ICME Prize

The AIAA ICME Working Group with the support of Composite Design and Manufacturing HUB (cdmHUB), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Rolls-Royce Corporation funding have established an ICME prize for the best aerospace-focused ICME project.

This bi-annual award (the next prize to be presented at AIAA SciTech 2026) will not only include recognition at an AIAA SciTech forum itself, but will also provide a $1,500.00 team award. Furthermore, each winning project and project team will be given special consideration for internship or follow-on effort to further realize the benefit of the proposed project with one or more of the sponsoring organizations: cdmHUB, NASA, and/or Rolls-Royce.

Request for Proposal (RFP)

Next ICME Prize (ICME PRIZE 2026) Time Schedule

Past Award Recipients

2022

Award: 2022 ICME Prize
AIAA Citation: “ICME Optimization of Advanced Composite Components of the Aurora D8 Aircraft”
Michael N. Olaya, Hashim Al Mahmud, Evgenia Plaka, Kalima Bukenya, Sagar Patil, Sagar Shah, Prathamesh Desphande, Manish Nagaraj, Aaron Krieg, Evan J. Pineda, Brett A. Bednarcyk, Richard Li, Jeffrey Chambers, Stephen Jones, Craig Collier, Gregory M. Odegard, Marianna Maiaru

2020

Award: 2020 ICME Prize
AIAA Citation: “Integrated Computational Modeling for Efficient Material and Process Design for Composite Aerospace Structures”
Dr. Anthony M. Waas, Dr. Royan J. Dmvello, Dr. Marianna Maiaru, Robert W. Koon, Dr. Thomas Sutter, Dr. Folusho Oyerokun, Tsukasa Harrington, Dr. Anoush Poursartip
GE Global Research

2018

Award: 2018 ICME Prize
AIAA Citation: “Modeling-driven damage tolerant design of graphene nanoplatet/carbon fiber/epoxy hybrid composite panels for full-scale aerospace structures”
Julie M. Tomasi, William A. Pisani, Sorayot Chinkanjanarot, Aaron S. Krieg, Julia A. King, Ibrahim Miskioglu, Gregory M. Odegard
Michigan Technological University

Evan J. Pineda, Brett A. Bednarcyk, Sandi G. Miller
NASA Glenn Research Center