HONORARY MEMBERS
Ray M. Bowen
For achievements as professor, researcher, and journal editor; for dedicated service to ASME on technical committees, boards, and councils, and ABET evaluator; for NSF leadership and National Science Board service; and for accomplishments as dean, provost, and eight-year president of Texas A&M University.
Frank Kreith
For lifelong contributions to the mechanical engineering profession as teacher all over the world, author of significant textbooks, researcher in heat transfer and solar energy, and consultant to state governments on waste management, energy conservation and transportation.
J. Tinsley Oden
For the establishment of the Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences, a multi-disciplinary organization involving three colleges, fifteen academic departments, and a faculty of seventy; and for pioneering a simulation based engineering called "Goal Oriented Adaptivity," the impact of which promises to be enormous.
Donald N. Zwiep
For over 50 years of sustained contributions in the field of engineering education, in particular significant achievements as Chairman of the Board of the Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation; and for over 50 years of outstanding participation and leadership in ASME.
ASME MEDALIST
Bradford W. Parkinson
For outstanding leadership in the development of the Global Positioning System, which has provided significant freedom and safety to the traveling public.
ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
BERGLES-ROHSENOW YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD IN HEAT TRANSFER
Srinath V. Ekkad
For outstanding contributions to the field of heat transfer, particularly his pioneering application of the transient liquid crystal technique to thermal measurements associated with airfoil film cooling; and for prolific and groundbreaking publication on this subject.
PER BRUEL GOLD MEDAL FOR NOISE CONTROL AND ACOUSTICS
Leo L. Beranek
For exemplary leadership in formulating and disseminating practical and useful applications of today's most advanced technologies in noise control and acoustics, and for authoring a series of seminal textbooks that provide educators and practitioners with methods of application for these technologies.
EDWIN F. CHURCH MEDAL
David Lavery
For exceptional contributions to mechanical engineering education through guidance of FIRST engineering outreach programs, direction of national resources to improve technical literacy, and mentorship to youth in his local community.
DANIEL C. DRUCKER MEDAL
Frank A. McClintock
For extraordinary accomplishments in furthering basic understanding of the process of fracture and fatigue in engineering materials, and for life long intellectual leadership in this field in both academe and professional practice.
THOMAS A. EDISON PATENT AWARD
Faydor L. Litvin
For the patent "Apparatus and Method for Precision Grinding Face Gear," which revolutionizes the manufacturability and achievable quality of hardened face gears and reduces the weight of helicopter transmissions significantly lowering fuel requirements, emissions and operating costs.
WILLIAM T. ENNOR MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AWARD
Stephen Malkin
For research contributions leading to a comprehensive fundamental understanding of grinding and abrasive machining processes, for developing enabling technologies to enhance the efficiency of their use in industry, and for taking a leading role in the transformation of grinding and abrasive machining from an empirical craft to an applied science.
FLUIDS ENGINEERING AWARD
Joseph Katz
For the development and implementation of innovative quantitative flow visualization techniques, and for the use of these techniques in advancing our understanding of complex phenomena in cavitation inception, turbulent shear flows, turbomachinery flows, and ocean small-scale dynamics.
Y.C. FUNG YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
Richard E. Debski
For outstanding achievements in bioengineering research, in particular his work on the biomechanics of shoulder joints.
HENRY LAURENCE GANTT MEDAL
Julie Spicer England
For distinguished achievements in management and for outstanding service to the community.
MELVIN R. GREEN CODES AND STANDARDS MEDAL
Edward A. Donoghue
For over 30 years of commitment to the development and promotion of Safety Codes and Standards for elevators and escalators; for the contribution of technical expertise; and for leadership in the formulation of policies and procedures.
HEAT TRANSFER MEMORIAL AWARD
ART
Mohammad Faghri
For developing theoretical models and mathematical methods to advance the understanding of thermal-contact resistance, forced and natural convection, and micro-electronics cooling.
GENERAL
Yildiz Bayazitoglu
For pioneering research in numerical and experimental heat transfer with applications to electronics cooling, melting and solidification, and microscale thermal processes.
MAYO D. HERSEY AWARD
Hugh A. Spikes
For over 30 years of dedication to the field of Lubrication Science and Tribology; in particular, for eminent research that has greatly advanced our understanding of fluid film and boundary lubrication as well as tribo- and electrochemical aspects of additive-surface interactions.
SOICHIRO HONDA MEDAL
Rolf D. Reitz
For seminal contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence, sprays, and combustion chemistry relative to the performance and emissions from diesel, spark-ignition, and HCCI engines; for technology innovations in fuel injection systems; and for computation methods defining future diesel combustion systems and advanced engine controls for low emissions.
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AWARD
Humphrey Niven
For leading a team of engineers and technical staff in the design, development and application of large engines for clients worldwide, and for pioneering work in the control of emissions in large diesel engines for stationary and marine applications.
WARNER T. KOITER MEDAL
Zenon Mróz
For significant contributions to elastic/plastic material behavior modeling, to tribology, and to optimization.
JAMES N. LANDIS MEDAL
Toshiaki Hasegawa
Ashwani K. Gupta
For the development and implementation of revolutionary high temperature air combustion technology that has resulted in significant energy savings, reduced pollution, including carbon dioxide, downsize of the equipment and better quality of product for a range of applications using fossil fuels and waste fuels.
BERNARD F. LANGER NUCLEAR CODES AND STANDARDS AWARD
Yasuhide Asada
For distinguished contributions and leadership in the advancement and recognition of ASME Nuclear Codes and Standards on a worldwide basis; and for dedication to the enhancement and continued integrity of the ASME codes and standards consensus process.
GUSTUS L. LARSON AWARD
Suresh V. Garimella
For outstanding achievements in mechanical engineering within ten to twenty years following graduation.
H. R. LISSNER MEDAL
John M. Tarbell
For pioneering research in vascular fluid mechanics, endothelial permeability, the development of the artificial heart, and heart valve fluid mechanics; and for exemplary mentorship and leadership in the biomechanics community.
MACHINE DESIGN AWARD
Sridhar Kota
For eminent achievement in machine design synthesis, including contributions to such diverse fields as rigid body kinematics, compliant mechanisms, MEMS, adaptive structures, and reconfigurable machine tools.
CHARLES T. MAIN STUDENT SECTION AWARD
GOLD
Stephen J. Klick
For outstanding leadership in the Boise State University Student Section, particularly in the areas of fundraising, collaboration with other student organizations, and the motivation of student members to lead and accomplish.
SILVER
Aaron J. Ryan
For more than four years of dedicated service in the North Dakota State University Student Section, most recently as Section President; and for contributions as Region VII SSC representative and SSC Competition Subcommittee Chair.
M. EUGENE MERCHANT MANUFACTURING MEDAL OF ASME/SME
David A. Stephenson
For bringing scholarship and discoveries on the frontier of manufacturing research into the operating environment of a globally competitive business and promoting their application to achieve major improvements in quality and competitiveness.
NADAI MEDAL
Robert O. Ritchie
For seminal experimental and theoretical contributions to the field of fracture and fatigue of a broad class of structural materials.
BURT L. NEWKIRK AWARD
W. Gregory Sawyer
For notable contributions to bio-tribology, polymer nanocomposites and the advancement of tribological life prediction; and for contributions to granular and non-Newtonian fluid lubrication theory and to gas-surface and vapor-phase lubrication aspects of solid lubrication.
OLD GUARD YOUNG ENGINEERS AWARD
WINNER
Matthew L. Robinson
For outstanding and dedicated service to ASME as an officer in the Columbia Basin Section, in Region VIII, and at the society level; and for exemplary representation of ASME and the profession as a leader in countless youth-and-community events.
RUNNERS-UP
Mark R. Martin
For distinguished service to ASME as an officer in the Arkansas Section and as Chair of the Engineering Public Policy Program Committee.
John Randazzo
For outstanding service to ASME in several leadership positions in the Florida Section, including Section Chair.
RUFUS OLDENBURGER MEDAL
Alistair MacFarlane
For highly significant contributions to the theory, practice and teaching of dynamic systems and control, particularly related to the design of multivariable control systems in both time and frequency domains, and their application in diverse mechanical systems.
MARSHALL B. PETERSON AWARD
Deborah A. Osborne
For academic excellence and significant, award-winning research in three areas of applied tribology: the mechanism of blister-formation in carbon-graphite seal faces, the rotordynamic performance of rigid geometry gas lubricated bearings, and the development of material wear pairs for high temperature gas lubricated foil bearings.
PI TAU SIGMA GOLD MEDAL
Kenneth A. Gall
For outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering within ten years of graduation.
JAMES HARRY POTTER GOLD MEDAL
Van P. Carey
For sustained research and teaching in thermodynamics, in particular innovative application of analysis tools derived from statistical thermodynamics or the thermodynamics of nonequilibrium systems, and authorship of widely used monographs and textbooks on multiphase systems and statistical thermodynamics.
PRESSURE VESSEL AND PIPING MEDAL
Greg L. Hollinger
For significant contributions to the field of pressure vessel and piping technology, particularly for advancing the state-of-the-art in mechanical/structural technology applications and design analysis of pressure vessel components and use of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code.
DIXY LEE RAY AWARD
Pedro A. Gelabert
For over 40 years of environmental stewardship in the Caribbean and Latin America; in particular for dedicated service as the main environmental advisor to several governors of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; for influencing and drafting key legislation leading to the establishment of environmental policies and environmental regulatory agencies in Puerto Rico; and for internationally recognized expertise in the emergency management of oil spills to protect fragile ecosystems.
RALPH COATS ROE MEDAL
William A. Wulf
For outstanding achievements as President of the National Academy of Engineering, in particular his initiatives for broadening public awareness of engineering.
SAFETY CODES AND STANDARDS MEDAL
Robert N. Rogers
For over 20 years of dedication to ASME Codes and Standards as distinguished by outstanding leadership, extraordinary perseverance, technical expertise and enthusiastic participation on the B56 Powered and Nonpowered Industrial Trucks Committee.
R. TOM SAWYER AWARD
Herb I.H. Saravanamuttoo
For almost 50 years of outstanding contribution to gas turbine theory and practice as an engineer, consultant, and teacher; and for groundbreaking research and publication, including authorship of the seminal textbook "Gas Turbine Theory."
BEN C. SPARKS MEDAL
Frank A. Gourley, Jr.
For exemplary and sustained contributions to ASME in higher education through research and professional service; and, as an industry leader and mechanical engineering technology faculty member, for contributions to teaching and research that have bridged engineering and engineering technology.
RUTH AND JOEL SPIRA OUTSTANDING DESIGN EDUCATOR AWARD
Clive L. Dym
For exceptional contributions to design education through widely-cited authorship on engineering design, through sponsorship of workshops and conference panels, and through enthusiastic mentoring of engineering students in the art and science of design.
STUDENT SECTION ADVISOR AWARD
Beth Ann Todd
For superb leadership at the University of Alabama resulting in a rejuvenated Student Section, which under her guidance has gone from receiving an Ingersoll-Rand award for most improved section to being a Little Giant award winner and a major contender at the national level.
J. HALL TAYLOR MEDAL
J. Robert Sims
For distinguished contribution, leadership, and professionalism in the advancement and recognition of pressure technology codes and standards worldwide; and for pioneering efforts in the development of criteria for post-construction and risk technologies for process and electric power plants.
ROBERT HENRY THURSTON LECTURE AWARD
Bharat Bhushan
For prolific, groundbreaking authorship and pioneering research in the general fields of Nanotribology and Nanomechanics and in the emerging field of Nanotechnology.
TIMOSHENKO MEDAL
Morton E. Gurtin
For seminal contributions over the past four decades to nonlinear continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, with applications to problems in materials science.
FRANK VON FLUE AWARD
Emil L. Martinec
For outstanding contributions to lifelong learning, in particular for chairing the original committee for professional development, for aiding in the development of regional learning centers, and for serving as the first president of the Midwest College of Engineering, an institution devoted to lifelong learning.
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE MEDAL
GOLD
Adel F. Sarofim
For exemplary contributions as an educator, researcher and consultant in techniques, design, development and applications in the field of combustion and power production, with emphasis on fuels, flames, radiation heat transfer, and pollution.
LITERATURE AWARDS
BLACKALL MACHINE TOOL & GAGE AWARD
Jose F. Hurtado
Shreyes Melkote
For the paper "Modeling and Analysis of the Effect of Fixture-Workpiece Conformability on Static Stability," which defines quantitative metrics that describe both overall workpiece and fixture shape conformity as well as local contact and deformation effects on conformity, and uses the metrics as a basis for stability analysis and to provide experimental validation of important, new results.
FREEMAN SCHOLAR AWARD
Gary S. Settles
For the paper "Sniffers: Fluid-Dynamic Sampling for Olfactory Trace Detection in Nature and Homeland Security."
GAS TURBINE AWARD
Ammar A. Al-Nahwi
James D. Paduano
Samir Nayfeh
For the paper "Aerodynamic-Rotordynamic Interaction in Axial Compression Systems, Part I: Modeling and Analysis of Fluid Induced Forces; and Part II: Impact of Interaction on Overall System Stability."
MELVILLE MEDAL
Peng Zhang
Yonggang Huang
Huajian Gao
Keh-Chih Hwang
For the paper, "Fracture Nucleation in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes Under Tension: A Continuum Analysis Incorporating Interatomic Potentials."
EDWARD F. OBERT AWARD
Adrian Bejan
Sylvie Lorente
For the paper, "Thermodynamic Formulation of the Constructal Law."
WORCESTER REED WARNER MEDAL
Ephraim Suhir
For outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering through a series of papers in mechanical, microelectronic, and optoelectronic engineering, which established a new discipline known as the Structural Analysis of Microelectronic and Photonic Systems.
ARTHUR L. WILLISTON AWARD
FIRST
Marie H. Hoffman
For the paper, "The Future Role of Mechanical Engineers in Bioengineering: A Perspective using the Development of the Mechanical Heart."
SECOND
Paul F. Tatum
For his paper, “Engineering a Better Bumper to Improve Safety in Automobile Crashes.”
THIRD
Aashish Kalra
For the paper, "The Future Role of Mechanical Engineers in Bioengineering."
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