OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD

Objectives

The Foundation of Ateneo Management Engineers, Inc. (FAME) pays homage to its distinguished alumni, by bestowing the Outstanding Alumni Award (OAA Award, or simply the Award, for short), to recognize their substantive contribution to advancing their respective profession or enterprise, and/or ameliorating the common good. The recognition will be awarded from time to time, as determined by the duly constituted Selection Committee, based on recommendations by members, subject to validation and evaluation of the designated Screening Committee.

Criteria for Selection

The basic criterion for the Outstanding Alumni Award is:  Excellence and capability in the exercise of profession, conduct of business or extent, benefit and impact of social endeavor or enterprise.

The indicators to be evaluated include among others, the following:

1. Attribution of concept, design, strategy or program, resulting in turnaround and/or sustained growth of a project or enterprise;
2. Superior execution, consistently exceeding established benchmarks and norms, and raising the bar by which performance is measured in their particular context and field of endeavor;
3. Impeccable leadership steering an organization over an extended period of time, adapting to the vagaries of an ever changing operating environment, while advancing its goals and objectives and materially improving its members lot.
4. Being a change agent in a manner that transforms mindsets and processes, fundamentally, permanently and for the better;
5. Being a “Man for Others”, eschewing material rewards and public accolade, ameliorating the lives of countless many, especially among the marginalized segments of society, notably the poor and the downtrodden, discriminated minorities and indigenous peoples and social outcasts, in the pursuit of social justice and equal opportunities for all Filipinos.

Nomination Process

For 2009 the nomination to the OAA Award will be received by the Screening Committee no later than 5:00 pm, May 15, 2009, in time for the ME@40 homecoming reunion scheduled for August 1, 2009.  Thereafter, the deadline for nominations will be on the 31st of January.

All bona fide graduate of the Program may be nominated for the Award.

Required Data

1. Three (3) references from among the ranks of the alumni of the Program, including ME, JGSOM or ADMU faculty, active or retired
2. A short explanation of reasons for your choice
3. Name and signature of nominator

1. Nomination Form Letter (download here)
2. Nomination Authorization Letter (download here)

Nominations should be addressed to:

Foundation of Ateneo Management Engineers, Inc. (FAME)      
c/o Director, Management Engineering Program
John Gokongwei School of Management
Ateneo University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City

Tel/Fax:  +632-4266076
E-mail:   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (case-sensitive email)

SELECTION GUIDELINES

I.    Organization

    The Screening Committee shall be composed of –

• The Director of the Management Engineering Program
• The most recent OAA awardee
• A senior ME faculty member, past or present
• An ME alumnus, to be rotated from among the different batches, as nominated by their respective peer group
• The President of the Ateneo Management Engineering Association (MEA)

    The Selection Committee shall be composed of –

• The Dean of the John Gokongwei School of Management
• The Director of the Management Engineering Program
• An OAA awardee, who is not a member of the Screening Committee
• An ME alumnus, chosen by consensus of the different batches, to serve a two-year term as member of the Selection Committee
• The incumbent Chairman of FAME, who shall chair the Selection Committee
• A special resource party, in the person of Prof. Mari-Jo Ruiz, or her future replacement, who shall have contingent voting rights, in the event of a tie or a temporary vacancy in the Selection Committee

II.    Screening Guidelines

• A nominee must be a bona fide graduate of the Program, who obtained his degree at least ten (10) years prior to the award year.
• A nominee should have qualified under at least one of the criteria set enumerated in the foregoing Criteria for Selection.
• The achievements or contributions of a nominee should have taken place after graduation from the Program.  Anything prior will not be considered.
• The Screening Committee shall, to the extent possible and practicable, put together the necessary dossier and other documentary supports, validating the achievements of the prospective nominee.  Such documentary support can be in the form of a sworn affidavit from an incontrovertible or credible source, to be determined at the discretion of the Screening Committee.
• The Screening Committee shall come up with at least three (3) qualified candidates, to constitute the short list for recommendation to the Selection Committee; the Screening Committee can nonetheless proceed with the nomination, if only two qualified candidates comprise the short list, subject to the unanimous approval of committee members, meeting en banc and constituting a quorum.
• In the event that there is a need to amend any ruling, based on additional information subsequently obtained or for whatever reasons, a 2/3 vote of the Screening Committee will be needed.

III.    Selection Guidelines

• Short-listed candidates must provide the requisite documentary support, validating their eligibility under at least one of the aforecited Criteria for Selection.
• The Selection Committee, by a simple majority vote, can elect any of the short-listed OAA nominees.  
• A short-listed candidate, unable to make it in any particular year, can be reconsidered for selection in subsequent years, if recommended by the Screening Committee for the corresponding year.
• In the event that there is a need to amend any ruling, based on additional information subsequently obtained or for whatever reasons, a 2/3 vote of the Selection Committee will be needed.