Papers by WPI Faculty Win Top Honors

Kristen L. Billiar, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received the Best Paper Award at the 2006 New England American Society for Engineering Education Conference, held on the WPI campus, for "Streaming Video Tutorials for Complex Laboratory Techniques: Lessons Learned in Sophomore and Junior Biomechanics Courses."

Mark L. Claypool, associate professor of computer science, with Kajal Claypool and Feissal Damaa (University of Massachusetts Lowell), received the Best Paper Award at the ACM/SPIE (Association for Computing Machinery/ International Society for Optical Engineer-ing) Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN) Conference, San Jose, Calif., in January 2006 for "The Effects of Frame Rate and Resolution on Users Playing First Person Shooter Games." Claypool also won the Best Paper Award at the 4th ACM Network and System Support for Games (NetGames) in October 2005 for "On the 802.11 Turbulence of Nintendo DS and Sony PSP Hand-held Network Games."

Brian A. Dewhirst (graduate student, materials engineering), John L. Jorstad (JLJ Technologies; director at large, WPI Advanced Casting Research Center), and Diran Apelian received the Best Paper Award at the 2005 AFS/NADCA (American Foundry Society/North American Die Casting Association) Metalcasting Congress for "Effect of Artificial Aging on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Semi-Solid Processed A356 Castings."

Michael B. Elmes, professor of management (shown below), and Steven S. Taylor, assistant professor of management, received the Best Paper Award in the Organization and Management Theory Division at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in August 2005 for "From Chaos to Tempered Radicalism: The Form and Content of Organizational Resistance."

Makhlouf M. Makhlouf, Sumanth Shankar, visiting professor in WPI’s Metal Processing Institute, and Yancy Riddle, vice president of technology, UCT Coatings (formerly research scientist, MPI), received the Best Paper Award from the Aluminum Division at the American Foundry Society’s CastExpo ’06 for "Mechanisms of Formation and Chemical Modification of the Morphology of the Eutectic Phases in Hypoeutectic Aluminum-Silicon Alloys."

John A. McNeill, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Michael Coln and Brian Larivee of Analog Devices, received the Lewis Winner Award at the 2006 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the largest international conference held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for their 2005 ISSCC paper, "A Split-ADC Architecture for Deterministic Digital Background Calibration of a 16b 1 MS/s ADC."

John Sanbonmatsu, assistant professor of philosophy, received a Jacobsen Research Award at the Sixth Annual Conference of the International Society for Universal Dialogue, held in Helsinki in 2005, for his paper "Metahumanism: The Subject of Freedom at the End of History."