Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award
The Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award is presented for the best current original paper or papers (not published elsewhere) which has/have been presented before ASME and/or published by ASME during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award. The paper(s) should clearly demonstrate that the science and engineering technologies outlined in the paper, resulted in a significant contribution to the manufacturing processes and systems for the design or application of machine tools, gauges, dimensional measuring instruments, or new manufacturing technologies and metrology approaches.
Papers by multiple authors are eligible. The award shall be made annually if warranted.
The award was established in 1954 by Frederick S. Blackall, Jr., Fellow and Seventy-second President of the Society.
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| Form of Award: | $1000 and plaque |
| Limitation(s): | None |
| Administrative Responsibility: | Manufacturing Engineering Division |
| Nomination Deadline: | December 15 |
| Nomination Sent To: | Leila Persaud |
| Phone Number: | 212-591-7071 |
| E-mail: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | Committee on Honors |
BLACKALL MACHINE TOOL AND GAGE AWARD RECIPIENTS
| 1955 | Carl J. Oxford, Jr. | 1989 | Lucian Kops | Shiv G. Kapoor | |
| John A. Cook | M. Helmi Attia | Richard E. DeVor | |||
| 1956 | Orlan W. Boston | 1990 | Jiri Tlusty | 2009 | Robert J. Hocken |
| William W. Gilbert | 1991 | Eiji Usui | Jimmie A. Miller | ||
| 1957 | Bei T. Chao | Masami Masuko | K. Scott Smith | ||
| Kenneth J. Trigger | Akihiko Hirota | Bethany A. Woody | |||
| 1958 | S.A. Tobias | Takahiro Shirakashi | 2010 | Dalong Gao | |
| Wilfred Fishwick | Takeaki Kitagawa | Ugur Ersoy | |||
| 1960 | B. Popper | 1992 | Guangming Zhang | Robin Stevenson | |
| David W. Pessen | 1993 | Changsheng Guo | Pei-Chung Wang | ||
| 1961 | Joseph R. Roubik | Stephen Malkin | 2011 | O. Burak Ozdoganlar | |
| 1962 | W.A. Mohn | Fershid Engineer | Sinan Filiz | ||
| 1963 | E.G. Thomsen | 1994 | David A. Stephenson | 2012 | Rui Zhou |
| A.G. MacDonald | 1995 | Jerzy Kozak | Jian Cao | ||
| 1965 | Robert S. Hahn | K.P. Rajurkar | Kornel F. Ehmann | ||
| 1967 | J. Hopenfeld | Bin Wei | Chun Xu | ||
| R.R. Cole | 1996 | William R.D. Wilson | 2013 | Caner Eksioglu | |
| 1968 | Kuo-King Wang | Tse-Chi Hsu | Zekai M. Kilic | ||
| Shien-Ming Wu | Xiubao Huang | Yusuf Altintas | |||
| Kazuaki Iwata | 1997 | William J. Endres | 2014 | Mingyang Li | |
| 1971 | William P. Koster | Richard E. DeVor | Robert G. Landers | ||
| Louis J. Fritz | Shiv G. Kapoor | Ming C. Leu | |||
| 1974 | S.P. Loutrel | 1998 | Shounak M. Athavale | Lie Tang | |
| N.H. Cook | John S. Strenkowski | 2017 | Hai T. Nguyer | ||
| 1975 | Sindre Holoyen | 1999 | Jamal Sheikh-Ahmad | Hui Wang | |
| C. Dan Mote, Jr. | John A. Bailey | Bruce L. Tai | |||
| 1980 | Robert A. Thompson | 2000 | Barney E. Klamecki | Jie Ren | |
| Subbiah Ramalingam | 2001 | Woncheol Choi | S. Jack Hu | ||
| John D. Watson | Thomas R. Kurfess | Albert J. Shih | |||
| 1981 | Ranga Komanduri | 2002 | Charalabos C. Doumanidis | 2018 | Sripati Sah |
| Robert H. Brown | Yong-Min Kwak | Numpon Mahayotsanun | |||
| 1982 | Nam P. Suh | 2003 | Ihab Hanna | Michael Peshkin | |
| Bruce M. Kramer | Scott A. Hucker | Jian Cao | |||
| 1983 | Richard E. DeVor | Robin Stevenson | Robert X. Gao | ||
| William A. Kline | Guoxian Xiao | 2019 | Burak Sencer Shingo Tajima |
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| Igbal A. Shareef | 2004 | Jose F. Hurtado | 2020 | Chabum Lee | |
| 1984 | Chunghorng R. Liu | Shreyes Melkote | 2022 |
Pablo Hernández Becerro David Schranz Christian Buesser Josef Mayr Jan Konvicka Joel Purtschert Konrad Wegener |
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| Moshe M. Barash | 2005 | Yong Huang | |||
| 1985 | Paul K. Wright | Steven Y. Liang | |||
| 1986 | David A. Dornfeld | 2006 | Y. Lawrence Yao | ||
| Elijah Kannatey-Asibu, Jr. | I. Cevdet Noyan | ||||
| 1988 | Betzalel Avitzur | Wenwu Zhang | |||
| Rensen Wu | 2007 | Yung C. Shin | |||
| Samuel H. Talbert | Yinggang Tian | ||||
| Ye T. Chou | 2008 | Andrew E. Honegger | |||