The paper titled “Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Testing of Rails: Experimental Prototype and Finite Element Simulations,” authored by Prof. Lanza di Scalea and by his former PhD students Stefano Mariani and Thompson Nguyen and published in the December 2017 issue of Materials Evaluation, the journal of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), was selected to receive the 2018 ASNT Outstanding Paper Award. This award recognizes one paper per year published in the Materials Evaluation Journal based on “originality, appropriateness & accuracy of supporting material, usefulness of the contribution, and clarity of the work.” The award will be given at the 2018 ASNT Annual Conference in Houston, TX, to be held in October 2018.