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Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2025 (EMI 2025)

Anaheim, California | –

EMI Elasticity Student Paper Competition

Purpose

  • Increase student involvement in the EMI conference, particularly in the area of Elasticity.
  • familiarize students with new frontiers and emerging topics in Elasticity.
  • Foster technical interaction between students and faculty and facilitate networking.
  • Improve student’s technical writing and presentation skills, as well as promote high‐quality submissions to the flagship journal of the EMI, the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.

Requirements

  • Be a full time student at the time of abstract submission and the main contributor to the research.
  • Submit an abstract as the leading author in the thematic area of elasticity to the EMI abstract submission website by the conference deadline. Submission to an Elasticity sponsored minisymposium is encouraged but not required.
  • Participate only in the Elasticity student paper competition. Participation in multiple competitions will automatically disqualify you from this competition.
  • Express interest in participating in the paper competition by emailing Dr. Fatemeh Pourahmadian at [email protected] by March 1, 2025. She will reply and provide the paper template.
  • Submit a Three- page paper (PDF file) on your abstract/research to Dr. Pourahmadian at [email protected] by April 28, 2025. Forward your abstract acceptance notification along with your submission.
  • Register for the conference, and if selected for the Elasticity student paper competition, present the paper at the student competition session during the conference.

Deadlines

  • December 1, 2024 - Abstract submission deadline.
  • March 1, 2025 - Express interest to participate in the elasticity student paper competition.
  • April 28, 2025 - Full‐length (three page) paper and abstract acceptance notification.

Prizes

  • One winner will be selected. They will receive a certificate and be named as the Elasticity student paper competition winner.

Process

  • The decision on acceptance for the Elasticity student paper competition will be informed by May 15, 2025. The top five papers will be selected for a ten minute presentation in a special session of the conference. Note that this will be a second presentation in addition to the presentation the student gives as part of the regular EMI Conference.
  • The papers and presentations will be judged by a panel of three judges selected from the Elasticity committee membership.
  • Winners will be selected based on both the quality of the paper and the oral presentation.

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