Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award
| ASME Unit: | Design Engineering Division |
| Date Established: | 2011 |
| Achievement: | For sustained and meritorious contributions to design for manufacturing and the life cycle |
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| Nomination Deadline: | 3/1 |
| Form of Award: | Beveled Glass Plaque Honorarium ($1500) |
| Frequency of Award: | Annual |
| Administrative: | Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle (DFMLC) |
| Level of Award: | Section |
| Selected By: | Kos Ishii-Toshiba award selection committee (Three DFMLC executive committee members and two past winners) |
| Selecting Process: | Review of nomination package (a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, and minimum three letters of recommendation) and majority voting |
| Funding: | Kos Ishii-Toshiba funds (04-0204) |
| Date Created: | 6/28/2010 |
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Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award Recipients
| 2011 | Satyandra K. Gupta (Smith International Professor Director, Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Viterbi School of Engineering. University of Southern California) |
| 2012 | David O. Kazmer (University of Massachusetts-Lowell) |
| 2013 | Karthik Rmani (Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy), Professor of Educational Studies, College of Education (by courtesy), Purdue University) |
| 2014 | Deborah Thurston (Gutsgell Professor, Interim Department Head; Co-Director, Technology & Management, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign ) |
| 2015 | Kazuhiro Saitou (Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan) |
| 2016 | Gül Kremer (Professor and C.G. “Turk” & Joyce A. Therkildsen Department Chair of Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at The Iowa State University) |
| 2017 | Peter Sandborn, Keystone Professor, Director, MTech, Mechanical Engineering, Maryland Energy Innovation Institute, Center for Risk and Reliability, University of Maryland |
| 2018 | Joshua Summers, Professor in Mechanical Engineering and named College IDEaS Professor at Clemson University, co-directs the CEDAR Group (Clemson Engineering Design Applications and Research) |
| 2019 | Harrison Kim, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| 2020 | Dr. Bert Bras (Brook Byers Professor and Associate Chair for Administration, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2021 | No Winner |
| 2022 | Dr. Fu Zhao, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University |