Excellence in Technical Presentation

Description

Recognizes the most outstanding paper, article, presentation, or document published and/or presented on behalf of ISA that introduces a new technology or explains an existing automation process.

Criteria

Technical papers and/or presentations presented at an ISA event in the previous year and/or articles or documents that have not been preofessionally edited (e.g., InTech articles) and were not written under contract, published by ISA in the previous year, are eligible for consideration. The author or at least one co-author must be a current ISA member. The presentation must introduce a new technology or explain an existing automation process. The purpose, discourse, and treatment of subject matter is easily discernible, or definite, or comprehensible so that a qualified reader/viewer has no unanswered questions.

Nomination Process

Top technical papers and/or presentations and outstanding Division symposia papers as judged by the Division are automatically nominated. Technical papers, presentations,  articles, papers, or documents that meet the criteria identified above may be submitted by members at large on the proper form by the designated deadline. Society Officers are not eligible for nomination during their term of office.

Administration and Judging

Papers, presentations, and/or documents are reviewed and rated by a designated committee using common criteria. The top five papers, presentations and/or documents, based on numerical scoring by the review committee are presented to an Honors and Awards subcommittee for final review and  selection. Recommendation of the Honors and Awards Committee is submitted to the Executive Board for approval.

Past Honorees

2015 Paul Little
2015 Jie Zhu
2015 Phil Harris
2014 Bill R. Hollifield
2014 Hector R. Perez
2013 Ty Campbell (co-author)
2013 Robert L. Farmer (co-author)
2013 Udo Gellert (co-author)
2012 Mitchell Johnson (co-author)
2012 Allan G. Gilson (co-author)