iise Sustainable Development Best Student Paper competition

Objectives

The Sustainable Development Division recognizes students are a large part of IISE membership and this award will serve as an incentive to encourage students to continue developing the field of sustainability and contributing with high quality research contribution. The winner will be presented at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo May 31 - June 3, 2025, in Atlanta, GA

Eligibility

In order to be qualified for the award, students must:

  • Submit a paper (invited or contributed) for the conference using the usual submission process.
  • Fill out an application.
  • Present their work at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo.

Candidate papers will come from those submitted to the ISERC track and accepted through the regular submission process. The student must be the primary author (first author) of the paper as well as the presenting author. If multiple students are co-authors, all of their names should appear before their advisor in the list of authors.

Only those who will be students (undergraduate or graduate students) on the application submission date are qualified for the best student paper. That means those who will graduate on or after May 1, 2025, will be eligible for the award. Finally, at least one of the co-author students must be a current member of IISE and the Sustainable Development Division at the time of paper submission to be eligible for the award.

Submit papers to Jeremy Rickli

Important Dates (Deadlines)

  • Abstract submissions are due November 10, 2024
  • Abstract decisions will be made by December 15, 2024
  • 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

  • First prize winner(s) will receive a certificate with a hardback cover at the SDD townhall meeting at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo
  • Second and Third prize winners will receive a digital certificate and be recognized at the SDD townhall meeting at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo
  • First, second, and third prize winners will be recognized on the SDD webpage and in the SDD newsletter
  • First, second, and third prize winners will be recognized in ISE magazine.

Committee Chairs

Jeremy Rickli

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.
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