Forum 86 Research Excellence Award 2020: FORUM 86 Research Excellence Award 2020 |
Website | http://forum86.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=excellenceaward2020 |
Submission deadline | June 30, 2020 |
About FORUM 86
FORUM 86 is a non-profit and non-political organization. Its members are those individuals who were enrolled as undergraduate students at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in the 1986-87 sessions. The organization is engaged in a wide spectrum of activities such as (but not limited to): providing cultural, intellectual, social, spiritual and charitable welfare to the members of Forum 86, providing welfare to BUET and the society, providing charity to the needy people, encouraging research and innovation, facilitating technology transfer, and providing academic and professional assistance to BUET alumni and students. Since inception in 1989, FORUM 86 has been promoting exchange of professional knowledge with a wide range of groups, organizations and individuals by arranging seminars, symposiums, etc. FORUM 86 has decided to promote research activities within BUET through a bi-annual “Research Excellence Award” to BUET faculty members and students.
Purpose
FORUM 86 believes that its Research Excellence Award will be able to highlight the research achievements (e.g., publishing papers in quality journals/peer reviewed highly selective conferences, supervising Masters/PhD students, engaging in research-related professional activities, etc.) of faculty members of BUET and at the same time raise the profile of the research teams or individuals who would be encouraged to serve the society through scholarly activities as well as could be considered for future external recognition(s).
Submission Guidelines
Eligibility
Faculty members in any discipline from BUET can apply for this award (excluding FORUM 86 members). Two types of awards will be given: (a) Early career research award, and (b) Senior faculty research award.
To be eligible for the early career research award, a BUET faculty member (excluding FORUM 86 members) should be within 10 years of obtaining PhD degree at the time of application.
For senior faculty research award, any BUET faculty member (excluding FORUM 86 members) who received PhD degree more than 10 years ago will be considered.
Evaluation Criteria
The “FORUM 86 Research Excellence Award” will recognize research achievements of the eligible BUET faculty members. The research under consideration for the award should have demonstrated considerable positive impact on the society and also preferably have high impact at the international level. While the published works of the last two years would be given preference, other forms of scholarly outputs would be considered too. Research Excellence Awards will recognize research achievements of faculty members. Research excellence is recognized as scholarly output that made an impact within the nominee’s discipline. This will include papers/patents/books published in the last two years, any research-related knowledge mobilization, research-derived innovation, training of highly qualified personnel (HQP) (e.g. supervising Masters/PhD students), etc. Generally, following major points will be considered for evaluation for the award (not limited to though):
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- Last two years published works;
- Quality of the research;
- Research Impact to benefit the society;
- Contribution to training of highly qualified personnel (HQP) of Bangladesh ;
- Benefit to society;
- Research-related knowledge dissemination;
- Innovation;
- External research funding from National/International Organizations
- International research collaboration; and
- Industry-academia collaboration.
Award
Each Research Excellence Award recipient will receive an award certificate as well as a prize money of BDT 100,000 (Taka One Hundred thousand). Recipients will be recognized at the annual Research Excellence Award program to be organized by FORUM 86.
There will be 5 awards for early carrier researchers and 3 awards for senior faculty researchers from all Engineering and Architecture disciplines of BUET. Therefore, a total of 8 awards will be given bi-annually (from the date of selection).
Application Process
The concerned BUET faculty member applying for the “FORUM 86 Research Excellence Award” needs to submit the following documents to the FORUM 86 Secretariat within the announced deadline:
- A cover letter;
- Statements of Researcher;
- Copies of documents supporting the case for the application (materials that the candidate wishes to use as evidence of excellence in research and other scholarly activities);
- Applicant’s CV (highlighting past and current scholarly activities).
Selection Process
An external international committee, consisting of outstanding researchers will review the applications and provide recommendations to the FORUM 86 Executive Committee who will make the final selection.
List of Topics
- Information Technology
- Blue Economy and Environment
- Renewable Energy
- National Problems
- Smart City and Modern Architecture
Committees
Program Committee
- Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Anam, University of Asia Pacific, Bangladesh
- Prof. Dr. Mohammad Zulkernine, Queens University, Canada
- Prof. Dr. Latifur Rahman Khan, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
- Prof. Dr. Mohammad Nasir Uddin, Lakehead University, Canada
- Dr. Mamdud Hossain, Robert Gordon University, UK
- Prof. Dr. Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University, USA
- Prof. Dr. Javed Bari, North South University, Bangladesh
Organizing committee
- Prof. Dr. Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, BUET
- Engr. Forkan Bin Quasem, Managing Director, Spectrum Engineering Consortium
- Prof. Dr. AKM Masud, BUET
- Prof. Dr. Abdullahil Azeem, BUET
- Prof. Dr. Md. Zahurul Haq, BUET
- Arch. Tarique Hasan, Managing Director, THAL
- Engr. Sultan Ahmed, Managing Director, Techno Fiber Ltd
Publication
Forum 86 Research Excellence Award 2020 results will be published in the Forum 86 website, National Dailys
Award Venue
Recipients will be recognized at the annual Research Excellence Award program to be organized by FORUM 86
Contact
FORUM 86 Secretariat, BUET, Dhaka
Web: forum86.org
E-mail: rafiqis@name.buet.ac.bd
Mobile: +8801817571911
Sponsors and Partners
- Spectrum Engineering Consortium Ltd
- Architect Tarique Hasan and Associates
- Techno Fiber Ltd
- Ananda Group
- Confidence Group
- Max Group