SPIE/ASME Best Student Paper Presentation Contest
SPIE and the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Technical Committee are sponsoring the best student paper presentation contest. Entrants will be judged by a committee of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Technical Committee. The finalists will present their papers at a special session on Monday evening of the meeting. The committee will then vote to determine the top three finalists. The top six finalist student authors and/or student co-authors will receive certificates and cash awards.
2008 winners:
- 1st Place Award Winner
Magnetomechanical coupling factor and energy density of single crystal iron-gallium alloys
Author: Supratik Datta, Univ. of Maryland/College Park - 2nd Place Award Winner
Dynamic strain-field hysteresis model for ferromagnetic shape-memory Ni-Mn-Ga.
Author: Neelesh Sarawate, The Ohio State Univ. - 3rd Place Award Winner
Design and characterization of the CLoVER transducer for structural health monitoring.
Author: Ken Salas, Univ. of Michigan - Honorable Mention
Fully-coupled magnetoelastic model for Galfenol alloys incorporating eddy current losses and thermal relaxation.
Author: Phillip Evans, The Ohio State Univ. - Honorable Mention
Simultaneous transformation and plastic deformation in shape memory alloys.
Author: Darren Hartl, Texas A&M Univ. - Honorable Mention
Model-based design of rectification valves for a smart material electro-hydrostatic actuator. Author: Thomas Walters, The Ohio State Univ.
The ASME Technical Committee presents two awards annually:
- Best Paper in Structures
- Best Paper in Materials.
To be considered for this award, submissions must be received by the due date of 31 December 2008.
2008 winners:
- Best Paper in Structures:
"On the efficiencies of piezoelectric energy harvesting circuits towards storage device voltages," M. J. Guan and W. H. Liao, Smart Materials and Structures Lab., The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong; Shatin, N.T., 2007 Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 16 - Best Paper in Materials:
“Experimental evidence of end effects in magneto-electric laminate composites,” Chang, C.-M., Carman, G. P., Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Journal of Applied Physics Volume: 102 Article Number: 124901
Smart Structures Product Implementation Award
The 2008 Smart Structures Product Implementation Award was presented to Face International Corporation and PulseSwitch Systems, LC, for their Lightning Switch product.
The 2009 award will be presented during SPIE’s 2009 Smart Structures and Materials Symposium in front of a group of peers and potential customers.
ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award
This award is given for notable contribution(s) to the field of Adaptive Structures and Material Systems.
- 2008 winner: Ibrahim Karaman, Texas A&M University
