Sponsored by: EMI Objective Resilience Committee (ORC)
Purpose
The Objective Resilience committee is hosting its seventh annual student competition for graduate students to present their research findings within the broad field of structure, infrastructure, and community resilience. The competition spans different types of structures and infrastructure systems under suite of different single or multiple hazards and involves advanced techniques to model the mechanical characteristics of the built environment under hazards, AI-enabled techniques to assess resilience of large-scale structures and infrastructure systems, and optimization techniques to improve resilience of infrastructure and communities.
Requirements
- The lead author should be a graduate student and should be present/registered at the 2025 EMI conference at the University of California, Irvine.
- The submission must include only one student as the first co-author, along with the student's advisor or co-advisors. The work should primarily be the student's own, without assistance from other graduate or post-doctoral students.
- The paper needs to be accepted to a regular session (or mini symposium).
- The graduate student should present the submission at the ORC student competition session (date to be announced).
Process
Submit an abstract in the thematic area of objective resilience through the conference paper management system by the stated conference deadline.
- Forward the abstract acceptance notification and express interest in the competition to Prof. Alice Alipour [email protected] within one week of the abstract acceptance notice, January 1, 2025 (https://www.emi-conference.org/).
- Submit an eight-page full paper to Prof. Alice Alipour [email protected] by April 1, 2025. Please use the following format for the paper.
- A panel of expert judges will review the papers for overall quality and relevancy to the topic of competition. Selected papers will be invited to present at the EMI Conference at the University of California, Irvine .
- A statement of contribution should be included at the end of paper, highlighting that most of the research and writing was conducted by the graduate student, with guidance and support from the advising faculty.
- Register for EMI conference and present at the student competition session.
- Following the special session presentation, a panel of expert judges will choose the top three winning papers. Criteria will be based on the overall quality and relevancy of the written paper to the committee’s work (50 pts.), presentation quality (30 pts.), and following Q/A period with judges (20 pts.)
Prizes
- The committee will award up to three cash prizes to the top presentations/publications. Only student authors are eligible for monetary prizes.
- Awards will be presented to the competition winners during an award ceremony specific to student competitions.
- Student finalists will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a by-invitation-only special collection in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (Example from previous years).
Contact
- Email your questions and concerns to ORC Chair Prof. Alice Alipour [email protected]