Photos of Award Winners from the 2018 WWAC Symposium

At our 2018 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium on Aug 7-9, 2018 in Washington DC we gave out awards from the previous year’s 2017 WWAC Symposium and service awards for the ISA Water/Wastewater Division.

The Award Winners were:

WWAC2017 Best Presentation

  1. Object Oriented SCADA –By Nate Powell, P.E., Custom Controls Unlimited, Inc. and Robert J Shull, P.E., CAP, Custom Controls Unlimited, Inc.
  2. SCADA Zero to SCADA Hero –By Jason Hamlin, City of Lynchburg, VA and Carter Farley, P.E., InstruLogic, LLC.
  3. Big Data and Business Intelligence 101 –By Travis Detherage, WaterOne
  4. I-o-T Spells Change for Our World – And Work –By Don Dickinson, Phoenix Contact

WWAC2017 Best Paper:

  1. Process Control Systems at Water Resource Recovery Facilities: Use of Process Simulation to Assist with Controller Design and Tuning –By Oliver Schraa, inCNTRL Solutions, Inc. and Matthew Gray, AECOM
  2. Industrial and Automation Communication Protocols in the Age of IIoT –By Alan Hudson, Trihedral
  3. How to Decide Whether to Upgrade or Replace Your SCADA System – By Mike Stoup, P.E., McKim & Creed, Inc. and Eric Brown, McKim & Creed, Inc.
  4. Beyond High Performance HMI – By Lucas Jordan, P.E, MR Systems and Robert Touchton, MR Systems

ISA Water/Wastewater Service Awards:

  • 2017 Service Award – Kevin Patel, PE, MBA
  • 2017 Member of the Year Award – Manoj Yegnaraman, PE

 

About GrahamNasby

Graham Nasby, P.Eng., PMP, CAP is a project manager and automation engineer who lives in Guelph Ontario Canada where he is the Water SCADA & Security Specialist for City of Guelph Water Services. Graham was general chair of the 2012 and 2013 ISA water/wastewater symposiums, and is currently the editor of the ISA Water/Wastewater newsletter. He can be contacted at www.grahamnasby.com