Physical and Engineering Sciences Section News for November

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.