Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology

The UC Information Technology Leadership Council ( ITLC) sponsors the Larry L. Sautter Award to encourage and recognize innovators in the deployment of information technology to conduct the University's business.

The Award honors the memory of UC Riverside's Associate Vice Chancellor for Computing and Communications, Larry Sautter, who led the Riverside campus in technological innovation through entrepreneurial, effective, and efficient use of the resources at his disposal.

The Sautter Award Program annually presents up to two Golden and two Silver Awards.

Award Program and Eligibility

The Sautter Award Program honors projects developed by faculty and staff in any department at any of the ten UC campuses, the UC Office of the President, and the three UC-managed national laboratories.

Program Goals

The Sautter Award Program seeks to highlight best practices in information technology in the University by identifying exemplary innovations that:

• make good use of resources and can be adopted by other University departments or campuses;
• promote innovation that has the potential to improve the way the University conducts its business, even when the impact of the innovation will not be felt immediately;
• define criteria for assessing innovative projects and set high standards for information technology deployment;
• recognize innovative deployments of information technology without regard to the resources available to the initiating department or campus; and
• offer rewards for risk taking.

Project Criteria

• Involve the deployment of information technology rather than research on new technologies
• Use information technology to improve business or administrative processes or to deliver academic or programmatic material
• Advance the University's mission of teaching, research, and public service
• Be operational at a UC campus, having been implemented within the past three years
• Be portable and able to be implemented by other UC departments or campuses

• Faster, friendlier, cheaper, simpler
• Portable, scale-able, readily implement-able
• Assessable (representing a measurable return on investment)
• Collaborative
• Unique, new, different

Larry L. Sautter Award Winners

Previous winning applications may be found at

http://www.ucop.edu/irc/itlc/sautter/sautterprior.html

Application Procedure

• Name, title, and contact information of submitter
• Names of project leader(s) and team members
• A summary paragraph that highlights the significance of the project (100 words)
• A project description (not to exceed 5 pages), including the project URLs
• The technology utilized in the project
• The time frame of implementation
• Objective customer satisfaction data (not to exceed 2 pages)
• Bench marking data, if available (not required)