Meller Recipient of 2008 Outstanding Material Handing and Facility Logistics Research Paper Award

L-R;Mike Ogle (CICMHE),Kevin Gue (Auburn),Russ Meller (Arkansas),Carter Kerk, Chair of Judging Committee

Dr. Russell D. Meller was the recipient of First Place in the 2008 Outstanding Material Handling and Facility Logistics Research Paper Award. Meller's co-author on the award-winning paper was Kevin Gue from Auburn University. This award is given every other year to recognize the best research papers appearing in the prior two years. Below is a list of this year's award recipients:

First Place
Gue and Meller
Improving the Unit-Load Warehouse
The paper was published in Progress in Material Handling Research: 2006

Second Place
Goodchild and Daganzo
Double-Cycling Strategies for Container Ships and Their Effect on Ship Loading and Unloading Operations
The paper was published in Transportation Science, Vol. 40 No. 4 (2006)

Third Place
Roodbergen and Vis
A Model for Warehouse Layout
The paper was published in IIE Transactions, Vol. 38, (2006)

Papers were judged on the basis of the following criteria:
• Impact on the state-of-the-art of material handling
• The degree to which the research advances the state-of-knowledge
• Innovativeness of research methodology
• Novel application exhibited
A committee of academic and professional evaluators associated with the Material Handling Industry of America selected the outstanding papers.