About the award
Description:	An annual award to recognize the Best Conference Paper of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE) presented in current year.
Established:	2007
Prize:	$1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors.
Funding:	This award is sponsored by Spansion Inc. with a five-year commitment (2007-2011).
Eligibility:	All papers presented in the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE) in current year.
Basis for judging:	Factors to be considered: The significance of new applications, technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, and clarity of presentation. The Committee consists of experts in the related fields and is led by the CASE Conference Award Committee Chair.
Presentation:	The awards will be announced and presented at the annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is nominated.
Nomination form:	Click to download the form

Year	Winner and reason
2009	Lindsay V. Allen, Kiah Mok, Dawn Tilbury Closed Loop Determinism for Non-Deterministic Environments: Verification for IEC 61499 Logic Controllers
2008	Peng Wang, Peter Luh, Shi-Chung Chang, Jin Sun Modeling and Optimization of Crowd Guidance for Building Emergency Evacuation
2007	Wenhui Wang, Xinyu Liu, Yu Sun Autonomous Zebrafish Embryo Injection Using a Microrobotic System
2007	Timothy Molter, Sarah McQuaide, Meng Zhang, Mark Holl, Lloyd Burgess, Mary Lidstrom, Deirdre Meldrum Algorithm Advancements for the Measurement of Single Cell Oxygen Consumption Rates

IEEE-CASE Spansion Best Conference Paper Award

Winners of this award