2006 Karthik Ramaratnam, Clemson University
2005 Sophie Cozien-Cazuc, University of Nottingham
2004 Dipayan Das, Technical University of Liberec
2003 Rita Salvado, Universidade Beira Interior, Portugal
2002 Zeming Gou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2001 D.W. Jung, North Carolina State University
2000 Ravi Sura, Georgia Institute of Technology
1999 Sujatha Narayan, Georgia Tech
1998 Jooyong Kim, North Carolina State University
1997 Prameela Susarla, Georgia Tech
1996 Shalini Thadani, Georgia Tech
1995 Rashi Akki, Georgia Tech
1994 Ravi Ramanathan, University of Maryland
1993 Rangarajan Srinivasan, Georgia Tech
1992 Zong-Fu Li, Cornell University
1991 Bugao Xu, University of Maryland, and Weiying Tao, Louisiana State University
1990 Mary Toney, Cornell University; Anif Saraf, Georgia Tech
1989 Bruce Wade, Georgia Tech
1988 Douglas Hirt, TRI/Princeton University
1987 Prashant Desai, Georgia Tech
1986 K.S. Seo, North Carolina State University
1985 Peter Hsu, MIT

* Students compete each fall for this award. They must submit a written paper which is judged for technical content and style. Three contestants are chosen to present their paper as an oral presentation at the Fall meeting. The winner of this presentation is selected as the awardee for that year.