MEMBER BENEFITS These young minds get top tech paper honors The focus of Koutsakis's work as Research Assistant at the Engine Research Center (ERC) of University of Wisconsin-Madison is the in-cylinder multilayer wall heat transfer in internal combustion engines. How satisfying is it for you to have been named winner of SAE's tech paper competition? It is very important to see your work being recognized. Definitely a great honor for me to win an SAE technical paper award! George Koutsakis many drivers (~30%) were able to anticipate and begin responding to the hazard before it had even entered their path. This was particularly true if the hazard provided a cue or precursor to its future behaviour, for example, if it was already moving when the participant driver noticed it for the first time. We hope this finding encourages other researchers to report their "negative" response times rather than remove them in the data cleaning process. This will improve response time estimates for hazards that are commonly anticipated, but require an emergency response to avoid a collision. George Koutsakis 2020-01-0160 - "An Analytical Approach for Calculating Instantaneous Multilayer-Coated Wall Surface Temperature in an Engine" 34 May 2020 What is the paper's most important finding or conclusion? The problem of unsteady heat transfer between the working gases and the walls of the reciprocating internal-combustion engine is a very complex problem. I find it very interesting because it is a multi-disciplinary problem in the sense that it combines different fields of engineering -i.e.. heat transfer, material science, manufacturing processes, and fundamentals of internalcombustion engines. This work provides a methodology to calculate long-duration transient wall temperatures of combustion surfaces very simply with high accuracy and low computational cost. It is an important finding because it enables new research paths to evaluate use of thermal insulation coatings to increase engine efficiency by maintaining low emission pollutants. UPDATEhttps://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2020-01-0160/