Professionals of the Year (POY)


27th Annual Professional of the Year (POY) Banquet
Presented by the Huntsville Association of Technical Societies (HATS)

The Professional of the Year (POY) banquet provides HATS member organizations the opportunity to publicly recognize one of their own for exceptional professionalism. Each member organization selects its own POY and a HATS committee selects one of the POYs as the recipient of the Joseph P. Moquin Award. The criteria for the awards are as follows.

Criteria for a POY Award:

He or she has

  1. Retained membership in the professional organization that is a member in good standing of HATS.

  2. Demonstrated excellence in some professional (technical or managerial) work or activity that is concerned with broad and beneficial technical, scientific, social or economic consequences. This excellence shall be exemplified in his or her workplace, in the professional organization in which they are participant members of, and/or in volunteer efforts.

  3. Exhibited an extraordinary dedication, creativity or leadership in that work or activity that results in excellent contributions to the technical and economic development of the City of Huntsville and the surrounding areas.

Criteria for the Moquin Award:

The Moquin Awardee will be chosen from among the current year's POY group who has stood above their peers by providing exemplary leadership to the North Alabama technical community. This involvement and leadership shall have been long-standing with commitment and consistency.

POC: Brian Nothnagle - 256.683.8842 Contact: poy at hats.org


Professionals of the Year Recognitions

Honorees for previous years:
2007 Professionals of the Year
2006 Professionals of the Year
2005 Professionals of the Year

2000 Professionals of the Year
1999 Professionals of the Year
1998 Professionals of the Year
1997 Professionals of the Year
1996 Professionals of the Year.


History

Each year, member societies of HATS can select an individual from within their ranks for recognition as their Professional of the Year (POY). The criteria for this selection are: POYs are honored at the HATS POY Awards Dinner. Individual members of HATS Member Societies are encouraged to help honor their society choices by attending the HATS Awards Dinner and sitting at their society's table(s).

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