The Cummins SuperTruck Project-sponsored Purdue paper entitled: "Estimation of effective compression ratio for engines utilizing flexible intake valve actuation", and written by Dr. Karla Stricker and her colleagues Dr. Lyle Kocher, Ed Koeberlein, Dr. Dan Van Alstine, and Prof. Greg Shaver has been selected as the best paper published in the Journal of Automobile Engineering in 2012.  It was selected from among 132 papers published in the journal in 2012.