(Links to winners in prior years are listed below the 2008 Winners Index.)
2009
AE50 Awards
Entry
Information
To Access the entry form click on the underlined versions above.
Official
Entry Instructions
Deadline:
Entries Postmarked by December 31, 2008
Sponsored by Resource magazine, published by American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
The Search for Excellence is on!
The 23rd
annual AE50 recognition program will honor companies offering
the best products engineered for agricultural, food, biological
and related systems available on the market for the first time
in 2008. A panel of experts in these fields will choose up to
50 winners.
AE50 Outstanding Innovations in Product or Systems Technology will be Selected Based on These Guidelines
Each development must have been introduced and made commercially available no earlier than January 1, 2008
and no later than December 31, 2008. If no fully functioning units have yet been sold, they must be advertised and available for sale. Products still in the development stage do not qualify.
Each engineering development (component, machine, structure, system, end product, procedure) must embody the application of new technology or the innovative application of an older technology. The development must be new to the industry not just new to your company.
Each development must be intended principally for use in the production, processing, research, storage, packaging or transportation of agricultural and food products.
Each development must have the potential for broad impact on an application area or on the industries served by the engineering of food and agriculture.
Each development must be deemed by the AE50 Selection Committee to be a worthwhile contribution to the advancing engineering in food and agriculture.
Entries may be either an entire machine or system, OR the most innovative component of it - NOT BOTH. Only one component per machine may be submitted. Any attachment that is designed specifically for use with a machine and introduced with it is considered part of the basic machine system.
Entries
not meeting these guidelines will be disqualified.
There
is no entry fee. Winning AE50 companies will receive:
one personalized,
engraved plaque
an introduction
of the product including a photo in the special 2009 AE50 issue
of Resource magazine and ASABE Website
5 copies
of this special issue of Resource
Submitting your entry
Electronic file of your entry form
Include color photograph both in electronic and print format
If using a digital camera, (jpg) set file size to high
tiff files should be at 300 dpi
Include nine copies of each of the following:
Completed entry form
Available product literature or diagrams
Mail all materials postmarked by December 31, 2008 to:
Sandy Rutter, ASABE AE50 Coordinator
2950 Niles Road, St. Joseph MI 49085 USA
269-429-0300 ext. 345,
rutter@asabe.org
or visit www.asabe.org
for more information.
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