It is my pleasure to announced the winner of the Directors Award for the Best Poster at the AIChE Annual Meeting. The winning poster is Modeling of Tubular High-Pressure Polyethylene Reactors, Thomas Herrmann, Markus Busch, Barbara Gall, Dieter Lilge, Gerd Mannebach and Iakovos Vittorias, (1)Ernst-Berl-Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, (2)Basell Polyolefine GmbH, a LyondellBasell company, R & D, Frankfurt, Germany http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2010/webprogram/Paper196113.html Two honorable mentions were also given: Parameter Estimation In Global Pharmacokinetic Models for Drug Delivery, Andrej Mošať, Eric Lueshen, Cierra Hall and Andreas A. Linninger, Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2010/webprogram/Paper200828.html and A New Approach to Model Identification In E. Coli Fed-Batch Fermentations, Mariano Nicolas Cruz Bournazou, Harvey Arellano-Garcia, Peter Neubauer and Günter Wozny, (1)Chair of Process Dynamics and Operation, Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany, (2)Chair of Bioprocess Technology, Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2010/webprogram/Paper195254.html