External Award Nominations
The External Nominations Committee is responsible for the solicitation, processing and submission on behalf of the Society of nominations for appropriate IEEE awards and, as applicable, for awards outside of the IEEE. Below is a partial list of such awards. Contact the committee chair with questions.
| Location | Annual Deadline | |
| The Shaw Prize | Hong Kong | November 30 |
| The Xplorer Prize | China | April 15 |
| The Ho Leung Ho Lee (HLHL) Award Foundation | China | |
| Tan Kah Kee Science Award Foundation | China | January 1 to May 15 in odd years |
| The Future Science Prize | China | |
| Kobayashi Award | IEEE | January 15 |
| Sumner Award | IEEE | January 15 |
| Kirchmayer Award | IEEE | January 15 |
| Japan Prize | Japan | |
| Armstrong Award | ComSoc | |
| Bell Medal | IEEE | June 15 |
| Dresselhaus Medal | IEEE | June 15 |
| Hamming Medal | IEEE | June 15 |
| Founders Medal | IEEE | June 15 |
| Mulligan Medal | IEEE | June 15 |
| Dobrushin International Award | Russian | May 10 |
| Eduard Rhein | Germany | |
| BBVA | June 30 | |
| Athena Swan ACM | ACM | January 15 |
| Prix Glavieux | France | |
| Canadian Telecoms Prize | Canada | March 31 |
| Médaille Blondel | France | |
| RSS and UK | ||
| IMS Fellows | January 31 | |
| Mustafa Prize | N/A | |
| VinFuture Prize | Vietnam | June 7 |
| L'Oréal Prize | UNESCO | May |