This award is presented by the ISA Publications Department to recognize the Best Paper Published in ISA Transactions in the previous year. ISA Transactions plays an important role in maintaining ISA‘s visibility and reputation in the automation and control research community.
Award Recipients
2015
Lotfi Saidi, Jaouher Ben Ali, and Farhat Fnaiech were the recipients for their paper, Application of higher order spectral features and support vector machines for bearing faults classification, which appeared in Volume 54, January 2015.
2014
Jun-yong Zhai and Wen-ting Zha were the recipients for their paper, Global adaptive output feedback control for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems, which appeared in Volume 53, Issue 1.
2013
Ryo Tanaka, Hiroki Shibasaki, Hiromitsu Ogawa, Takahiro Murakami, and Yoshihisa Ishida were the recipients for their paper, Controller design approach based on linear programming, which appeared in Volume 52, Issue 6.
2012
David Kuhm, Dominique Knittel, and Marie-Ange Bueno were the recipents for their paper, Robust control strategies for an electric motor driven accumulator with elastic webs, which appeared in Volume 51, Issue 6.
2011
Young-Chul Choi, Jin-Ho Park, and Kyoung-Sik Choi were the recipients for their paper, An impact source localization technique for a nuclear power plant by using sensors of different types, which appeared in Volume 50, Number 1.
2010
Subhasis Chaudhuri, Rajeev Kumar Singh, Kuntal Patwari, Susanta Majumdar, Asim Kumar Ray, Arun Kumar Prasad Singh, and Nirbhar Neogi were the recipients for their paper, Design and implementation of an automated secondary cooling system for the continuous casting of billets, which appeared in Volume 49, Number 1.
2009
Belle R. Upadhyaya, Lonnie A. Coffey, and Fan Li were the recipients for their paper entitled, Model-based monitoring and fault diagnosis of fossil power plant process units using Group Method of Data Handling, which appeared in Volume 48, Number 2.
2008
Matej Gašperin, Ðani Juricic, Bojan Musizza, and Igor Mekjavic were the recipients for their paper, A model-based approach to the evaluation of flame-protective garments, which appeared in Volume 47, Number 2.
2007
Terry L. Blevins, Willy K. Wojsznis, Peter Wojsznis, Dirk Thiele, and Ashish Mehta were the recipients for their paper, Multi-objective optimization for model predictive control, which appeard in Volume 46, Number 3.
Rafael Fierro, Ph.D. and Justin Clark were the recipients for their paper, Mobile robotic sensors for perimeter detection and tracking, which appeared in Volume 46, Number 1.
2006
D. Theilliol, H. Noura, D. Sauter, and F. Hamelin are the recipients for their paper, Sensor fault diagnosis based on energy balance evaluation: Application to a metal processing, which appeard in Volume 45, Number 4.
2005 Winners
Professor Jose L. Paredes and Mr. Dhionel Diaz were the recipients for their paper, Improving immunization of programmable logic controllers using weighted median filters, which appeard in Volume 44, Number 2.
2004 Winners
Brian L.F. Daku,Enas M.A. Mohamed, and Arnfinn F. Prugger were the recipients for their paper, A PVDF transducer for low-frequency acceleration measurements, which appeard in Volume 43, Number 3.
2003 Winner
Mikael M. Nordman was the recipient for his paper, A Task Scheduler Framework for Self-Powered Wireless Sensors, which appeared in Volume 42, Number 2.
2002 Winner
R. Dubay was the recipient for his paper, Self-Optimizing MPC of Melt Temperature in Injection Moulding, which appeared in Volume 41, Number 1.
John McCamey Award
This award is presented by the ISA Publication Department in honor of Mr. John McCamey, a member who served the Society for many years within the Publications Department, as well as the Society as a whole. It recognizes a promising young author who publishes their first article in one of the Society's publications.
Award Recipients
2014–2016
No awards presented.
2013
Danaca Jordan, Greg McMillan, Héctor Torres, and Hunter Vegas were the recipients for their article, Enabling new automation engineers, which was judged to be the best Student Paper Presentation during the past year.
2012 Winner
Alex Tirtichny was the recipient for his paper, “Education a big part of being automation professional” which was judged to be the best Student Paper Presentation during the past year.
2008 Winner
Yuqiu You was the recipient for her paper, It's all in the LANs, Manufacturing Remote Control over a Local Area Network, was judged to be the best Student Paper Presentation during the past year.
2007 Winner
Adam Leeper was the recipient for his article, Instrumentation of High Speed Inertial Exercise Device Using Load Cell Transducers.
Keith Otto Award
This award is presented by the ISA Publications Department in honor of Mr. Keith Otto, a member who served the Society for many years, particularly as the Chair of the InTech Editorial Advisory Board. It recognizes the authors of the best article in InTech magazine.
Award Recipients
2015
Donald G. Dunn and Nicholas Sands were the recipients for their article, Automation IT – Diagnosing your alarm system, which appeared in the July/August 2015 issue of InTech.
2014 Winner
Leif Poulsen was the recipient for his article, Life-cycle and long-term migration planning: Successfully upgrading and replacing systems in a running production environment, which appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of InTech.
2013 Winner
Harmik Begi, Gregory Bischoff, and Josh Gangl were the recipients for the best InTech magazine article in 2013 entitled, Process Automation—Biopharmaceutical single-to-multiproduct conversion.
2012 Winner
Chuck Mina was the recipient for the best InTech magazine article in 2012, Disposable automation.
2011 Winner
David Twohig was the recipient for the best article in InTech magazine in 2011, Utility Optimization—Driving economic performance through the utilization of automation technologies.
2010 Winner
Graham Nasby and Matthew Phillips were the recipeints for the best InTech article entitled, “SCADA standardization: Modernization of a municipal waterworks with SCADA standardization: Past, present, and planning for the future.”
2009 Winner
Bryce H. Elliott, P.E. was the recipeintfor the best InTech article entitled, “When failsafe isn't enough”.
2008 Winner
Chris O'Brien is the recipient for the best InTech article, High-integrity overflow protection.
2007 Winners
Svein Vatland, Trond Michael Andersen, Svein Vatland, and Paula Doyle for the best InTech article, Oil Company of the Future, Wireless, Real-time Data Keys to Growth for Statoil Technology Consortium.
2006 Winners
Gary Goble and Todd R. Stauffer for the best InTech article, Don't Be Alarmed—Avoid Unplanned Downtime from Alarm Overload, Use Top Techniques to Improve Alarm Management.
2005 Winners
Vivek Bapat, Andreas Somogyi, Alfonso E. Gutierrez, and Raj Veeramani, PhD are the recipiencts for the best InTech article, On the radio—RFID moves upstream from supply chain and into heart of manufacturing operations.
2004 Winners
Eric Byres and Justin Lowe is the recipeint for the best InTech article, Insidious threat to control systems—The move to open standards is letting hackers take advantage of the control industry's ignorance.
Nels Tyring Award
This award is presented by the ISA Publications Department in honor of Mr. Nels Tyring, an ISA member who served the Society for many years, particularly as the Chair of the Journals Editorial Advisory and Oversight Committee. It recognizes the author(s) of the best article in one of the Society’s journals.
Award Recipients
2015
Moazzam Shamsi is the recipient for his article, System Integration: Wired versus wireless trade-offs, which appeared in the January/ February 2015 issue of InTech and was judged to be the best published article in an ISA journal this past year.
2014 Winner
Allan Kern was the recipient for his article, Multivariable control performance: The case for model-less multivariable control, which appeared in the July/August 2014 issue of InTech and was judged to be the best published article in an ISA journal this past year.
2013
Dr. Robert Rice and Richard Bontatibus were the recipients for their article, Automation IT—Predictive maintenance embraces analytics, which was judged to be the best article published in an ISA journal the past year.
2012
Dennis Brandl was the recipient for his article, Business-to-shop integration realized through B2MML, was judged to be the best article published in an ISA journal the past year.
2011
Troy Miller was the recipient for his 2011 article, Success in energy conservation: Emerging best practices, technologies in energy management, which was judged to be the best article published in InTech during the past year.
2010
Scott W. Sommers, PE, CAP, CCST was the recipient for his 2009 Special Section article, Get your feet wet: Industrial users can get started with wireless implementation by following a few guidelines was judged to be the best article published in InTech during the past year.
2009
Thomas M. Canty was the recipient for his April 2009 article, A crude vision was judged to be the best article published in InTech during the past year.
2008
Patrick Schweitzer was the recipient for his April 2008 article, Beauty and the Beast, Users Want Happy Union with Wireless, but Doubts Linger which was judged to be the best article published in InTech during the past year.
2007
May Robin Permann, John Hammer, Kenneth R. Rohde, and Kathleen A. Lee were the recipients for their March 2007 InTech cover story, What Happens in Plant Stays in Plant—INL Control System Plant Assessments Reveal Inconsistencies That Prompt a Primer on Security Measures.
2006
Mark Cusac, James Muri, and Saed Hussain were the recipients for their March 2006 InTech article, Steady Upstream for Loose Control—Custom-built proportional integral loops overcome PLC software limitation.
2005
Hans Wagner was the recipient for his April 2005 InTech article, Ultrasonic spots leaky valves—There are significant savings involved in identification and monitoring of critical valves.
Raymond D. Molloy Award
Presented by the ISA Publications Department, this award was named for Raymond D. Molloy who was a major driving force in the ISA publications program for more than 20 years. As Department Vice President and then later as chair of the Books Committee, Mr. Molloy maintained a keen interest in ISA publishing quality books that meet the needs of measurement and control professionals. On his death in 1996, the Publication Department chose to honor his contributions by establishing this award.
Paul Gruhn, PE, CFSE and Harry L. Cheddie, PE, CFSE were the 2015 recipients for their book, Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification, Second Edition, sold the most units of any book published by ISA in 2015.
Ronald L. Krutz, PhD, PE wasthe 2013 recipient of the “Raymond D. Molloy Award.” Dr. Krutz’s book, Industrial Automation and Control System Security Principles, sold the most units of any book published by ISA in 2013.
Jim Pinto was the recipient for his book, Automation Unplugged: Pinto’s Perspectives, Pointers, and Prognostications.
Thomas G. Fisher Award
This award is presented by the ISA Publications department and the ISA Standards and Practices Department in honor of Mr. Thomas G. Fisher, a member and ISA Fellow who served the Society for many years and in particular as Publications Department Vice President, Editor of ISA Transactions, author of books, contributor to standards committees of ISA84, ISA5.1, ISA95, and the driving force of the ISA88 batch control committee. The award is presented to the author(s) of the best new standards-based ISA book in the previous calendar year.
