Selection Process

The selection of award winners was carried out with extreme fairness and strictness.

Two professors were selected as judges from each of the five faculties of Mie University before the event started. There were two judges in each of the five themes, and, therefore, there were ten judges in total. Every judge is a trustworthy expert with a wide range of knowledge and experience on each of the five themes of this year's Tri-U IJSS: Population, Energy, Food, Environment, and Communication. Nobody knew who the judges were since they had their identities masked.

Before the session began, the chairperson of Steering Committee explained to all the judges the procedure how they should evaluate presentations and decide award winners. Giving them evaluation sheets, she put an emphasis on the following five points to be evaluated: relevance of the presentation's topic to the theme the presenter chose, originality, logic, intelligible explanation, and performance.

The judges read carefully all of the papers in the theme which they were entrusted with, listened to all the presentations, and examined poster presentations at poster sessions. After all oral sessions and poster sessions finished, the two judges discussed and worked on deciding the best presenter in the theme which they were in charge of. Finally all judges gathered to reach a final decision of award winners in the five themes.

Award Winners

The follwing six students -- there were two winners in the field of Energy -- have got awards.

In order to honor the winners and show the standard of paper in this academic event, Steering Committee has decided to publish winners' papers and posters on this website with winners' permissions.

Click the paper title, and you can read the award winner's paper. You can also see the poster by clicking "poster presentation".