Sponsored by: EMI Poromechanics Committee
Purpose
- The purpose of this student paper competition is to promote poromechanics research among a larger body of student groups to facilitate student interactions and networking at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, and to help students with improving their technical writing, as well as oral presentation skills. Participation by graduate students from any relevant engineering or scientific discipline is encouraged.
Requirements
- Be a full-time graduate student and lead author of the submitted research work.
- Submit an abstract in the thematic area of poromechanics to the EMI abstract submission website by the conference deadline. Submissions to the mini-symposia that are related to poromechanics are encouraged but not required.
- Participate only in the Poromechanics Student Paper Competition. Participation in multiple competitions will automatically disqualify the student from this competition.
- Express the intent to participate in the paper competition by contacting Dr. Amin Mehrabian at [email protected] by February 17, 2025 to receive the short paper template.
- Submit a short paper of the previously submitted abstract, along with a copy of the associated abstract acceptance notification by the EMI conference, to Dr. Mehrabian at [email protected] by March 17, 2025. Short papers do not need to follow a specific structure or template as long as the following formatting instructions are adhered with: (PDF file; maximum of three letter sized pages; 12 font size; 1” margins).
- Register and, if selected, present the paper in a special session at the EMI 2025 conference
Deadlines
- Dec 01, 2024 – EMI 2025 Abstract submission.
- Feb 17, 2025 – Express the intent to participate in the poromechanics student paper competition.
- Mar 17, 2025 - Full‐length (three letter pages max) paper and abstract acceptance notification.
Prizes
- One winner and two runner-ups will be selected. They will receive a certificate and will be named as the Poromechanics student paper competition winners.
Process
- The decision on acceptance for the Poromechanics student paper competition will be announced by May 05, 2025.
- The top five papers will be selected for a ten-minute presentation, followed by a 5-minute Q&A in a special session of the conference. Note that this will be a second presentation, in addition to the presentation the students (or their co-authors) may give as part of the regular EMI Conference sessions.
- The papers and presentations will be judged by a panel of three judges selected by the organizing members of the poromechanics committee.
- Winners will be selected based on both the paper quality (originality, intellectual merit, clarity and accuracy, as well as the writing style) and the oral presentation quality (command of the technical content, delivery and fluency, and presentation slides quality).
- Student finalists will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a by invitation- only special collection on Journal of Engineering Mechanics (Example from previous years).
Contact:
- Amin Mehrabian, Associate Professor, Penn State University +1 (814) 865-6892, [email protected]
