The following rules for judging the 1st AEWG Student Award were established by Richard Nordstrom at Tom Drouillard's request. At this years business meeting the AEWG will discuss and modify these rules for future awards.

Submissions for the student award must be 3 page extended abstracts ("the entry") should be received by the Program Chair (nordsr@pdx.edu) by May 4th, 2003.

The program Chair will remove the students name and university affiliation from each entry. The version without the author's identity will be forwarded to the judging panel.

By June 4th, the judging panel will return there findings to the program chair.

Results Requested from Judges

It is requested that each judge identify one and only one entry as the best.

It is also requested that all remaining entries be ranked and that a threshold be set for honorable mention.

To facilitate using the rankings for breaking ties, it is requested that each judge rank all papers below the best on a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is the quality of the best entry. So an entry nearly as good as the winning paper is rated a 9, and a rating of 1 would indicate an entry that is not nearly as good as the best entry.

Overall Winner

If at least two judges choose one entry as the best, it will be the winner. 

If each judges selects a different entry as best, these entries will be compared based on the best sum of the secondary ranking.

Honorable Mention

If an entry is chosen as best by one judge and it does not win the award, it will be given an honorable mention. 

If all judges agree that an entry is deserving of honorable mention, it will also be given an honorable mention.

Notification of Results

All entries from the student award will be notified of the results of the panel judgment by June 4. 

To receive the financial part of the award, the winner must attend the meeting and pay his expenses and conference entrance fee from the award amount.