North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) Student Award

Sponsor(s):

AIChE's North American Mixing Forum

Description:

The NAMF Student Award was established to encourage, recognize and reward students for quality research in the area of mixing. Any graduate or undergraduate student doing research in the field of Fluid Mixing at an accredited University in North America is eligible. An applicant must submit a paper (as for a journal publication in electronic form) describing his or her work in mixing to the NAMF Student Awards Committee Chair (see below). The paper should conform to the following format: 1) Cover letter: Title of Work, Name(s) and Address(es) of Author(s); 2) Abstract; 3) Introduction (Aquaint the reviewer with the area of study); 4) Theory or Model Development (Theoretical basis of work); 5) Experimental Set-up/Procedures; 6) Results and Discussion; 7) Conclusions/Recommendations; 8) References.
A previous winner of this award may compete again, but will not be eligible for the travel expenses and the registration fees for the conference, even if selected as a finalist. Note: Those applicants who have already submitted abstract(s) in response to the abstract request for the NAMF Meeting are also eligible to participate.

Deadline:

Paper(s) must be received by March 15, 2010. Finalist(s) will be selected and invited to present the paper(s) at the 22nd North American Mixing Conference, June 20-25 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Submit nominations to the Chair of the NAMF Student Award Committee: Richard K. Grenville, DuPont Engineering Technology, 1007 Market Street, B8214, Wilmington, DE 19898, ph: 302-774-2256, fax: 302-774-2457, e-mail: richard.k.grenville@usa.dupont.com.

Award:

The winner will be notified during the conference and will be presented with a plaque and an award of $500 at the NAMF Award Banquet. Members of the NAMF Student Award Committee as well as a pre-selected group of NAMF members attending the Conference will select the winner(s) at the conference. NAMF will cover both the travel expenses (reasonable value) and the registration fees (at the student rate, which requires sharing a room) for the finalist(s).

Presentation:

Final selection will be based on the submitted paper and the presentation at the NAMF Conference. The Award Committee’s decision is final and NOT subject to review by anyone.