The International Society for Concrete Pavements is announcing a Student Poster Board Competition at the 10th International Conference for Concrete Pavements held July 8-12, 2012 in Québec City, Québec, Canada. The best student poster presentation at conference session will be awarded the B.F. McCullough Award.

Graduate and undergraduate college students are highly encouraged to submit a poster on their research progress in areas such as innovative technologies in concrete pavement design, construction, materials, maintenance, performance, evaluation, rehabilitation, asset management, and more.

Important Due Dates

April 1, 2012: Completed posters due for initial review (ejensen@ltu.edu)

April 15, 2012: Review completed, authors notified

July 8-12, 2012: Student Poster Board Judging. Student presenter must be available to facilitate questions from the three assigned judges during this time. Students are also encouraged to be present at the posters to facilitate questions from conference participants during the time slots indicated in the conference program.

Student Posterboard Registration

Students with accepted student posters will have conference registration fees waived. Details on this registration process will be distributed to students after the initial poster submission and review is completed (Target date of April 15, 2012).

NOTE: For students wishing to take advantage of the conference's early bird registration rates (available through March 31, 2012), your registration fees will be immediately refunded if your submitted poster has been accepted to the student poster competition. You will then be able to register for the conference using the student poster board registration process (registration fee waived).

General Information

The entries for the student poster board competition will undergo an initial review and a judging. The initial review, performed prior to the conference, is to provide the students with constructive feedback and suggestions on how to improve the poster. The judging will take place at the conference and will determine the recipient of the B.F. McCullough Award. To be considered for the B.F. McCullough Award an entry must go through both the review and the judging.

Each poster will be considered by a technical review panel that will evaluate the poster on a scale from 1 – 5 over each of four categories: 1) overall effectiveness, 2) technical content, 3) conclusions, and 4) visual impact and quality. Posters synthesizing current knowledge, only, will not be ranked.

Each poster board is not to exceed the size of a 36” x 48” (900 mm x 1200 mm) Tri-fold Science Display Board. The presenter is responsible for providing the poster and the poster board. Easels will be provided for displaying the posters at the 9th International Conference by ISCP.

Posters must be submitted for initial review in pdf or Microsoft Powerpoint format to Elin Jensen at the address below or via E-mail to Jensen@ltu.edu. If the document exceeds 5 MB the entry must be submitted on a CD and send to the address listed below. Receipt of the poster will be acknowledged by E-mail.

A student presenter listed on the poster as an author must be present during judging to be considered for the B.F. McCullough Award. Judging will also consider the students’ abilities to positively influence the audience and facilitate questions. Note that the judges at the conference will not participate in the initial technical review.

Some local ACPA chapters and affiliates have expressed a willingness to defray travel costs for participatingU.S.-based students. Potential competitors should contact their local ACPA chapter or affiliate (or other industry groups) to determine whether they are participating in the program or not.

Example Posters and Template

Example posters as well as a blank template (in Microsoft PowerPoint) can be downloaded to aid in the student poster presentation preparation.

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Contact Information

If you have any further questions please contact:

Elin Jensen, Ph.D.

Civil Engineering Department

Lawrence Technological University

21000 West Ten Mile Road

Southfield, MI, 48075 USA

E-mail: ejensen@ltu.edu

Phone: 248 204 2067

Fax: 248 204 2568

International Society for Concrete Pavements, Inc.