The Session Organizer of the Year Award was established in 1997 by the Society’s Board of Directors 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. At the annual banquet, the TPC chair of the ISOPE conference or a chair-designated TPC member presents the Session Organizer of the Year Award 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 the prior year.
From the ISOPE-2004 Technical Program Committee