This award has historically carried the name of its sponsor.
From its inception in 1988 to year 2000, this award was known as the MDI Mechanical Simulation Software Award.
From 2001 to 2009, the award was renamed the MSC Software Simulation Award.
The award has been discontinued.
Recipients of the Software Simulation Award:
2009
Jun Wu, Anurag Purwar, Q. J. Ge, “Interactive Dimensional Synthesis and Motion Design of Planar 6R Closed Chains via Constraint Manifold Modification”
2008
Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Sachin Chitta, Vijay Kumar, Daniel Lee, “Optimization of a Planar Quadruped Dynamic Leap”
2007
Ji-Chul Ryu, Sunil K. Agrawal, Jaume Franch, "Motion planning and control of a tractor with a steerable trailer using differential flatness"
2006
Philip Voglewede and Antonello Monti, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, "Variation Analysis of a Two Link Planar Manipulator Using Polynomial Chaos Theory"
2005
Chalongrath Pholsiri, Chetan Kapoor, Delbert Tesar, University of Texas at Austin, "Real-Time Robot Capability Analysis"
2004
Charles W. Wampler, General Motors R&D Center, "Locating N Points of a Rigid Body on N Given Planes"
Honorable Mention
José-M. Rico-Martinez & Bahram Ravani, University of California, Davis, "On Calculating the Degrees of Freedom or Mobility of Overconstrained Linkages"
2002
Haijun Su, Curtis Collins, and J. Michael McCarthy, University of California, Irvine, "An Extensible JAVA Applet for Spatial Linkage Synthesis"
2000
Herbert Stumph and Andrew Murray, University of Dayton, "SDAMP: Software for the Design and Analysis of Mechanical Presses"
1998
Pierre Larochelle, Florida Institute of Technology, "Spades - Software for for Synthesizing Spatial 4C Mechanisms"
1996
Not awarded
1994 (2 papers)
Prof. Eduardo, UC Santa Barbara
Ragnar Ledesma, University of Michigan
Carlo Innocenti, University of Bologna, Italy, "Polynomial Solution of the Spatial Burmester Problem"
1992
Larry L. Howell and Ashok Midha, Purdue University
Chintien Huang and Bernard Roth, Stanford University
1988
S. Manoochehri, Clarkson University
A. Seireg, University of Wisconsin