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Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award

USAEE/IAEE student members may compete for a Student Paper Award at the yearly USAEE/IAEE North American Conference. The author of the best paper receives the Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award and a $1,000 (USD) prize. To view criteria for the Student Paper Awards and conference student scholarship information in general, please visit http://www.usaee.org/USAEE2008/paperawards.html

Awarded Papers

27th USAEE/IAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, HOUSTON, TX, 2007:
The Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award: International Environmental Agreements: Is Global Cooperation Possible? - Katherine V. Calvin

Other students who received USAEE Paper Awards with a stipend of $500 and complimentary conference registration are:

  • Merrill Jones Barradale, University of California, Berkeley
  • Elaine Frey, George Washington University
  • Derek Lemoine, University of California, Berkeley
  • Kathleen Spees, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Fan Zhang, Harvard University

26th USAEE/IAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, ANN ARBOR, MI, 2006:
The Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award: A Stochastic Programming Framework for the Valuation of Electricity Storage - Pedram Mokrian & Moff Stephen

Other students who received USAEE Paper Awards with a stipend of $500 are:

  • Adam Brandt, University of California, Berkeley
  • Diana Schwyzer, University of California, Berkeley
  • Svetlana Ikonnikova, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • Daniel Dempsey, New York University
  • Greg Nemet, University of California, Berkeley
  • Olusegun Oladunjoye, University of Guelph
  • Sophia Ruester, Dresden University of Technology

25th IAEE/USAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, DENVER, 2005:
Does Uncertainty Matter? A Competing Risks Analysis of Investment in Petroleum Refining Industry - Xiaoyi Mu - 1st
Optimal Environmental Policies in a Heterogeneous Product Market Under Resesarch and Development Competition and Cooperation - Olusegun Oladunjoye - 2nd
Econometric Study On Long-term Energy Strategy of Malaysia to the year 2030 - focusing on the impacts of renewable energy-based power generation - Peck Yean Gan - 3rd
Impact Mitigation for Emergency Events: Their Effects on Day-ahead and Real Time Market Locational Based Marginal Pricing at the New York ISO - Shoko Nakano - 4th

24th USAEE/IAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON DC, 2004:
Spatial Pattern in Modeling Electricity Prices: Evidence from the PJM Market - Julia Popova

23rd USAEE/IAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, MEXICO CITY, 2003:
Efficient Tariffs for Cost Revelation in a Price and Quantity Constrained Electric Power Market - Serhiy Kotsan