Ayer of ExxonMobil is the 2002 Session Organizer of the Year

Honolulu, Hawaii, May 28, 2003 — Prof. Jin S Chung, Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chairman announced that Dr. Raghavan Ayer, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company, is the recipient of the ISOPE-2003 Session Organizer of the Year Award. He solicited 32 abstracts in high-performance materials in offshore industry and related fields. Prof. Masashi Kashiwagi, the 2002 Session Organizer of the Year Awardee from Kyushu University, Japan presented the Award plaque to Dr. Raghavan Ayer at the Annual ISOPE Conference Banquet, May 28: Click on banquet photos.

Session Organizer of the Year Award was established in 1997 by the Board of Directors for the Society to recognize an individual’s selfless effort and contribution to the organization of sessions at ISOPE conferences and to encourage others to view that individual as a role model. The technical program committee (TPC) chair of the ISOPE conference or chair-designated TPC member presents a Session Organizer of the Year Award (at the Annual Banquet), one per year to a session organizer who has successfully invited the largest number of papers or successfully established and organized a new technical field of the Society in prior year.

From ISOPE-2003 Technical Program Committee