Patrick J. Higgins Award
This medal is intended to recognize an individual who has contributed to the enhancement of standardization of ASME Standards and Engineering Services in any of the following areas: Aerospace and Advanced Engineering Drawings; Plumbing Materials and Equipment; Screw Threads; Tools (machine, cutting and hand); Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, washers); Chains, Attachments and Sprockets for Power Transmission & Conveying; Nominal Wrought Pipe Sizes and Wall Thicknesses; Pressure and Temperature Instruments & Accessories; Classification & Designation of Surface Qualities; Gage Blanks; Chemical Standard Pumps; Dimensional Metrology; Bioprinters; Industrial System Energy Assessment; Overhead Hoists; Manufacturing and Advanced Manufacturing; Model Based Enterprise; Measurement of Fluid Flow in Closed Conduits; Mobile Unmanned Systems; Power Plant Reliability, Availability, and Performance; Steel Stacks; Thermal Medicine; Verification and Validation and Uncertainty Qualification in Computational Modeling and Simulation; Engineering Product Definition and Related Documentation Practices.
The Medal was established in 2007 by the Board on Standardization & Testing to honor Patrick J. Higgins who was the long standing Chairman of the A112 Committee on Plumbing Materials & Equipment and a member of the Board on Standardization.
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| Form of Award: | $1000, bronze medal and certificate |
| Limitation(s): | Advancement of ASME codes, standards, and conformity assessment |
| Administrative Responsibility: | None |
| Nomination Deadline: | February 1 |
| E-mail: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Medal Awarded By: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
Patrick J. Higgins Medalists
| 2008 | Morris Klimboff |
| 2009 | Jayaraman Raja |
| 2010 | Archie R. Anderson |
| 2011 | Sally A. Remedios |
| 2012 | Frederick G. Parsons |
| 2013 | Robert J. DeBoom |
| 2014 | Brian Parry |
| 2015 | Shabbir M. Rawalpindiwala |
| 2016 | Frank Bakos |
| 2017 | Thomas Charlton Jr. |
| 2018 | Julius Ballanco |
| 2019 | Christopher J. Freitas |
| 2020 | Mark C. Malburg |
| 2021 | A. Richard Emmerson |
| 2022 | Ken Burkhardt |
| 2023 | Peter DeMarco |
| 2025 | William M. Smith Jr. |