Jennifer Kensler, SPES Awards Chair

The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences honored the following presenters with the Outstanding Presentation Award at JSM 2017 in Baltimore:

First Place, Outstanding Presentation Award

Jin Tao, University of Florida, for “A Statistical Framework for Power Theft Detection in Smart Grid Networks”

Runner-Up, Outstanding Presentation Award

Martin Bezener, Stat-Ease, Inc., for “Strategies for Mixture-Design Space Augmentation”

Honorable Mentions

Jiayu Peng, Penn State University, for “Design of Order-of-Addition Experiments Under the Pairwise-Order Framework”

Jonathan Stallings, North Carolina State University, for “Designing for What’s order ativan online Important: A Comparison of Bayesian and General Weighted Optimality Criteria”

The outstanding presentation awards encourage excellence in presentation and have helped raise the SPES contributed sessions to a higher level. All awards are based on audience evaluations of each speaker. Winners receive a certificate and a cash award. The awards for the 2017 JSM best presentations will be presented at the SPES mixer during the 2018 meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.