certificate of merit and an extra prize will be awarded to a winner.

4. Application procedure

  • Please submit an application(the original and the additional explanation by CD.
    And attach one copy of print-out.
  • An application form shall be A3 size paper (landscape orientation). Application documents shall be one sheet of application form and a maximum three sheets of additional explanation (drawings, photos, etc.) (4 sheets in total at the maximum and all will be in A3 size).
  • The contents of an application form shall be described according to the instructions given by the IEIJ on the application form.
  • Please submit the original and one copy of application documents (application form and additional explanation).
  • Please ask the IEIJ for an application form E-mail or by FAX.

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5. Examination

  • The IEIJ will establish the examination committee, which will examine application according to the examination rules.
  • The IEIJ will ask an applicant to submit additional information, if necessary.

6. Application deadline

Friday, January 29, 2010 (you may send application documents by registered mail.)

7. Please send the document and contact to the following address:

" Lighting Technology Award ” of the Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan
(SHOMEI GAKKAI), Suitaya Building 3 F
2-8-4, Kandatsukasamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
101-0048, Japan
FAX (+81)-3-5294-0102
E-mail: ieijsomu@sepia.ocn.ne.jp

8. Notice to the winners

The end of April, 2010

9. Commendation ceremony

It will be held at the annual conference of the IEIJ (September 2010, Osaka City University)

10. Others remarks

If you want to use a personal computer to fill in an application form, please use WORD 2003 or 2007 software. Please download an application form that is posted on the home page of web site of the IEIJ (http://www.ieij.or.jp).

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