Prof. Gralla and her colleague Prof. Zoe Szajnfarber were awarded the "Best Paper Award in Systems Engineering Journal, 2017" for their paper:
Z. Szajnfarber and E. Gralla (2017). "Qualitative methods for engineering systems: why we need them and how to use them" Systems Engineering, 20(6), pp. 697-511.
The award was presented at the INCOSE meeting in June 2018.