Why is Engineering Inspiration viewed as second place to the Chairman's Award?

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I'm surprised, because I've always thought that the Gracious Professionalism award was 'Chairman's runner up'.

I'm with a team that's won eight RCA's, but never won an Engineering Inspiration. But the last two years, no RCA and two regional GP's. In 2012, an Einstein GP. Really honored, but not as much as Chairman's. But you can see how we associate GP with not winning RCA.

It's my impression that the criteria to win Engineering Inspiration is the creation of engineering classes and engineering curriculum in your school, to encourages future engineers.

Chairman's criteria is much harder to put into one sentence. But it does involve inspiring engineers and gracious professionalism too.

Probably a venn diagram would intersect these two at 'chairmans'.