The ISA Water/Wastewater Division is pleased to announce the award winners for best paper, best presentation and best poster from last year’s 2014 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium.
At our 2015 symposium, the award winner will be publicly acknowledged and presented with award plaques. Please congratulate our 2014 symposium award winners!
The winners are:
Best Paper
- FIRST PLACE
o Using Cellular Machine-to-Machine Data Plans for Collection System SCADA: Is a Small Plan Big Enough?
Daniel Cote, P.E., and Tim Baldwin, P.E., McKim & Creed, Inc. – view abstract
- SECOND PLACE
o Which cybersecurity standard is most relevant for a water utility?
Don Dickinson, Phoenix Contact – view abstract
- THIRD PLACE
o Human Factors For Project Managers
David Lee, CEng, FIChemE, User Centered Design Services Inc. – view abstract
- HONORABLE MENTION
o Managing Complexity – Minimizing Risk: Balancing system growth against destabilizing risk
Blair Sooley, MBA, P. Eng., Trihedral Engineering – view abstract
Best Presentation
- FIRST PLACE
o Virtualizing SCADA – Improving control system reliability with proven IT technology
Jason Hamlin, City of Lynchburg Regional Wastewater Plant and Carter Farley, P.E., Instrulogic Corporation – view abstract
- SECOND PLACE
o Municipality Moves SCADA System from Desktop Computers to Thin Clients
Bosko Bob Loncar, The Regional Municipality of Halton – view abstract
- THIRD PLACE
o DNP3 Implementation – The Do’s and Don’ts
Jeff Miller, P.E., ENV SP, and Mike Drescher, Schneider Electric – view abstract
- HONORABLE MENTION
o Advanced Alarm Management Solutions
Thomas Maczuzak, MBA and Brian Heimbigner, BSChE, MBA, ABB Inc. – view abstract
Best Poster:
- FIRST PLACE:
o Migrating from Single Monitor to Dual Monitor SCADA Workstations
Juliana Oyeniyi, CDM Smith – view abstract