ITC PhD student won 2015 Fiber Society Student Paper Competition

A PhD student from our group, Wang Fei, got First Place in the Fiber Society’s 2015 Graduate Student Paper Competition (GSPC). The title of his paper was “Soft Pressure Sensors for Smart Protective Clothing against Impact Loading”. The award was presented at the banquet of the Fiber Society Fall 2015 Conference, Raleigh, USA on 29 October 2015.

Ever since 1985, the competition has been held annually in conjunction with the fall conference of the Fiber Society. The purpose of the GSPC is to recognize outstanding achievement in science, technology, and applications of fibers at the graduate student level. Students submit full-length papers that are judged on scientific rigor and technical content, and on proper technical writing style. The GSPC Committee reviews all submissions and selects three finalists to present their papers at the Fiber Society’s Fall Conference. The three finalists this year are from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Boston University, and Seoul National University. Oral presentations were judged by a panel of scientific eminence, with a winner chosen as the year’s awardee.