Recipients

• 2010 Gerald J. Posakony
• 2009 Yvonne Claeyes Brill
• 2008 Kristina M. Johnson
  Kristina M. Johnson
  Kristina M. Johnson was the undersecretary for Energy at the United States Department of Energy until she stepped down Nov. 5, 2010. She has previously been the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University since September 1, 2007. Previously, she had been the...
  
  
• 2007 Gavriel Salvendy
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• 2005 George Tamaro
• 2004 John A. Swanson
  John A. Swanson
  John A. Swanson is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Swanson is the founder of ANSYS, Inc., a John Fritz Medal winner, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering...
  
  
• 2003 Robert S. Langer
  Robert S. Langer
  Robert S. Langer is an American engineer and the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the department of chemical engineering and the department of...
  
  
• 2002 Daniel S. Goldin
• 2001 Paul C. W. Chu
• 2000 John W. Fisher
• 1999 George H. Heilmeier
  George H. Heilmeier
  George Harry Heilmeier is an American engineer and businessman, who was a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1998 Ivan A. Getting
  Ivan A. Getting
  Ivan Alexander Getting was an American physicist and electrical engineer, credited with the development of the Global Positioning System...
  
  
• 1997 Arthur E. Humphrey
• 1996 George N. Hatsopoulos
  George N. Hatsopoulos
  George Hatsopoulos is a Greek American mechanical engineer noted for his work in thermodynamics. In 1965, he and Joseph Keenan published their famous textbook Principles of General Thermodynamics, which restates the second law of thermodynamics in terms of the existence of stable equilibrium states...
  
  
• 1995 Lynn S. Beedle
• 1994 Hoyt C. Hotte
• 1993 Gordon E. Moore
• 1992 Serge Gratch
• 1991 Hunter Rouse
  Hunter Rouse
  Hunter Rouse was a hydraulician known for his research on the mechanics of fluid turbulence.Rouse was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, from 1929 until 1933, when he moved to Columbia University...
  
  
• 1990 Gordon A. Cain
• 1989 Robert N. Noyce
• 1988 Ralph B. Beck
• 1987 Ralph Landau
• 1986 Simon Ramo
  Simon Ramo
  Simon "Si" Ramo is an American physicist, engineer, and business leader. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the intercontinental ballistic missile...
  
  
• 1985 Daniel C. Drucker
  Daniel C. Drucker
  Daniel Charles Drucker was an authority on the theory of plasticity in the field of applied mechanics. He was awarded the Timoshenko Medal in 1983. He taught at Brown University from 1946 until 1968 when he joined the University of Illinois as Dean of Engineering...
  
  
• 1984 Kenneth A. Roe
• 1983 Claude Elwood Shannon
  Claude Elwood Shannon
  Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory"....
  
  
• 1982 David Packard
  David Packard
  David Packard was a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard , serving as president , CEO , and Chairman of the Board . He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969–1971 during the Nixon administration...
  
  
• 1981 Ian MacGregor
  Ian MacGregor
  Sir Ian Kinloch MacGregor, KBE was a Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist, most famous in the UK for his controversial tenure at British Steel and his conduct during the 1984-1985 miner's strike while managing the National Coal Board.-Early life:Born in Kinlochleven, Scotland, his...
  
  
• 1980 T. Louis Austin, Jr.
• 1979 Nathan M. Newmark
  Nathan M. Newmark
  Nathan Mortimore Newmark was an American structural engineer and academic. He was awarded the National Medal of Science for engineering.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1978 Robert G. Heitz
• 1977 George R. Brown
  George R. Brown
  George Rufus Brown was a prominent Houstonian entrepreneur. Brown led Brown & Root Inc. to become one of the largest construction companies in the world and helped to foster the political career of Lyndon B. Johnson. The George R. Brown Convention Center and the George R...
  
  
• 1976 Thomas O. Paine
  Thomas O. Paine
  Thomas Otten Paine , American scientist, was the third Administrator of NASA, serving from March 21, 1969 to September 15, 1970.During his administration at NASA, the first seven Apollo manned missions were flown...
  
  
• 1975 Manson Benedict
  Manson Benedict
  Manson Benedict was an American nuclear engineer and a professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1958 to 1968, he was the chairman of the advisory committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.-Biography:Born in Lake Linden, Michigan, Benedict received a...
  
  
• 1974 H. I. Romnes
• 1973 Lyman Wilber
• 1972 William Webster
• 1971 Patrick E. Haggerty
  Patrick E. Haggerty
  Patrick Eugene Haggerty was an American engineer and businessman. He was a co-founder and former president and chairman of Texas Instruments, Incorporated. Haggerty is most responsible for turning a small Texas oil exploration company into the leader in semiconductors that Texas Instruments is today...
  
  
• 1970 Glenn B. Warren
• 1969 Michael Lawrence Haider
  Michael Lawrence Haider
  Michael Lawrence Haider was a noted American petroleum engineer, business executive, and a founder of the National Academy of Engineering. He was chairman of Exxon Corporation from 1965-1969....
  
  
• 1968 Igor Ivan Sikorsky
• 1967 Walker L. Cisler
• 1966 Warren K. Lewis
  Warren K. Lewis
  Warren Kendall Lewis was an MIT professor who has been called the father of modern chemical engineering. He co-authored an early major textbook on the subject which essentially introduced the concept of unit operations...
  
  
• 1965 Frederick R. Kappel
• 1964 Lucius D. Clay
  Lucius D. Clay
  General Lucius Dubignon Clay was an American officer and military governor of the United States Army known for his administration of Germany immediately after World War II. Clay was deputy to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945; deputy military governor, Germany 1946; commander in chief, U.S....
  
  
• 1963 Hugh L. Dryden
• 1962 Crawford H. Greenewalt
• 1961 Stephen D. Bechtel
• 1960 Gwilyn A. Price
• 1959 Mervin J. Kelly
• 1958 John R. Suman
• 1957 Ben Moreell
  Ben Moreell
  Admiral Ben Moreell was the chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks and of the Civil Engineer Corps. Best known to the American public as the Father of the Navy's Seabees, Admiral Ben Moreell's life spanned eight decades, two world wars, a great depression and the evolution of the...
  
  
• 1956 Philip Sporn
  Philip Sporn
  Philip Sporn was an Austrian electrical engineer known for his work as the president and chief executive officer of the American Gas and Electric Company. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "contributions to the art of economical and dependable power generation and transmission".- References :...
  
  
• 1955 Harry Alonzo Winne
• 1954 William Embry Wrather
  William Embry Wrather
  William Embry Wrather was an American geologist. He was born on a farm near Brandenburg in Meade County, Kentucky on January 20, 1883. He died in his home in Washington, DC on Thursday, November 28, 1963. He was the only son of Richard Anselm and Glovy Washington Wrather...
  
  
• 1953 Benjamin F. Fairless
• 1952 Ervin George Bailey
• 1951 Vannevar Bush
  Vannevar Bush
  Vannevar Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project, the founding of Raytheon, and the idea of the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer...
  
  
• 1950 Walter H. Aldridge
• 1949 Charles M. Allen
• 1948 Theodore von Karman
  Theodore von Karman
  Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization...
  
  
• 1947 Lewis Warrington Chubb
• 1946 Zay Jeffries
• 1945 John Lucian Savage
  John L. Savage
  John Lucian Savage was an American civil engineer. He is best known for supervising the design and construction of the Hoover Dam, Shasta Dam and Grand Coulee Dam in the United States along with surveying for the future Three Gorges Dam in China...
  
  
• 1944 Charles F. Kettering
• 1943 Willis Rodney Whitney
  Willis Rodney Whitney
  Willis Rodney Whitney was an American chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company.- Early life and studies :...
  
  
• 1942 Everette Lee DeGolyer
  Everette Lee DeGolyer
  Everette Lee DeGolyer . was a prominent oilman, geophysicist and philanthropist in Dallas...
  
  
• 1941 Ralph Budd
  Ralph Budd
  Ralph Budd was an American railroad executive.-Early life:One of six children of John and Mary Budd, Ralph was born on a farm near Waterloo, Iowa on August 20, 1879...
  
  
• 1940 Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld (posthumous)
• 1939 Frank Baldwin Jewett
• 1938 Paul Dyer Merica
• 1937 Arthur Newell Talbot
  Arthur Newell Talbot
  Arthur Newell Talbot was an American civil engineer. He made many contributions to several engineering fields including structures, sewage management, and education. He is considered to be a pioneer in the field of reinforced concrete.-Early life and education:Talbot was born on October 21, 1857...
  
  
• 1936 William Frederick Durand
• 1935 Frank Julian Sprague (posthumous)
• 1934 John Ripley Freeman
  John Ripley Freeman
  John Ripley Freeman was an American civil and hydraulic engineer. Freeman was born in West Bridgton, Maine and received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1876...
  
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• 1933 Daniel Cowan Jackling
• 1931 David Watson Taylor
• 1930 Ralph Modjeski
  Ralph Modjeski
  Ralph Modjeski was a Polish-born American civil engineer who achieved prominence as a pre-eminent bridge designer in the United States.-Life:...
  
  
• 1929 Herbert Clark Hoover
• 1928 John Joseph Carty
• 1927 Elmer Ambrose Sperry
  Elmer Ambrose Sperry
  Elmer Ambrose Sperry was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, most famous as co-inventor, with Herman Anschütz-Kaempfe of the gyrocompass.Sperry was born at Cincinnatus, New York, United States of America...
  
  
• 1926 Edward Dean Adams
• 1925 John Frank Stevens
  John Frank Stevens
  John Frank Stevens was an American engineer who built the Great Northern Railway in the United States and was chief engineer on the Panama Canal between 1905 and 1907.- Biography :...
  
  
• 1924 Ambrose Swasey
  Ambrose Swasey
  Ambrose Swasey was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Worcester R. Warner he co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company....
  
  
• 1923 Guglielmo Marconi
  Guglielmo Marconi
  Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...
  
  
• 1922 Charles P. E. Schneider
• 1921 Sir Robert Hadfield
  Robert Hadfield
  Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield, 1st Baronet FRS was an English metallurgist, noted for his 1882 discovery of manganese steel, one of the first steel alloys...
  
  
• 1920 Orville Wright
• 1919 Gen. George W. Goethals
• 1918 J. Waldo Smith
• 1917 Henry Marion Howe
• 1916 Elihu Thomson
  Elihu Thomson
  Elihu Thomson was an American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1915 James Douglas
  James Douglas (businessman)
  James S. Douglas was a Canadian mining engineer and businessman who introduced a number of metallurgical innovations in copper mining....
  
  
• 1914 John Edson Sweet
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• 1912 Robert Woolston Hunt
• 1911 Sir William Henry White
  William Henry White
  Sir William Henry White was a prolific British warship designer and Chief Constructor at the Admiralty....
  
  
• 1910 Alfred Nobel
  Alfred Nobel
  Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments...
  
  
• 1909 Charles Talbot Porter
• 1908 Thomas Alva Edison
• 1907 Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
  
  
• 1906 George Westinghouse
  George Westinghouse
  George Westinghouse, Jr was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system...
  
  
• 1905 Lord Kelvin
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• 1902 John Fritz