iise Manufacturing and Design (m&d) division Outstanding Young Investigator Award
This award recognizes outstanding early-career Manufacturing and Design (M&D) Division members for their technical contribution to manufacturing and design.
Award promotion process
Each year a call for nominations will be released in October through the IEFAC list serve and an email broadcast to all M&D Division members.
Eligibility requirements
- Member of IISE and the M&D division.
- Must have made high-impact scientific contributions to the manufacturing and design field as evidenced by their research endeavors including publications, intellectual property and other funding and dissemination activities.
- Be within 6 years from graduation of terminal degree (Ph.D.) or 10 years from graduation of Bachelors degree as of July 1 of the year of the award.
- Have demonstrated active participation in the M&D division (evidence includes but is not limited to IISE conference presentations/papers, publication in IISE Transactions, and service to the M&D division).
- Have made high impact scientific contributions to the manufacturing and design field as evidenced by their research endeavors including publications, intellectual property and other funding and dissemination activities.
- Have not previously received the Manufacturing and Design Outstanding Young Investigator Award.
Application process
- Candidates can be nominated by others. Self-nominations are not allowed.
- Nominations are due by Feb. 28 at 5 p.m. Eastern time.
- Email nomination package, one single PDF file to the OYI Award Committee Chair,
Guha Manogharan.
Nomination package
must include
- Name
- Affiliation
- Position
- Contact information
- Birth date
- Nominator’s complete contact information
Attachments:
- Candidate’s personal statement of specific technical contribution(s) that qualify them for this award (max. 2 pages).
- Curriculum vita (max. 10 pages).
- Three letters of recommendation (each limited to 2 pages). This includes the nominator's letter highlighting candidate's technical contributions and achievements.
General information
- An award committee chaired by an appointed member of the M&D board will review all applications following the division’s award evaluation protocols. The award recipient will be notified by the committee chair (an M&D board officer) by email no later than April 1, 2023.
- Registration for the IISE Annual Conference & Expo is not required for 2023.
Recognition Process
- Framed certificate provided by IISE.
- Recognition at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo: magazine
- at the M&D Town Hall Meeting
- in Honors and Awards program
- Recognition in ISE
- Recognition on
M&D website and in the newsletter
Deadlines
- Nomination deadline: 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Feb. 28, 2023
Email nomination package, one single PDF file to the OYI Award Committee Chair, Guha Manogharan.
- Winner will be notified: April 1, 2023
For questions, please contact
Brian Charles.
2022 Winner
Xiaowei Yue
Virginia Tech
2021 Winner
Dr. Chenhui Shao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Past winners
Manufacturing and Design Division page