Student Paper Competition Winners

Past First Place Winners
2012: Min Li, North Carolina State University
2011: Jinlin Zhang & Priscilla Tan, North Carolina State University (group paper)
2010: Changhai Xu, North Carolina State University (tie)
Mehmet Ozturk, Istanbul Technical University (tie)
2009: Christopher A. Hubbell, Georgia Institute of Technology
(No International Conference held in 2008)
2007: Murari Gupta, Georgia Institute of Technology
2006: John Onori, undergraduate student, North Carolina State University

Beginning in 2006, undergraduate and graduate students compete together, with a weighting factor for undergraduate entries.

2006: Ericka N. Johnson, University of Southern Mississippi (graduate student)
2005: Yiping Lu, University of Georgia (graduate student)
         Isaac Shomer, Pennsylvania State University (undergraduate student)
2004: Wang Lu, University of Georgia (graduate student)
         Julie Galbraith, Heriot-Watt University (undergraduate student)
2003: Dapeng Li, University of California, Davis (graduate student)
2002: Gopinath Mani, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth (graduate student)
          Archana Chaudary, North Carolina State University (undergraduate student)
2001: W. Alex Rapp, Institute of Textile Technology (graduate student)
         Kelly D. Veatch, Kansas State University (undergraduate student)
2000: Sara L. Draper, North Carolina State University (graduate student)
         Jacqueline M. Hill, Heriot-Watt University (undergraduate student)
1999: Louise L. Ko, University of California (graduate student)
1998: Beth White, Georgia Institute of Technology (graduate student)
         Amy C. Lumley, Kansas State University (undergraduate student)
1997: Vikram Sayal, University of Georgia (graduate student)
         K. M. Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (undergraduate student)
1996: Melissa Phillips Day, Louisiana State University (graduate student)
         Elias R. Dau, University of Georgia (undergraduate student)
(1995 entry withdrawn prior to presentation)
1994: Renita S. Jinkins, University of Georgia (graduate student)
         Douglas M. Barr, Scottish College of Textiles (undergraduate student)

From 1994 through 2005, separate awards were presented for the best undergraduate and graduate papers.

1993:       Anurag Bairathi, University of Georgia
1992:       Ajoy K. Sarkar, University of Georgia
1991:       Siamak Jamshibi-Barzi, University of Sherbrooke
1990:       Pantea Sarabi, University of Sherbrooke
1989:       Diana G. Johnson, Kansas State University
1988:       Susan J. Mangan, University of Tennessee
1987:       Richard Fortin, University of Sherbrooke
1986:       Julie B. Brumbelow, Auburn University
1985:       Prasad S. Potnis, University of Tennessee
1984:       Debbie J. Jose, University of Maryland
1983:       Lynne Macy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1982:       Jaw-Hau Chiao-Cheng, Kansas State University

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