The Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal is awarded to the young engineering graduate who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering within ten years following receipt of the baccalaureate degree. Any person who, on July 1 of the year of the award, graduated not more than ten years from the regular engineering program of a recognized college or university shall be eligible for recognition.

PI TAU SIGMA AWARDS
In 1938, Pi Tau Sigma (National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society) arranged with ASME for the joint award of the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal. This medal is awarded for ourstanding achievement in mechanical engineering to a young engineer within ten years after graduation from the regular engineering course of a recognized college or university.

In 1944, the Charles Russ Richards Award was similarly established as a joint award of Pi Tau Sigma and ASME to recognize the outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering by the enginering graduate within twenty to twenty-five years following graduation. In 1978, the upper twenty-five year limit was removed.

In 1973, Pi Tau Sigma and ASME entered into a new agreement which continued the existing awards and added the Gustus L. Larson Award to honor engineering graduates for outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering between ten and twenty years after graduation. Funding was provided from the ASME Ward S. and Editha Jacobs Fund.

The qualifications for the recipients of each of the three awards are identical except for the period of recognized achievements. In each case the recipient shall have received a baccalaureate degree from a regular engineering program of a recognized college or university and shall have attained outstanding achievement within the period stated for each award. Achievement shall be all or in part in any field, including industrial, educational, political, research, civic and artistic. The candidate's achievements will be examined for an application of basic engineering methods or principles.

The three awards are administered by a Joint Board of Award appointed by Pi Tau Sigma and ASME. The Chair is a Pi Tau Sigma appointee. The Board of Award provides forms and invites ASME Sections and other units to nominate for the awards. The Board of Award submits the names and records of the persons selected for the three awards to the ASME Committee on Honors for the formal selection of the recipients.

PI TAU SIGMA GOLD MEDALISTS 

The Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal is awarded to the young engineering graduate who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering within ten years following receipt of the baccalaureate degree. Any person who, on July 1 of the year of the award, graduated not more than ten years from the regular engineering program of a recognized college or university shall be eligible for recognition.

1938	Wilfred E. Johnson	1962	E. Bruce Lee	1985	Wing Kam Liu
1939	John Yellot, Jr.	1963	Herbert Richardson	1986	Dimos Poulikakos
1940	George A. Hawkins	1964	Richard L. Peskin	1987	David L. McDowell
1941	R. Hosmer Norris	1965	John Bollinger	1988	Mark F. Hamilton
1942	John T. Rettaliata	1966	Jason R. Lemon	1989	Steven M. Wilson
1943-46	No award due to war	1967	William O'Donnell	1990	Dionissios N. Assanis
1947	David Cochrane	1968	Randall F. Barron	1991	Yves H. Berthelot
1948	Walter G. Vincenti	1969	Henry K. Newhall	1993	Melany L. Hunt
1949	Phillip S. Myers	1970	Richard E. Barrett	1994	Zhigang Suo
1950	Arthur P. Adamson	1971	James R. Rice	1995	Thomas R. Kurfess
1951	Warren M. Rohsenow	1972	John F. Stephens III	1996	Gregory S. Chirikjian
1952	Robert L. O'Brien	1973	Christian E.G. Przirembel	1998	Wei Chen
1953	Merle Baker	1974	Jace W. Nunziato	1999	Margaret S. Wooldridge
1954	Emmett E. Day	1975	Ted B. Belytschko	2000	Connie J. Buynacek
1955	Robert C. Dean, Jr.	1976	John S. Walker	2002	Assimina A. Pelegri
1956	John A. Clark	1977	Richard E. Lovejoy	2003	Bogdan I. Epureanu
1957	Patrick McDonald, Jr.	1978	David A. Peters	2004	Kenneth A. Gall
1958	Allison E. Simons	1980	Doyle D. Knight	2006	Nicholas Fang
1959	Donald F. Hays	1982	Polychronis-Thomas	2009	A. John Hart
1960	George Hatsopoulos		Demetriou Spanos
1961	Ernest T. Selig	1984	Michael R. Muller