Founders Award
| ASME Unit: | Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnosis and Prognosis | 
| Date Established: | 1999 | 
| Achievement: | Exemplary achievement in NDE and engineering | 
| Limitations: | |
| Nomination Deadline: | May 1 | 
| Form of Award: | |
| Frequency of Award: | Biannual | 
| Administrative: | NDE Engineering Division Executive Committee | 
| Level of Award: | Division | 
| Selected By: | Division Executive Committee | 
| Selecting Process: | |
| Funding: | Executive Committee | 
| Date Created: | 10/8/2000 | 
| Date Modified: | 8/23/2012 | 
| Contact Name: | Henrique Reis | 
| Contact Email: | h-reis@illinois.edu | 
| Contact Phone: | 217-333-1228 | 
Founders Award Recipients
| 2001 | Ajit Mal, University of California (Los Angeles) | 
| 2003 | Joseph L. Rose, Pennsylvania State University | 
| 2005 | Eckhardt Schneider, Fraunhofer IZFP | 
| 2007 | Michael J. Farley | 
| 2007 | Doosan Babcock | 
| 2007 | Spenser H. Bush - Posthumous | 
| 2015 | Henrique Reis - University of Illinois | 
| 2017 | Tibikram Kundu - University of Arizona, Tucson | 
| 2018 | Victor Giurgiutiu - University of South Carolina | 
| 2019 | Peter Cawley - Imperial College | 
| 2020 | Peter B. Nagy | 
| 2021 | Francesco Lanza di Scalea | 
| 2022 | Michael Lowe | 
| 2023 | Laurence J. Jacobs | 
| 2024 | Professor Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan |