Honorary Member
Honorary Membership is awarded for a lifetime of service to engineering or related fields--e.g. science, research, public service. This achievement is described as "distinguished service that contributes significantly to the attainment of the goals of the engineering profession." Ranking closely with Honorary Membership is the ASME Medal which is awarded for "eminently distinguished engineering achievement."
Honorary Membership was first awarded in 1880, the founding year of the Society.
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| Form of Award: | Silver medal, certificate, and a $750 travel allowance |
| Limitation(s): | Candidates for Honorary Member must be corporate members of ASME. Up to five Honorary Members may be elected each year. |
| Administrative Responsibility: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
| Nomination Deadline: | March 1 |
| Nomination Sent To: | Leila Persaud |
| Phone Number: | 212-591-7071 |
| Email: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | Board of Governors |
Honorary Member Recipients
| 1880 | Horatio Allen Henry R. Worthington |
1941 | Leon Pratt Alford Clarence Decatur Howe Adm. S.M. Robinson Aurel Stodola Maj. Gen. Charles M. Wesson |
1981 | Samuel R. Beitler Phillip Eisenberg James L. Everett, III Sydney Goldstein Sir Arnold Hall |
| 1882 | Daniel Kinnear Clark Rudolph J.E. Clausius Peter Cooper Otto Hallauer Gustav Adolf Hirn Alexander L. Holley Sir Edward J. Reed Franz Reuleaux Henri Adolphe-Eugene Schneider C. William Siemens Henri Tresca |
1942 | William L. Batt Willis H. Carrier Charles E. Ferris Jerome C. Hunsaker Sir Harry Ricardo |
1982 | Daniel C. Drucker William Hawthorne Kenneth D. Nichols Claude Seippel |
| 1884 | Johann Bauschinger Sir Frederick J. Bramwell Franz Grashof Friedrich Gustav Hermann |
1943 | Francis Blossom Ralph Budd Lt. Gen. A.G.L. McNaughton Edward N. Trump Roy V. Wright |
1983 | Karl Bammert Iain Finnie Nicholas J. Hoff Paul M. Naghdi William T. Reid |
| 1886 | Sir Benjamin Baker James Dredge Victor Dwelshauvers-Dery Francis A. Walker |
1944 | Charles M. Allen Maj. Gen. L. H. Campbell, Jr. Gano Dunn Vice-Adm. Emory S. Land Sir (Standen) Leonard Pearce |
1984 | Isaac R. Caraco Kenneth R. Daniel J. George H. Thompson |
| 1889 | Sir John Coode Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Joseph Hirsch |
1945 | Rear Adm. Harold G. Bowen Dugald Caleb Jackson Andrey Abraham Potter Sir William A. Stanier Wen-Hao Wong |
1985 | Ronald L. Geer Theodore H.H. Pian Raymond A.J. Snoeys |
| 1890 | Charles Talbot Porter | 1946 | Alexander G. Christie Ralph E. Flanders Lt. Gen. W.S. Knudsen Irving E. Moultrop Lewis K. Sillcox |
1986 | Bernard Crossland Allan D. Kraus |
| 1891 | Sir Henry Bessemer Henry Léauté |
1947 | Marquis of Aberdeen Everett G. Ackart Harvey N. Davis Lord Dudley Gordon Francis Hodgkinson Gen. George C. Marshall |
1987 | Richard J. Coar Robert Plunkett Herbert H. Richardson |
| 1894 | Benjamin Franklin Isherwood | 1948 | Carl F. Braun Lyman J. Briggs Oscar A. Leutwiler James W. Parker George I. Rockwood |
1988 | Stephen H. Crandall Robert H. Page Allen F. Rhodes Warren M. Rohsenow Edward A. Saibel |
| 1897 | George Westinghouse | 1949 | Alex D. Bailey Oliver V.S. Bulleid Samuel W. Duddley Roy C. Muir D. Robert Yarnall |
1989 | Fred Landis Hans W. Liepmann Edward F. Obert Antoni K. Oppenheim William R. Sears |
| 1898 | William Cawthorne Unwin | 1950 | Harold V. Coes Lilliam M. Gilbreth Frederick Ljungstrom Harry M. Pflager |
1990 | William E. Cooper George Herrmann |
| 1900 | Gustave Canet Sir Charles Douglas Fox John Fritz Sir WIlliam Henry White |
1951 | Norris Roy Crump Robert M. Gates Lewis F. Moody Latham E. Osborne Harry A. Winne |
1991 | Simon Ostrach Eric Reissner George N. Sandor |
| 1904 | Thomas Alva Edison | 1952 | John M. Lessell Stephen P. Timoshenko |
1992 | Richard M. Christensen Ferdinand Freudenstein Richard J. Goldstein Bernard L. Koff |
| 1905 | Sir WIlliam Arrol Charles Haynes Haswell |
1953 | Vice-Adm. Edward L. Cochrane William A. Handley Alexander C. Monteith Shepard T. Powell William F. Ryan |
1993 | Joseph M. Juran Chang L. Tien |
| 1907 | Andrew Carnegie | 1954 | Sir Hugh E.C. Beaver Vannevar Bush Sir Vincent de Ferranti Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Louis Giannattasio Richard Edgar Heartz Percy L. Jones Henry B. Oatley Abbott L. Penniman, Jr. Philip Sporn George L. Sullivan Charles E. Wilson |
1994 | T. Brooke Benjamin Allen Latham, Jr. |
| 1910 | Rear Adm. G.W. Melville | 1955 | Jacob Ackeret Joseph B. Armitage Detlev W. Bronk Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle Samuel B. Earle Simes T. Hoyt Ernest F. Mercier Carl G.A. Rosen Hilding V. Tornebohm Clyde E. Williams |
1995 | Alan J. Chapman Thomas R. Kane Paul Leung John H. Lienhard |
| 1911 | Sir J.A.F. Aspinal | 1956 | Charles W.E. Clark Willian Francis Gibbs Solomon C. Hollister |
1996 | Arthur E. Bergles Yuan-Cheng B. Fung George N. Hatsopoulos Stephen J. Kline Ascher H. Shapiro |
| 1912 | Carl Gustaf Patrick de Laval Rudolph Diesel Anatole Mallet Oskar von Miller |
1957 | E.G. Bailey John Blizard James E. Gleason Ernest L. Robinson |
1997 | Leroy S. “Skip” Fletcher Werner Goldsmith Salomon Levy Clayton Daniel Mote, Jr. Reginald I. Vachon |
| 1913 | Capt. Charles H. Manning | 1959 | Thomas B. Drew Adm. Ben Moreell |
1998 | Frederick F. Ling Genichi Taguchi |
| 1914 | Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow | 1960 | Henry T. Heald | 1999 | W. Wayne Allen Michael M. Carroll John Dundurs |
| 1915 | Erasmus Darwin Leavitt | 1961 | Sanford L. Cluett Frederick H. Rolt Willis F. Thompson |
2000 | Aaron Cohen Douwe de Vries |
| 1916 | Ambrose Swasey John Edson Sweet |
1962 | Clarence B. Campbell Thomas Keith Glennan |
2001 | Ernest L. Daman Helmut H. Korst Henry McDonald |
| 1917 | Maj.Gen. G.W. Goethals | 1963 | Vivian Fitzgeorge Estcourt Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder |
2002 | Jan D. Achenbach Bei Tse Chao Amos E. Holt |
| 1918 | Charles M. Schwab Orville Wright |
1964 | Jacob P. Den Hartog Hugh L. Dryden James N. Landis Glenn B. Warren |
2003 | Richard Rosenberg Karl J. Springer John A. Swanson |
| 1919 | Charles de Freminville Auguste C.E. Rateau |
1965 | Clarence E. Davies Hans Ernst Luis Giorgi William M. Keller Reginald J.S. Pigott |
2004 | Ray M. Bowen Frank Kreith J. Tinsley Oden Donald N. Zwiep |
| 1920 | Rear Adm. R.S. Griffin Robert Woolston Hunt The Honorable - Sir Charles Algernon Parsons Grande Uffiiale Ing. Pio Perrone Samuel Matthews Vauclain Right Honorable Lord Weir |
1966 | Orlan W. Boston Walker L. Cisler Joseph H. Keenan Alf J.R. Lysholm Sir Geoffrey I. Taylor |
2005 | Sia Nemat-Nasser John R. Sununu Charles O. Velzy |
| 1921 | Marshal Ferdinand Foch Nathanael Greene Herreshoff Henry Robinson Towne |
1967 | William H. Byrne Reinout P. Kroon Carl R. Soberberg Dana Young |
2006 | Alva L. Addy James R. Welty Ward O. Winer |
| 1925 | Gen. W.W. Atterbury Herbert Clark Hoover Worcester Reed Warner |
1968 | Crosby Field Robert B. Lea Rudolph E. Peterson Hunter House |
2007 | Avram Bar-Cohen Richard E. DeVor Bobby L. Green |
| 1927 | Henry Le Chatelier | 1969 | William C. Foster Raymond D. Mindlin R. Thomas Sawyer James M. Todd |
2008 | Robert A. Bennett Nancy D. Fitzroy |
| 1928 | Mortimer Elwyn Cooley Howard Coonley Ira N. Hollis |
1970 | Richard G. Folsom Martin Goland William Prager |
2009 | David L. Belden Winfred M. Phillips Charles M. Vest William A. Weiblen |
| 1929 | Masawo Kamo Vis. Ei-ichi Shibusawa |
1971 | Robert A. Bowman M. Eugene Merchant Nathan M. Newmark |
2010 | William J. Adams Harry Armen Keith B. Thayer David N. Wormley Sam Y. Zamrik |
| 1930 | Elihu Thomson | 1972 | Walter Ramberg George R. Rich Louis N. Rowley, Jr. Carl E. Tack |
2011 | Adrian Bejan Joseph A. Falcon Nathan H. Hurt Junuthula N. Reddy Paul J. Torpey |
| 1931 | Calvin Winsor Rice Palmer C. Ricketts |
1973 | Herbert Allen Miklós Hetényi Lord Hinton (of Bankside) Arthur M. Wahl Frank S.G. Williams |
2012 | Yildiz Bayazitoglu Zdenek P. Bažant Vijay K. Dhir Yogesh Jaluria |
| 1932 | John Ripley Freeman | 1974 | George Francis Carter John Wistar Simpson |
2013 | Ted Belytschko John Howell Said Jahanmir Sadik Kakac Arunava Majumdar |
| 1934 | William F. Durand David Schenk Jacobus |
1975 | Ernst R.G. Eckert George A. Hawkins Eugene W. O'Brien Stewart Way |
2014 | Warren R. DeVries Robert E. Nickell Pol D. Spanos |
| 1936 | Rear Adm. H.I. Cone Alex Dow George A. Orrok |
1976 | Samuel B. Batdorf Ralph M. Hardgrove Kenneth A. Roe Arthur F. Underwood |
2015 | Romesh Batra Webb J. Marner Terry E. Shoup |
| 1937 | Lorenzo Allievi | 1977 | Ivar Giaever Philip G. Hodge, Jr. Donald E. Marlowe Ralph A. Seban |
2016 | Cristina H. Amon Ashwani K. Gupta Shiv G. Kapoor |
| 1938 | Maj. Gen. W.H. Tschappat | 1978 | Howard W. Emmons Burgess H. Jennings |
2017 | Ramesh K. Agarwal John W. Cipolla Michael F. Modest |
| 1939 | Edmund Bruce Ball Dexter Simpson Kimball Charles Thomas Main Edwin Jay Prindle Henry Hague Vaughan |
1979 | H. Norman Abramson James B. Jones John E. Jonsson Morrough P. O’Brien Ronald B. Smith |
2018 | Portonovo Ayyaswamy Robert M. Nerem Alan Needleman Frank E. Talke |
| 1940 | William Abbott Robert W. Angus Arthur M. Greene, Jr. Albert Kingsbury James A. Seymour |
1980 | Gerald W. Becker Bruno A. Boley Roland A. Budenholzer Jimmy Carter Wallace Lacy Chadwick James W. Daily Branislav Djakovic Robert M. Drake, Jr. Charles W. Elston Carlo Ferrari Michael Field Sir Hugh Ford William R. Gould Serge Gratch Jost M. Haenny Shen Hong Sir Stanley Hooker Alexander Horowitz Yu-Tung Hu M.M. Khan Kankuro Kaneshige Milton C. Shaw Frank Spedding Arthur J. Stock Everett O. Waters |
2019 | Bilal M. Ayyub Amir Faghri D. Yogi Goswami |
| 2020 |
Je-Chin Han Farshid Sadeghi Masayoshi Tomizuka |
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| 2021 |
Yonggang Huang Marshall G. Jones John B. Kitto Jr. Hameed Metghalchi Pamela M. Norris |
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| 2022 | Tsu-Wei Chou Michael F. Molnar Huseyin Sehitoglu Savio L-Y. Woo Singiresu S. Rao |