SCS Awards
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) offers numerous awards for exemplary achievement. These awards highlight different areas of achievement in modeling and simulation and honor those whose contribution to the simulation community or to the society has been widespread. Recipients must be active members of SCS.
SCS will run the Board of Directors Awards and Fellow Nominations on January 1, 2024.
Contribution to the Profession Awards
OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION AWARD
Frequency: As appropriate
1992 Roger Smith
1992 Annie Saylor
1992 Chain-Le Jen
1996 Lou Chongde
1996 José Pablo Nuño
1998 Colonel Robert Reddy
1998 Charlie Shub
2003 Lou Birta
2009 Terry Ericsen
2011 Gabriel Wainer
2012 Andreas Tolk
2013 Miquel Angel Piera
2016 Del Lunceford
2017 Saurabh Mittal
2018 Navonil Mustafee
2019 Saikou Diallo
2021 Lin Zhang
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Frequency: Typically, at most one such award is given each year.
1992 Ed Mitchell
1992 Les White
1998 Brian Unger
2003 Tuncer Ören
2003 Richard Fujimoto
2003 Judith Daumman
2011 Levent Yilmaz
2012 Agostino Bruzzone
2013 Gabriel Wainer
2014 Andreas Tolk
McLeod Founder's Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession
Criteria: This award typically recognizes a group of technical contributions which have been made by the candidate over a significant period of time; e.g., a decade or more. They clearly reflect a commitment by the candidate to nurturing a robust evolution of the profession. The significant nature of the contributions will be supported by their wide dissemination in the technical literature and their discernible impact on the manner in which some aspect of the modeling and simulation activity is carried out.
Frequency: Typically, at most one such award is given each 3 years.
1994 Ben Clymer
1994 General Gorman
1996 Bob Howe
1997 Granino Korn
1999 Bernard Zeigler
2009 Mohammad Obaidat
2010 François Cellier
2013 Osman Balci
2017 Tuncer Oren
2022 Gabriel Wainer
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR ENABLING THE MODELING AND SIMULATION DISCIPLINE
Frequency: Typically, at most one such award is given each 3 years.
2011 Admiral Fred Lewis
2019 Azad Madni
YOUNG SIMULATION SCIENTIST
Frequency: Typically, at most one such award is given each year.
2017 Laili Yuanjun
2019 Philippe Giabbanelli
2020 Cristina Ruiz Martin
2021 Hamdi Kavak
2022 Maria Julia Blas
2022 Christopher Lynch
Service to the Society (SCS) Awards
OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD
Frequency: As appropriate.
1997 Rainer Rimane
1999 Bernd Schmidt
2000 Paul Fishwick
2002 Bill Waite
2003 Mohammad Obaidat
2004 Adelinde Uhrmacher
2004 Tag Gon Kim
2011 Francesco Longo
2011 Helena Sczerbicka
2012 Hala ElAarag
2013 Yu Zhang
2014 Norbert Giambiasi
2015 Gregory Zacharewicz
2016 Saurabh Mittal
2016 Andrea D’Ambrogio
2017 Jose Luis Risco Martin
2018 Jose Marzo
2018 Antonio Bueno
2018 Jose Luis Sevillano Ramos
2018 Umut Durak
2020 Gabriel Wainer
2022 Rodrigo Castro
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
Frequency: Typically, at most one such award is given each year.
1992 Roy Crosbie
1992 Stew Schlesinger
1993 Ghi Vansteenkiste
1997 Mitch Sisle
1997 Ariel Sharon
1997 Eugene Kerchkoffs
1999 Marty Wildberger
2000 Suzette McLeod
2001 Robert Judd
2003 Bruce Fairchild
2005 Axel Lehmann
2006 Wayne Ingalls
2006 Tuncer Ören
2007 Richard MacDonald
2008 Drew Hamilton
2008 Agostino Bruzzone
2008 Bruce Fairchild
2008 Michael Chinni
2009 Helen Karatza
2009 Pieter Mosterman
2009 Bob Brennan
2011 Joe Gauthier
2011 Bill Tucker
2011 Bill Waite
2011 Hamid Vakilzadian
2012 Louis G. Birta
2012 Levent Yilmaz
2015 Gabriel Wainer
2016 Levent Yilmaz
2018 Helena Szczerbicka
2018 Franco Davoli
2020 Adelinde Uhrmacher
2022 Yiannis Papelis
Presidential Award for Service to the Society
Criteria: This award recognizes unique long term service to the Society by a member. The candidate will typically have made a series of outstanding contributions over a 10 to 15 year period and exhibited leadership ability that has clearly resulted in a growth in the vitality of the Society. The candidate’s decisions while in positions of responsibility have influenced the future of SCS. In addition to his/her demonstrated leadership ability, the candidate will typically have an acknowledged stature for technical achievement.
Frequency: Typically, at most one such award is given each 3 years.
1997 Vince Amico
2002 Roy Crosbie
2003 Axel Lehmann
2008 Ralph Huntsinger
2008 Bernard Zeigler
2010 Drew Hamilton
2012 Mohammad Obaidat
2013 Hessam Sarjoughian
2019 John Sokolowski
Bill Waite Presidential Award
Criteria: This award recognizes an individual who has made substantial contributions to establishing Modeling and Simulation as a discipline in academia, industry, and/or government. The person awarded the Bill Waite Presidential Award will embody and demonstrate some of Bill’s many contributions and accomplishments to the discipline, ethics, education, vocation, societies, and economics in Modeling and Simulation.
Frequency:
2018 Bill Waite (Posthumously)
Lifetime Achievement Awards
SCS MODELING & SIMULATION HALL OF FAME
Frequency: Typically, at most one such award is given each year.
2002 John McLeod
2003 Vince Amico
2005 Bob Howe
2006 Granino Korn
2008 Walter Karplus – (posthumously)
2009 Bernard P. Zeigler
2011 Tuncer Ören
2012 BoHu Li
2014 Mohammad Obaidat
2015 Agostino Bruzzone
2015 Ralph Huntsinger
2017 Axel Lehmann
2017 Roy Crosbie