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The PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize

Panel of judges

Submissions will be judged by the panel of three leading academics in the field of Process Systems Engineering:

Prof. Stratos Pistikopoulos (Chair)

Prof. Stratos Pistikopoulos

Stratos Pistikopoulos is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London and the Director of its Centre for Process Systems Engineering (CPSE).

Prof. Rafiqul Gani

Prof. Rafiqul Gani

Rafiqul Gani is Professor in Systems Design at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, co-editor of Computers and Chemical Engineering and Member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers.

Asst. Prof. Michael Georgiadis

Asst. Prof. Michael Georgiadis

Michael Georgiadis is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Informatics at University of Western Macedonia, Greece and Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London.

Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) is the provider of the gPROMS Advanced Process Modelling environment and is a pioneer in the emerging technology of Model-Based Innovation.

gPROMS is widely used in academic research, particularly in areas of novel technology, to provide quantification to support research results through the application of modelling.

In acknowledgement of increasing role in academic research, PSE is offering an annual €5000 prize for the best paper describing the use of gPROMS in an innovative way or in a novel area of application or technology.

The research presented in the paper should make substantial use of gPROMS modelling in order to achieve the results described.

The judges will favour novel applications or application in novel technology areas. The criteria are described further in the guidelines.

Each year the prize will be announced at a key academic or industrial conference. This year, it will be announced at the 2008 AIChE Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

In addition to awarding the prize, PSE may invite the corresponding author to present the paper at the PSE Annual Meeting and to publish a summary page on the PSE website, depending on copyright and other considerations.

If you feel that you have a paper that will qualify for the prize, you are encouraged to submit an abstract using the entry form. You do not need to provide the full paper and publication details until the deadline.

If you have any questions, please feel to ask the organising committee by emailing PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize organisers.

Terms and conditions

The following terms and conditions apply:

 

1. The offer is open to anyone, academic or otherwise who has published a technical paper in the two years prior to the deadline.
2. The deadline for submissions for the 2008 Prize is 31 May 2008.
3.

The paper must have been published between 1 June 2006 and 21 May 2008 in:

  • an internationally recognised technical journal, as recognised by the Web of Science
  • conference proceedings with an ISBN number. In this case, award will be subject to timely provision of any supplementary technical material requested by the judges. The paper as published in the proceedings should be a minimum of 5 pages in length of body (including any diagrams).
4. The work described in the paper should have made reasonably substantial use of gPROMS to achieve the results described. This should be evident within the text of the paper.
5. Papers should be submitted in pdf or MS Word format, in English, to PSE_Academic@psenterprise.com, with accompanying details submitted on the application form.
6. The papers will be judged by a panel of three judges headed by Prof. Stratos Pistikopoulos, Director of the Centre of Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London.
7. The decision of the judges will be final, and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
8. Where more than one author is listed, the authors should choose a corresponding author, who will be responsible for the submission and all subsequent correspondence.
9. The allocation of prize money between the authors is a matter for the authors to decide between themselves.
10. The prize money will be handed or transmitted to the corresponding author for the winning paper in the form of a cheque or by transfer to his or her bank.
11. The corresponding author will be responsible for distribution of the prize money between the authors.
12. The competition is not open to employees of PSE or researchers affiliated with the panel of judges.
Submit an application
using the online application form