Machine Design Award
The Machine Design Award recognizes eminent achievement or distinguished service in the field of machine design which is considered to include application, research, development, or teaching of machine design. In 1958, the Machine Design Division (now Design Engineering Division) established the award.
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| Form of Award: | $1000, plaque and certificate |
| Limitation(s): | None |
| Administrative Responsibility: | Design Engineering Division |
| Nomination Deadline: | February 1 |
| E-mail: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | General Awards Committee (GAC) |
Machine Design Awardees
| 2023 | Shapour Azarm |
| 2022 | Diann Brei |
| 2020 | Jian S. Dai |
| 2019 | Gregory S. Chirikjian |
| 2018 | John J. Uicker Jr. |
| 2017 | S.V. Sreenivasan |
| 2016 | Sunil K. Agrawal |
| 2015 | Jorge Angeles |
| 2014 | Larry L. Howell |
| 2013 | Clément Gosselin |
| 2010 | Jahangir S. Rastegar |
| 2009 | J. Michael McCarthy |
| 2008 | Alexander H. Slocum |
| 2007 | Steven A. Velinsky |
| 2006 | Itzhak Green |
| 2005 | Bahram Ravani |
| 2004 | Sridhar Kota |
| 2003 | Richard F. Salant |
| 2002 | Robert L. Norton |
| 2001 | Steven Dubowsky |
| 2000 | Joseph Duffy |
| 1999 | Panos Y. Papalambros |
| 1997 | Jack A. Collins |
| 1996 | Hans A. Eschenauer |
| 1995 | Ray C. Johnson |
| 1994 | Kenneth J. Waldron |
| 1993 | Charles O. Smith |
| 1992 | Edward J. Haug, Jr. |
| 1991 | F.R. Erskine Crossley |
| 1990 | Charles R. Mischke |
| 1989 | Arthur G. Erdman |
| 1988 | Hamilton H. Mabie |
| 1987 | Gerard G. Lowen |
| 1986 | Atmaram H. Soni |
| 1985 | Joseph E. Shigley |
| 1984 | Bernard Roth |
| 1983 | Edward J. Wellauer |
| 1982 | Delbert Tesar |
| 1981 | Henry O. Fuchs |
| 1980 | Merhyle F. Spotts |
| 1979 | Robert R. Slaymaker |
| 1978 | Ali A. Seireg |
| 1977 | Mathew M. Kuts |
| 1976 | Charles W. Radcliffe |
| 1975 | George N. Sandor |
| 1974 | Allen S. Hall, Jr. |
| 1972 | Ferdinand Freudenstein |
| 1971 | Walter L. Starkey |
| 1970 | Reynold B. Johnson |
| 1969 | Eugene L. Radzimovsky |
| 1968 | C. Walton Musser |
| 1967 | Ernest Wildhaber |
| 1966 | Beno Sternlicht |
| 1965 | Arthur M. Wahl |
| 1964 | Rufus Oldenburger |
| 1963 | Colin Carmichael |
| 1962 | J.F. Downie Smith |
| 1961 | Robert G. LeTourneau |
| 1960 | Rudolph E. Peterson |
| 1959 | Charles E. Crede |