Best Paper Awards to
Dr. Ayer, ExxonMobil and Dr. Yu, University of Tokyo
at ISOPE-2005 Seoul Banquet
Seoul, Korea June 22, 2005 ¾ The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) announced the recipients of two Best Paper Awards at the ISOPE-2005 Seoul (“ISOPE-POSCO”) Banquet:
A. Ozekcin, H. W. Jin, J. Y. Koo, N. V. Bangaru and R. Ayer, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey, USA; G. Vaughn, Formerly with ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas, USA; R. Steel and S. Packer, Megastir Technologies, Provo, Utah, USA.
International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering (ISSN 1053-5381), Vol 14, No 4, pp 284-288; Proceedings of the Fourteenth (2004) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISBN 1-880653-64-8, ISSN 1098-6189), Toulon, France, May 23-28, 2004, Vol 4, pp 61-66.
A System of Multi-AUV Interlinked with a Smart Cable for Autonomous Inspection of Underwater Structures
Son-Cheol Yu and Tamaki Ura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Experiments on a System of Multi-AUV Interlinked with a Smart Cable for Autonomous Inspection of Underwater Structures
Son-Cheol Yu and Tamaki Ura, University of Tokyo, Japan
International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering (ISSN 1053-5381), Vol 14, No 4, pp 265-278; Proceedings of the Fourteenth (2004) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISBN 1-880653-64-8, ISSN 1098-6189), Toulon, France, May 23-28, 2004, Vol 3, pp 222-229.
The papers were presented at the Fourteenth (2004) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Toulon, France, May 23-28, 2004 (Click on banquet photos.)
On behalf of Prof. Ivar Lanegn, Society Award Committee Chairman, Prof. Richard Miksad, the Award Committee member, presented the Award plaques to Dr. Ayer and Dr. Yu (in absence). He explained that the Committee, after evaluating 17 nominations, had short-listed 4 papers, on hydrodynamics, structural mechanics and materials, and underwater control. As the paper selected as Best Paper must receive at least 3 evaluations, the Committee then asked a panel of experts in each field in 3 continents for an expert evaluation. Screening through the qualification requirements ¾ originality and significance of the results ¾ and based on the 3 and 7 expert evaluations, respectively, the Committee recommended that not one, but two Best Papers be awarded from the Fourteenth (2004) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference.
Prof. Shigeru Naito, president, the Japan Society of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineers presented Osaka Prize to Dr. Ayer et al. for their paper.
Nomination and Evaluation Procedure. Session chairmen, session organizers and editors of the International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering made their nominations from among the papers presented in the previous year. Only those papers are initially selected that either have already been accepted for Journal publication or are slated for further Journal review. Then a pool of potential judges, who are very knowledgeable in one or more fields of the nominees' topics, or have chaired or co-chaired the particular sessions, ranked the papers in their field(s) on the basis of the originality and significance of the results. (The nominees are naturally excluded from the list of judges.) The nominated papers represent expertise areas as well as geographic balance.
From the ISOPE Award Committee; meetings@isope.org