Chair

Dongming Zhu
NASA-Glenn Research Center
21000 Brookpark Rd. MS 24-1
Cleveland, OH 44135

dongming.zhu@grc.nasa.gov
Phone: 216-433-5422
Fax: 216-433-5544

Chair-Elect

 wereszczakaa@ornl.gov
Phone: 865-576-1169

Vice-Chair/Treasurer

Jonathan Salem
NASA-Glenn Research Center
21000 Brookpark Rd.
Cleveland, Ohio 44135

jonathan.a.salem@nasa.gov
Phone: 216-433-3313
Fax: 216-977-7051

Trustee

Mrityunjay Singh
NASA-Glenn Research Center
MS 106-5, Ceramics Branch
21000 Brookpark Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44135-3191

msingh@grc.nasa.gov

Phone: 216-433-8883

Fax: 216-433-5544

Nominations are invited for the James I. Mueller and the Bridge Building Awards .

Award presentations will be made during the 33rd Annual International Conference on

Advanced Ceramics and Composites held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 18-23,

2009.

Please submit your nominations, including a written statement of the nominee's

qualifications and contributions, by July 15, 2008.

Daytona Beach Best Poster and Paper Awards

ECD selects Daytona Beach Best Papers and Best Posters each year from the papers and posters that are presented at the Annual Daytona Beach Conference.

The Daytona Beach Best Paper Awards must be selected from the papers that are presented at the Cocoa Beach Conference and submitted in the written paper format for the Conference proceeding publications, and that are recommended or nominated for Best Paper award consideration by one of the Conference paper technical reviewers or an ECD member.  Invited papers are not eligible for awards.

The Best Paper Award Selection Committee will consist of ECD Program Chair, and ECD Vice Program Chair (Chair-Elect), Proceeding Editor and Co-Editor, ECD Awards Committee Chair. Additional Award Selection Committee members may include the ECD awards committee members, and/or other technical reviewers.

The Best Paper Selection Committee will evaluate the recommended and/or nominated candidate papers using the criteria of “Originality”, “Quality and Thoroughness of Methods, Tests and Applications”, “Style”, “Technical/Scientific Strength”, and “Impact to the Ceramics Community” to select the Best Papers.

The Daytona Beach Best Poster Awards must be selected from the posters that are presented at the Daytona Beach Conference during the specified poster presentation period when the poster evaluation is performed.

The Best Poster Award selection committee will consist of ECD Awards Committee Chair, and the Award Committee Members. Additional Award Selection Committee members may include ECD Program Chair, and other technical reviewers.

The Best Poster Selection Committee will evaluate all eligible posters using the criteria of “Quality of Presentation”, “Quality and Thoroughness of Methods, Tests and Applications”, “Technical/Scientific Strength”, and “Impact to the Ceramics Community” to select the Best Posters.

The Best Papers and Best Posters must be in the upper twenty percentile, based on the selection committee’s overall evaluations.

The Best Paper Awards and Best Poster awards will consist of the first, second and third prizes. The cash awards for the first, second and third place prizes of each award category (the Best Paper or Best Poster) will be $500, $300 and $200, respectively. All winning authors will also receive award certificates.

Honorable mentions will be made at the Awards Committee’s discretion.

The identification of papers/poster specific evaluations will be destroyed after the ACerS Annual meeting.