ENRE

Call For Nomination 2011 ENRE Student Travel Award

The award is given annually to the best paper dealing with energy, environmental or natural resource issues by a student author who is presenting at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, as judged by a panel of the Energy and Natural Resources and the Environment Section. The award is accompanied by a certificate and a $300 honorarium.

Application Process

Requirements of eligibility for students applying to this year's competition are:

  1. student who did not complete their Ph.D. prior to May 1, 2010 and
  2. student will be presenting a talk at the 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting held in Charlotte, NC.

If you wish to submit an abstract for this year's meeting, please contact Marc McDill at mem14@psu.edu for papers related to forestry, Ramteen Sioshansi at sioshansi.1@osu.edu for papers related to energy, Alexandra Newman at anewman@mines.edu for papers related to mining, or Hayri Önal at h-onal@illinois.edu for papers related to the environment and sustainability.

All students conducting research in or related to energy, mining, sustainability, environmental or natural resource issues (including theory development, applications, optimization, econometrics, simulation) are encouraged to submit a paper. The work must be predominately that of the student, although faculty members or other mentors can be co-authors if appropriate. The paper should be 30 pages or less (double-spaced and 12-point font) and in the standard format of the INFORMS’ journals Management Science or Operations Research. Students do not need to be ENRE members to be eligible for the competition, however membership is encouraged.

To be considered for this year's competition, please submit an electronic version in MS Word or PDF format via e-mail to either of the Prize Co-Chairs by July 1, 2011. The prize is awarded at the ENRE business meeting at the INFORMS National Meeting.

2011 Committee Co-Chairs:

Enzo E. Sauma

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Ave. Vicuna Mackenna 4860
Macul, Santiago, Chile
Email: esauma@ing.puc.cl

Stephanie Snyder

USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station
1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108 USA
Email: stephaniesnyder@fs.fed.us

Please encourage your students and/or qualified research associates to apply.

Key Contacts

Juan Pablo Vielma, Chair,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Industrial Engineering
1043 Benedum Hal
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Phone: (412) 624-9839
Fax: (412) 624-9831

Erin Baker, Chair-Elect,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
220 ELAB
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-22
Phone: (413) 545-0670
Fax: (413) 545-1027

Vishnuteja Nanduri, Secretary/Treasurer
Assistant Professor,
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
3200 N. Cramer Street, EMS 1045,
Milwaukee, WI, 53211
Ph:414-229-4638
email: vnanduri@uwm.edu