2024 SEM Student Paper Awards
Since its founding in the late 1990s, Correlated Solutions has consistently placed the importance of supporting the next generation of DIC practitioners at the center of its corporate ethos. As part of that effort, for the last 15 years, we have been proud sponsors of the Michael Sutton International Student Paper Competition as a way to shine a light on the student participants at the SEM Annual Conference. We send our heartiest congratulations to the latest round of winners who were announced at the 2024 Annual Conference in Vancouver, WA last week.
1st Place
Larissa F. Kopf (University of Waikato)
Line Scanning Thermography for Corrosion Detection: Towards the Autonomous Quantification of Defects
2nd Place
Barry P. Lawlor (California Institute of Technology)
Full-Field Characterization of Collapsing Pore under Shock Loading
3rd Place
Ellen van Wijngaarden (Cornell University)
Engineering Bacterial Polymers for Biomanufacturing: Characterization of a Novel Polysaccharide
from left: Ellen van Wijingaarden, Larissa F. Kopf, Barry P. Lawlor, Raman P. Singh (President of SEM)
The Michael Sutton International Student Paper Competition, formerly known as the SEM International Student Paper Competition, began as a way to encourage excellence in the field of experimental mechanics by focusing directly on technical communication. The first iteration of the prize was a regional paper competition initiated in 1984 in a joint effort by SEM’s Milwaukee Local Section and SEM’s Student Chapter of Michigan Technological University.
This regional award morphed into a national competition at the 1991 SEM Annual Conference. It was sponsored by SEM’s Milwaukee Local Section along with the Education and Local Sections Committees of SEM, and it featured participation by twelve students from nine different schools. Beginning with the VIII International Congress in 1996, the Competition grew to include students from around the world. In 2009, Correlated Solutions, Inc. began sponsoring the competition.
The presentations were judged on the basis of technical content, organization of material, effectiveness of delivery, adherence to allotted presentation time, and response to questions. The awards were presented on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at the All Society Awards Luncheon.
