Awards/Honors

The Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA) will be conferred every four years at the ACTS Conferences, and the Young Scientist Awards (YSA) may be presented once a year or two at appropriate topical seminars sponsored by the Union.
 
The Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering (AUTSE) Outstanding Achievement Award is awarded to one (or two) scientists every four years for their life-time achievements in the field of thermal sciences and thermal engineering. The AUTSE Young Scientist Award is awarded to two or three scientists who are younger than thirty-five years old at the time of the Award presentation and who are active in the field of thermal sciences and thermal engineering.
 
The first Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA) and Young Scientist Award (YSA) were presented at the 1st Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences (1st ACTS) held in Jeju, Korea March 26 – 30, 2017. The second OAA was presented at the 2nd Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences (2nd ACTS) held in online, October 3 – 7, 2021, whereas the second YSA was presented at the 16th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-16) held in Beijing, China in 2018, and third one was done at the 2nd ACTS in 2021. The fourth YSA was presented at the 17th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-17) held in Cape Town, South Africa in 2023.
 
Nominations are proposed by the AUTSE Awards Committee appointed by the Executive Board. Nominations for the Outstanding Achievement Award are based on their life-time achievements and impacts in the field of thermal sciences and thermal engineering. Nominations for the Young Scientist Award are based on their current research achievements and scientific level of the PhD Thesis, the originality and generality of the work, the suitability and novelty of their modelling and/or experimental method, and the importance of their results for thermal sciences. Candidates will be recommended by their national Thermal Science Associations with up to two candidates nominated from each member country of AUTSE. The Awards are presented to honor the contributions of well-established thermal scientists in Asia and to encourage outstanding young scientists in their thermal science research work so that excellent young scientists are quickly recognized in the scientific community.
 
 
1. The candidates:
Outstanding Achievement Award candidates should be working in the field of thermal sciences and thermal engineering, should have outstanding contributions that advance the thermal science field or industrial applications, and should be contributing to technical exchanges in the heat transfer community. Each country is allowed to nominate one candidate each time the Award is presented.
Young Scientist Award candidates must have obtained their Ph.D. within one of the AUTSE countries in the thermal sciences and heat transfer fields. They should be younger than 35 years old at the date of the prize. Each Asian country is allowed to nominate a maximum of two candidates each time the Award is presented.
 

2. Nomination process:
The national representatives of the AUTSE Committee will organize a national committee in conjunction with their national professional bodies (if they exist) composed of several senior scientists working in various areas of the thermal sciences and heat transfer fields. This committee disseminates information about the prize and selects the national nominee(s). Nominations should be sent to their respective national committees. Information on the national committees for the awards is available from the AUTSE Secretary General.
 

3. Submission of documents:
Each nomination should contain:

• Representative papers published in English in international journals or in conference proceedings with reviews of the contributions made by these papers that illustrate the nominee’s main research contributions. All these papers must be authored by the candidate with the main contribution to this research coming from the candidate.
• Curriculum vitae
• Full list of publications

Young Scientist Award nominations should also include the candidate’s Ph.D. thesis that has been defended within the last five years before the date of the award. If not in English, the thesis should have an English summary of at least five pages. Young Scientist Award nominations can also include assessments of the thesis if available and a list of awards received by the candidate such as cum laude.
 

4. Prize Committee:
The final prize committee will be formed once every four years in the Executive Board meeting to select the award recipients. The final awardees recommended by the prize committee will then be approved by the Executive Board committee of AUTSE.
 

5. The assessment criteria:
The following criteria will be taken into account for the assessment:

• Scientific level
• Originality and generality of the work
• Importance of the results for thermal sciences and heat transfer
• Novelty of the modelling and/or of the experimental methods for thermal sciences and heat transfer
• Contribution to the heat transfer community and industry (for Outstanding Achievement Award)

The nomination of Fellow for Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering (AUTSE) is announced every two years.
 
 
1. The candidates:
Candidates for Fellow should have demonstrated significant individual responsibility and should have sustained achievements and professionalism in the field of thermal sciences and engineering. In principle, candidates should not be over 65 years of age, and have no less than ten (10) years of active practice.
 

2. Nomination process:
A nomination for AUTSE Fellow must be initiated by an AUTSE Fellow who has intimate knowledge of the nominee’s background. The nominator is solely responsible for preparing all the documents. The deadline for the submission of the complete nomination is announced every two years. Fellow Review Committee will evaluate the nominations before the awarding ceremony.
 

3. Submission of documents:
Each nomination should contain:

• Letter of nomination
• Resume/CV or professional record
• Major publications/paper summary
• Three (3) supporting letters from the Fellows

4. The assessment criteria:
The following criteria will be considered for the assessment:

• Scientific level
• Originality and generality of the work
• Significance of the results for thermal sciences and heat transfer
• Novelty of the modeling and/or of the experimental methods for thermal sciences and heat transfer
• Contribution to the thermal science and engineering community and industry
• Involvement with AUTSE activities

5. Fellow Recognition:
Those nominees promoted to Fellow by the Fellow Review Committee will be presented with a Fellow certificate.
 

★ Founding Fellow
The Fellow at the commencement of AUTSE is called “Founding Fellow”, which can be nominated by each society. Contemplating lifetime achievement and contribution to AUTSE, Founding Fellows are elected.