Student Travel Award Application Process

We are happy to announce this year's ENRE Student Travel Award Competition. This 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, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section. Award finalists will present their submitted papers in the ENRE award session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The prize is awarded at the ENRE business meeting at the INFORMS Annual meeting and is accompanied by a certificate and a $300 honorarium.

All students conducting research in or related to energy, mining, sustainability, environmental, or natural resource issues (including theory development, applications, optimization, econometrics, and 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, single-column, and in 12-point font. Students do not need to be ENRE members to be eligible for the competition, however membership is encouraged.

Eligibility requirements for students applying to this year's competition are that the:

(1) student must not have completed his or her Ph.D. prior to May 1, 2014;
(2) student must be presenting a talk at the 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia, PA (this is not required to be in an ENRE-sponsored session, but doing so is encouraged); and
(3) student must not have won a previous ENRE Student Travel Award competition.

Application Process:
To be considered for this year's competition, please submit an electronic version of the paper in PDF format via e-mail to [email protected] by June 30, 2015.

2015 Committee Chair

Sauleh Siddiqui
Assistant Professor
Departments of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]

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