CAST Directors' Award

The "CAST Directors' Award," established in 1997, is given for the best poster presentations at the AIChE Annual Meeting. The First Place award consists of a plaque with citation and an honorarium of $500. There may also be up to three posters receiving Honorable Mention. The winners are selected by majority vote of CAST Directors, or substitutes selected by the Directors, who attend the poster session. The results are announced as soon as possible after the meeting and a formal presentation of the plaque and honorarium for the First Place winner will be made at the CAST Award Dinner to author(s) attending the next AIChE Annual Meeting.

On behalf of CAST, we are delighted to announce the winners of the tenth annual CAST Directors' Award for the 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Please join us in congratulating the winners!

Robert Young (for the CAST Directors)

First Place: Source Scale-up for Physical Vapor Deposition of Cu(Inga)Se2 on Flexible Substrates; Kapil Mukati1, Babatunde A. Ogunnaike2, Erten Eser3, Shannon Fields3, and Robert W. Birkmire4. (1) University of Delaware, 150 Academy street, Colburn Lab, Newark, DE 19716, (2) Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 150 Academy St, Newark, DE 19716, (3) Institute of Energy Conversion, University of Delaware, 451 Wyoming Road, Newark, DE 19716, (4) Institute of Energy Conversion, 451 Wyoming Road, Newark, DE 19716. Abstract, link: 303q.

Honorable Mention: Steel Scrap Purchasing Optimization and Supply Management; Ivan Miletic, Rob Garbaty, Stephen Waterfall, and Mary Mathewson. Dofasco, Inc, Box 2460, Hamilton, ON L8N3J5, Canada. Abstract, link: 301h.

Previous Winners from the 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH

First Place: "Group Contribution and Property Clustering Techniques for Simultaneous Process and Molecular Design," Fadwa T. Eljack*1, Mario R. Eden1, Vasiliki Kazantzi2, Mahmoud El-Halwagi2, (1) Auburn University, Auburn, AL, (2) Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. The poster [626 KB, ] is available in pdf format.

Honorable Mentions:

"Landmine Detection in Granular Beds: Behavior of Cumulative Surface Kinetic Energy," Saravanan Swaminathan*1, Donald P. Visco Jr. 1, Sarajit Sen2, (1) Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, (2) University of Buffalo, SUNY, Amherst, NY.

"Probability Model-Based Analysis of Tumor Vasculature Data," Babatunde A. Ogunnaike*1, Claudio A. Gelmi1, Amos Folarin2, Sylvia Nagl2, Moritz A. Konerding3, (1) University of Delaware, Newark, DE, (2) Royal Free Hospital & University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom, (3) Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany.

“Optimization-Based Design of Plant-Friendly Input Signals for Data-Centric Estimation and Control,” Daniel E. Rivera*, Hyunjin Lee, Hans D. Mittelmann, Gautam Pendse, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Previous Winners from the 2004 AIChE Annual Meeting, Austin, TX

First Place: "Computer Aided Molecular Design of DNA: Polymer Complexes using Solubility Correlations and Phase Diagrams" (paper 403k), Elizabeth Morel*, Hui Zhao, C. Russell Middaugh, Kyle V. Camarda, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. The poster [315 KB, ] is available in pdf format.

Honorable Mentions (in order of paper number):

"Excursion Potential in Cyclopentadiene Reactors in the Purification of Isoprene" (Paper 403af), Colin S. Howat*, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. The poster [291 KB,

] is available from the university.

"A Globally Optimal, Dynamic Based, Operating Point Selection Scheme for MPC" (Paper 414t), Donald J. Chmielewski*, Jui-Kun Peng, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL. The poster [343 KB,

] is available in pdf format.

Previous Winners from the 2003 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

First Place: “Nonlinear Feedforward-Feedback Control of a Coupled Mesoscale-Continuum Simulation Code” (paper 439c), Effendi Rusli*, Timothy O. Drews, Xiaohai Li, Richard C. Alkire, Richard D. Braatz, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

Honorable Mentions (in order of paper number):

“Optimization Model for the Production and Scheduling of Catalyst Changeovers in a Process with Decaying Performance” (Paper 426h), Veronique M. Bizet*, Ignacio E. Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Nikola Juhasz, Altofina Chemicals, King of Prussia, PA.

“Robust Online MPC Computational Reduction for Real-Time Control Applications” (Paper 439n), Adam Warren*, Thomas E. Marlin, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

Previous Winners from the 2002 AIChE Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN

First Place: "Open-loop optimization of batch operating policies" (paper 258e), Kenneth R. Muske, Manish Badlani, Villanova University, Phillip C. Dell'Orco, Jeffrey Brum, GlaxoSmithKline.

Honorable Mention: "Design of UV-curable Polymer Coatings: Topological Indices and Optimization Techniques" (paper 246b), Kyle W. Johnson (1), Bao Lin (2), David C. Miller (2), Kyle V. Camarda (1), (1) University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (2) Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN.

Previous Winners from the 2001 AIChE Annual Meeting, Reno, NV

First Place: "Collaboration among Simulation Programs" (paper 267c), Hong Chen*, Yuan He, Kyle V. Camarda, Kenneth A. Bishop, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Honorable Mentions (in order of paper number):

"Pattern Matching in Multivariate Time Series: Application to Batch Fermentation" (Paper 266h), Ashish Singhal*, Dale E. Seborg, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Real-Time, Robust, Multi-rate, Nonlinear State Estimation in a Polymerization Reactor (Paper 266x), Neeraj Zambare*, Masoud Soroush, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, Michael Grady, E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Philadelphia, PA.

*Speaker