Prime Movers Committee Award
The Prime Movers Committee Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the literature of thermal electric station practice or equipment which are available through public presentation and publication. Those papers approved by the appropriate papers review committee as meeting ASME standards and available in printed form may be considered for this award. Papers, while usually current need not necessarily be so, may be by a single author or multiple authors.
The Prime Movers Committee of the Edison Electric Institute established the award in 1954.
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| Form of Award: | $2,500 and Certificate |
| Limitation(s): | None |
| Administrative Responsibility: | Power Division |
| Nomination Deadline: | February 1 |
| E-mail: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
Prime Movers Committee Awardees
| 2025 | Sharad Namdeo Pachpute Jason C. Lee |
| 2024 | Joe Roy-Aikins Gary De Klerk Duduzile Ramasimong Kumar Rupnarain |
| 2017 | Darren M. Nightingale |
| 2016 | Weizhong Feng |
| 2014 | Robert J. Bell Albert S. Birks |
| 2013 | Arun Puri John DiBiase |
| 2012 | Luther M. Raatikka |
| 2011 | William H. Kirkenir David Earley |
| 2010 | Antonio Diego-Marin Carlos Melendez-Cervantes Angel A. Mendez-Aranda Armando Giles-Alarcon |
| 2009 | Robert Brandt Jr. |
| 2008 | La Ronda Bowen-Fruin Allen Dusault Ruth MacDougall Heidi Ochsner George Simons |
| 2007 | Thomas Reis Dani Fadda Mark A. Buzanowski |
| 2005 | Fred D. Lang Loren E. Mayer David A.T. Rodgers |
| 2001 | Marco Gambini Michela Vellini |
| 2000 | David B. Smith David A. Mauney |
| 1997 | Thomas H. McCloskey Michael A. Pollard John N. Schimmels |
| 1994 | Rattan K. Tawney Ram G. Narula Michael J. Boswell Fabrizio DeCandia |
| 1993 | Michael F. Link Erich Winschuh Karl-Heinz Winterberg Arne Mattis |
| 1992 | John B. Kitto, Jr. James S. Kulig Stephen A. Bryk |
| 1990 | Rick Blomgren Thomas G. Ebben Imdad Imam John R. Scheibel |
| 1988 | Heinrich Oeynhausen Gerhard Roettger Juergen Ewald Kurt Schleithoff Karl-Heinz Winterberg Arne Mattis |
| 1987 | Peter Schofield |
| 1986 | William J. Sumner James H. Vogan Robert J. Lindinger |
| 1985 | David H. Cooke |
| 1984 | Kenneth C. Cotton Harris S. Shafer Thomas H. McCloskey Robert H. Boettcher |
| 1983 | Paul G. Albert William J. Sumner |
| 1982 | Eric Raask |
| 1981 | Bezalel Bornstein Kenneth C. Cotton |
| 1980 | Heinz E. Termuehlen |
| 1979 | Henry E. Lokay D.G. Ramey W.R. Brose |
| 1977 | M. Araoka J.D. Fox H. Haneda K. Setoguchi W.F. Siddall |
| 1976 | Hans-Gunter Haddenhorst Wolfgang Mattick Z. Stanley Stys Otto Weber |
| 1975 | Karl A. Gulbrand Paul Leung |
| 1974 | Bezalel Bornstein Paul Leung |
| 1973 | D.W. Rahoi R.C. Scarberry J.R. Crum P.E. Morris |
| 1972 | G.S. Liao Paul Leung |
| 1971 | Paul Leung Raymond E. Moore |
| 1970 | Paul Leung Raymond E. Moore |
| 1969 | Paul Goldstein Charles L. Burton |
| 1968 | G.N. Stone A.J. Clark |
| 1967 | Homer F. Hatfield Mark G. Pfeiffer Charles B. Wurtz |
| 1966 | F.J. Hanzalek P.G. Ipsen |
| 1965 | A.E. Weller W.T. Reid |
| 1964 | Everett P. Partridge |
| 1963 | E.F. Walsh R.L. Jackson R.E. Warner |
| 1961 | Charles Strohmeyer, Jr. |
| 1960 | Sigmund N. Fiala James H. Harlow |
| 1959 | J. Kenneth Salisbury |
| 1958 | Vivian F. Estcourt |
| 1957 | Heinrich Hegetschweller Robert L. Bartlett |
| 1956 | Milton Shaw John W. Simpson |
| 1955 | Louis Elliott Walter F. Friend Edward C. Duffy Gustaf A. Gaffert Fred W. Argue Bernhardt G.A. Skrotski Walter J. Lyman T. Harry Mandil Nunzio J. Palladino |