Awards
International Committee on Composite Materials
ICCM Invites Nominations for the following awards
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The Tsai award
The Tsai award will be given for the best student paper presented at ICCM25. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible, provided that they are enrolled at a university at the time of submitting the paper and are the first author and presenter of the paper.
Two regional finalists will be selected from each of the three ICCM world regions* and invited to present their papers in a special session named “Tsai Best Student Paper” in Singapore. The winner will receive a free ticket for the ICCM25 banquet where they be presented with a certificate in recognition of the award and a USD500 money prize. The selection will be based on both the quality of the paper and the oral presentation. Those submissions that are not selected to be presented at the Tsai Best Student Paper session will be treated as a regular paper submitted to the conference.
Application procedure
Those students whose abstracts have been accepted for a full oral presentation will be eligible to apply for the Tsai Award. To apply, the students will be required to upload a full paper on the ICCM25 website and select that they would like to be considered for the award. They will then be further instructed to upload a form filled by their primary supervisor confirming their student status on the paper submission date. Students will also have to upload a statement describing the contributions of each author of the paper.
Selection Guidelines
The technical merit of the work is the most important evaluation criteria. The papers will be judged on the clarity and conciseness of the statement of the objectives of the work, and the appropriateness of the approaches, procedures, and methodologies for achieving these objectives.
A summary of important conclusions should be included, and these should be substantiated. The significance of the findings, how they contribute to the state of the art, and how they relate to the work of other investigators should be easily determined from the writing.
Effective use of tables and figures, and ease of understanding them, including units, dimensions, legends, labels, symbol and line types and colours, etc., will be considered.
Presentation quality including clarity, organization, audio-visual quality, and timing will be assessed on the day of the “Tsai Best Student Paper” special session at ICCM25.
* Region 1 (Europe and Africa)
Region 2 (Asia and Australasia)
Region 3 (The Americas)
The Kelly Prize
ICCM is pleased to welcome nominations for the Anthony Kelly Prize awarded in recognition of outstanding contribution to the science, engineering, or technical innovation with influence on industrial practice, for any type of composites. The ICCM Kelly Prize will be presented during the 25th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM‐25), to be held in Singapore, 2027.
ICCM encourages nominations from all sections of the composites community, including government, industry and academia. Involvement in ICCM, which can be demonstrated by having attended at least one previous ICCM conference, is required. Preference will be given to candidates at an early stage of their professional career, normally less than 15 years of working in the fields of composites, at the deadline date for the prize nomination.
A panel selected by the members of the ICCM Executive Council will assess the nominations and identify the candidate whose work has made the most significant academic or industrial impact. The chosen recipient will have the honor of delivering the “Kelly” lecture during the ICCM‐25 conference. ICCM will cover the conference registration cost, and the recipient will receive a free ticket for the ICCM25 banquet where they will be presented with a certificate in recognition of the award.
Nominations should take the form of:
- two recommendation letters (one from an ICCM member* and one from an individual familiar with the work of the candidate) accompanied by the CV of the nominee;
- a (not more than) two-page summary of their work and main career achievements.
Candidates are encouraged to reference up to five significant and relevant publications, patents and/or other publicly available information on their work in their two-page submission.
All documents are to be submitted to the relevant regional vice president by no later than January 31st, 2027 by e‐mail (Subject: ICCM Kelly Prize Nomination):
- Region 1 (Europe and Africa): Prof. Silvestre Pinho, pinho@imperial.ac.uk
- Region 2 (Asia and Australasia): Prof. Jinsong Leng, lengjs@hit.edu.cn
- Region 3: (North and South Americas) Prof. Martine Dubé, dube@etsmtl.ca
*An ICCM member is an individual from a member nation who has participated as a fully registered delegate at an ICCM Conference. A delegate not from a member nation can also become an ICCM member following the procedure explained at https://iccm-central.org/constitution.
The Paul Lagace Award
ICCM is pleased to welcome nominations for the Paul Lagace Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to education and/or knowledge transfer in the field of composite materials. The Paul Lagace Award will be presented during the 25th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM‐25), to be held in Singapore, 2027.
ICCM encourages nominations from all sections of the composites community, including government, industry and academia. Involvement in ICCM, which can be demonstrated by having attended at least one previous ICCM conference, is required.
A panel selected by the members of the ICCM Executive Council will assess the nominations and identify the candidate whose contribution to education and/or knowledge transfer has made the most significant impact. The chosen recipient will have the honor of delivering the “Lagace” lecture during the ICCM‐25 conference. ICCM will cover the conference registration costs, and the recipient will receive a free ticket for the ICCM25 banquet where they will be presented with a certificate in recognition of the award.
Nominations should take the form of:
- two recommendation letters (one from an ICCM member* and one from an individual familiar with the work of the candidate) accompanied by the CV of the nominee.
- a (not more than) two-page summary of candidate’s contribution to education and/or knowledge transfer in the field of composites.
Candidates are encouraged to reference up to five significant and relevant education initiatives and/or knowledge transfer activities in their two-page submission.
All documents are to be submitted to the relevant regional vice president by no later than January 31, 2027, by e‐mail (Subject: ICCM Paul Lagace Award Nomination):
- Region 1 (Europe and Africa): Prof. Silvestre Pinho, pinho@imperial.ac.uk
- Region 2 (Asia and Australasia): Prof. Jinsong Leng, lengjs@hit.edu.cn
- Region 3 (North and South Americas): Prof. Martine Dubé, dube@etsmtl.ca
*An ICCM member is an individual from a member nation who has participated as a fully registered delegate at an ICCM Conference. A delegate not from a member nation can also become an ICCM member following the procedure explained at https://iccm-central.org/constitution.