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SEM Student Competition

International Student Paper Presentation Competition

Held Every Year at the

SEM Annual Conference and Exposition

Prizes

1st Place $300 Cash
Handbook on Experimental Mechanics (Hardbound), Second Edition 
SEM Student Membership 
Publication of paper in Experimental Techniques
2nd Place $200 Cash
Manual of Experimental Stress Analysis 
SEM Student Membership 
Publication of paper in Experimental Techniques
3rd Place $100 Cash
SEM Student Membership 
Publication of paper in Experimental Techniques
   
Competitors in the 2007 Student Paper Competition

The Student Paper Competitions were originated to encourage excellence in technical communication in the experimental mechanics field. A regional paper competition was initiated in 1984 in a joint effort by SEM's Milwaukee Local Section and SEM's Student Chapter of Michigan Technological University. Since that time, students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Michigan Technological University have participated in the regional competition held each spring in Milwaukee at one of the regular local section meetings.

The first national competition was held during the 1991 SEM Spring Conference. The competition was sponsored by SEM's Milwaukee Local Section along with the Education and Local Sections Committees of SEM. Twelve students from nine different schools participated in the competition..

If you are a full time student and are working on a project, thesis or dissertation that is at a point that some phase of it can be presented at the Annual Conference held in June, you are encouraged to enter.

If your paper is selected for the competition, you receive free conference registration and a ticket to the Awards Luncheon. Transportation, lodging and other expenses to attend the conference should be provided by you or your university.

For more information, click here.

 

Past Recipients are:

2007    
1st Place Jorge Jimenez-Rios Carnegie Mellon University
2nd Place Bret Stanford University of Florida
3rd Place Peter Tavilla University of Massachusetts, Lowell
     
2006    
1st Place Kristin Schaaf

University of California, San Diego

2nd Place Samantha Daly California Institute of Technology 
3rd Place Srinivasan Arjun Tekalur University of Rhode Island
     
2005    
1st Place Christopher Kovalchick The Johns Hopkins University
2nd Place Thomas Plaisted University of California, San Diego
3rd Place S. A. Tekalur University of Rhode Island
     
2004    
1st Place Adam Mulliken Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2nd Place Serkan Inceoglu The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
3rd Place Lucian Speriatu University of Florida , Gainesville

   

2003

   
1st Place Gavin Horn University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2nd Place Rani F. El-Hajjar Georgia Institute of Technology
3rd Place Kaiwen Xia California Inst. of Technolgy
 

2002

   
1st Place Angus M. Morison Michigan Technological University
2nd Place K. M. Vernaza-Pena University of Notre Dame
3rd Place Anthony Puckett University of Maine
 
2001    
1st Place Leishen Chen University of Florida
2nd Place Luoyu Roy Xu California Institute of Technology
3rd Place Michelle Oyen-Tiesma University of Minnesota
     
2000    
1st Place Alexandra Ahlqvist University of Central Florida
2nd Place Scott A. Miers Michigan Technological University
3rd Place Shawn P. McBride University of Rhode Island
     
1999    
1st Place Teresa L. Halverson The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2nd Place Salman H. Gharaibeh University of Utah
3rd Place Kenneth W. Miller The University of South Carolina
     
1998    
1st Place Xiaokai Niu University of Florida
2nd Place James T. Grutta Michigan Technological University
3rd Place Kevin T. Turner The Johns Hopkins University
     
1997    
1st Place David LaVan The Johns Hopkins University
2nd Place Francesco Lanza di Scalea Michigan State University
3rd Place Kristina Haermanson University of Wisconsin-Madison
     
1996
1st Place B.J. Koeppel Michigan Technological University
2nd Place A. West Iowa State University
3rd Place B. Yuan The Johns Hopkins University
 
1995
1st Place Jeffrey D. Helm The University of South Carolina
2nd Place Theresa M. Ahlborn University of Minnesota
3rd Place Anand Rao Michigan Technological University
     
1994    
1st Place Robert J. Bonenberger University of Maryland
2nd Place Suhas P. Vaze University of Notre Dame
3rd Place Hong C. Rhim Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     
1993    
1st Place Frank Sienkiewicz University of Rhode Island
2nd Place Kin Liao Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
3rd Place Kenneth Mally Michigan Technological University
     
1992    
1st Place David R. Derkits Yorktown High School
2nd Place Bradley R. Patton Michigan Technological University
3rd Place Lei Wang Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
     
1991    
1st Place Kristin Zimmerman Michigan State University
2nd Place Eric F. Little Michigan Technological University
3rd Place Rob L. Tregoning The Johns Hopkins University
  
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