THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES
Technical Engineering Achievement Awards

The Award
“Outstanding Achievement in Technical/Engineering Development”
Presentation of Emmy® Statuettes
(Possible: One Award, No Award)



SCOPE

An award to an individual, a company, or to a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies which either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected the transmission, recording, or reception of television.


VOTING PROCEDURES

A Panel of highly qualified engineers working in television considers technical development, and determines which, if any, merit an award.


COMMITTEE PROCEDURES

a.)        All award balloting is by secret ballot.

b.)        An affirmative vote by two-thirds of the voting members present is required for an award.

c.)         An affirmative vote by two-thirds of the voting members present is required to deny issuance of an award in a particular category of technology once an individual or organization has been nominated by committee procedures for an award in that category.

d.)         If the Committee approves one or more awards, they will be for Academy Emmy® Statuettes. There will be no “Citation” award given.

e.)         To be eligible to vote on the final award ballots the representative of a company or organization must have been present at all previous meetings (except for the first, organizational meeting). A designated qualified alternate may be assigned if prior notice is given.

f.)         Companies having common ownership (a parent-subsidiary relationship for example) shall be considered for voting purposes as a single organization. Each company may have a representative at committee meetings, but one representative will be designated to cast the single vote of the larger organization.

g.)         Any member(s) whose company is under consideration for an award will be excluded from balloting for an award recognition for that particular technology. This exclusion would be only for the ballot(s) pertaining to that technology.

h.)         All technology nominations must be limited to technologies. Any individual, or organization or product could not be discussed until the third meeting as part of a discussion to an already approved technology.

i.)         The Committee may establish other procedures as necessary to conduct its meetings and other business. Points not covered by Committee procedures will be governed by Robert’s Rules of Order, Revised Edition.