Energy Systems (ES) Division Best Student Paper Award

This award recognizes one student-led paper with the highest level of excellence submitted to the Energy Systems (ES) Track at the IISE 2025 Annual Conference.

Eligibility

The following criteria are necessary for consideration for this award:

  • The lead author is a student and a student member of IISE and the ES division.
  • Finalists must be able to attend the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May 31 - June 3, 2025.
  • Finalists will present their papers in the ES division town hall meeting.

Application Process

  • Authors who wish to be considered for this award can self-nominate by emailing the Best Student Paper committee chairs, Kibaek Kim and Robert Mieth, after submitting their abstracts.
  • The email subject should read “Best Paper Competition Nomination [main author full name], [affiliation], [abstract ID]”.
  • The deadline for full-paper submissions and self-nomination is February 9, 2025, 5pm ET.
  • Note: Student-led papers are eligible for both the “Energy Systems Track Best Paper Award” and the “Energy Systems Track Best Student Paper Award” competitions.

Evaluation Process

  • All competing papers will be reviewed by an expert panel in a double-blind process.
  • Three finalists will be invited to present at the ES town hall meeting.
  • The finalists will be announced by March 9, 2025.
  • The winning paper will be selected based on a combined score of paper and presentation.

Important Dates (Deadlines)

  • Full paper submissions are due February 9, 2025
  • Notification on full paper decisions are due March 9, 2025
  • Winners/Finalists will be notified by March 15, 2025
  • Speaker registration deadline:  March 23, 2025
  • Paper final revision submission deadline:  March 31, 2025

Recognition

  • Recognition at the ES Town Hall Meeting at Annual Conference
  • Certificate provided by IISE (either mailed or given at the town hall meeting) for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners.
  • Recognition in ISE magazine
  • Recognition on ES webpage and in the newsletter

Committee Chairs

Conflict of Interest Policy

  • Societies and divisions must follow standard conflict of interest guidelines. Those guidelines include, but are not limited to:
  • Officers and Board members of the S/D should be ineligible for awards during the period of their service, without approval by the Senior VP for Technical Operations (SVP). Exceptions may only be made by the SVP when awards are time sensitive (i.e., a Student Best Paper Award for a Student Board Member, when the student is graduating), and the impacted board member(s) or officer(s) must recuse themselves from the award process. For awards that are not time-sensitive, the nominee should wait until their Officer or Board service is complete to be nominated.
  • The awards committee (or judging committee) should not include members who have either a personal or professional relationship with the nominees. For example, a faculty member should not be judging a paper competition where a student from the same university is a nominee for best student paper award.
  • The awards committee (or judging committee) should actively change its membership on a rotating basis from year to year to ensure fairness, equity, and diversity. That is, some members of the judging committee should roll off the committee and new members should roll on.

For questions, please contact Amy Straub

2024 Winners

Energy Systems Best Student Paper
Winner: Michael Beacher, Tarun Arasu, Mark Rodgers, David Coit, and Jennifer Senick, Rutgers University
Title: Quantification of Human Health Externalities Associated with Power Grid Expansion Plans

2023 Winners

Energy Systems Best Student Paper
Winner: Weijie Pan, The George Washington University
Title: Physical Modeling of Integrated Power Systems for Capacity and Technology Choices
Co-authors: Ekundayo Shittu

2022 Winners

Energy Systems Best Student Paper
Winner: Ashutosh Shukla, University of Texas Austin
Title: Budget Allocation in Optimizing Power Grid Resilience to Extreme Weather: Hardening, Pre-event Preparation, or Recovery?
Co-authors: B Austgen, E Kutanoglu, J Hasenbein

Past winners

Energy Systems Division page

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