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Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....

1880-1882: Robert Henry Thurston
Robert Henry Thurston
Robert Henry Thurston was the first professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology . There he established Stevens’ mechanical engineering curriculum. Historians credit Thurston with establishing the first US mechanical engineering laboratory for conducting funded research...
1883-1884: E. D. Leavitt
Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr.
Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr. , also known as E. D. Leavitt, was a noted American mechanical engineer best known for his steam engine designs....
1884-1885: John Edison Sweet
John Edison Sweet
John Edison Sweet was an American mechanical engineer who built the first micrometer caliper in 1873, for making tools, and who invented the “straight line” engine. He was a key founder of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1880 and ASME’s third president...
1885-1886: J. E. Holloway
1886-1887: Coleman Sellers
1887-1888: George Herman Babcock
George Herman Babcock
George Herman Babcock was an American inventor. He and Stephen Wilcox co-invented a safer water tube steam boiler, and founded the Babcock & Wilcox boiler company....
1888-1889: Horace See
1889-1890: Henry R. Towne
Henry R. Towne
Henry Robinson Towne was an American mechanical engineer and businessman.-Early life:Henry R. Towne was the son of John Henry and Maria T. Towne. He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1862, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, but did not complete a degree...
1890-1891: Oberlin Smith
Oberlin Smith
Oberlin Smith was an American engineer who published one of the earliest works dealing with magnetic recording in 1888. In an article that appeared in the British magazine - Electrical World, he suggested the use of permanent magnetic impressions for the recording of sound...
1891-1892: Robert W. Hunt
1892-1893: Charles H. Loring
1893-1894: Eckley B. Coxe
1894-1895: E. F. C. Davis
1895-1896: Charles E. Billings
Charles E. Billings
Charles Ethan Billings was an American inventor.He was born in Weathersfield, Vermont, the son of Ethan F. and Clarissa M. Billings...
1896-1897: John Fritz
1897-1898: Worcester R. Warner
Worcester Reed Warner
Worcester Reed Warner was an American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Ambrose Swasey he cofounded the Warner & Swasey Company.-Biographical sketch:...
1898-1899: Charles Wallace Hunt
1899-1900: George W. Melville
1900-1901: Charles H. Morgan
1901-1902: Samuel T. Wellman
Samuel T. Wellman
Samuel Thomas Wellman, was an American steel industry pioneer, industrialist, and prolific inventor. Wellman was a close friend of electrical pioneer George Westinghouse, and Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel described Samuel T. Wellman as "the man who did more than any other living person in...
1902-1903: Edwin Reynolds
1903-1904: James M. Dodge
1904-1905: 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....
1905-1906: John R. Freeman
1906-1907: Frederick W. Taylor
1907-1908: F. R. Hutton
1908-1909: Minard L. Holman
1909-1910: Jesse M. Smith
1910-1911: 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...
1911-1912: E.D. Meier
1912-1913: Alex. C. Humphreys
1913-1914: W. F. M. Goss
1914-1915: James Hartness
James Hartness
James Hartness was an American inventor; a mechanical engineer; an entrepreneur who mentored other inventors to develop their machine tool products and create a thriving industrial center in southeastern Vermont; an amateur astronomer who fostered the construction of telescopes by amateurs in his...
1915-1916: John A. Brashear
1916-1917: David S. Jacobus
1917-1918: Ira N. Hollis
1918-1919: Charles T. Main
1919-1920: Mortimer E. Cooley
1920-1921: Fred J. Miller
1921-1922: Edwin S. Carman
1922-1923: Dexter S. Kimball
1923-1924: John L. Harrington
1924-1925: Fred R. Low
1925-1926: Wm. F. Durand
1926-1927: Wm. L. Abbot
1927-1928: Charles M. Schwab
Charles M. Schwab
Charles Michael Schwab was an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world....
1928-1929: Alex Dow
Alex Dow
Alex Dow was a Scottish-born US engineer.Alex Dow was born in Scotland in 1862. He emigrated to the US in 1882.In 1893, as a result of Hazen Pingree's efforts to break the power of corporations over Detroit City politics, Detroit built a municipally-owned power plant...
1929-1930: Elmer A. Sperry
1930-1931: Charles Piez
1931-1932: Roy V. Wright
1932-1933: Conrad N. Lauer
1933-1934: A. A. Potter
1934: Paul Doty
1934-1936: Ralph E. Flanders
Ralph Flanders
Ralph Edward Flanders was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island, became an apprentice first as a machinist, then as a draftsman, before training as a mechanical engineer...
1936-1937: Wm. Batt
1937-1938: James H. Herron
1938-1939: Harvey N. Davis
1939-1940: Alexander G. Christie
1940-1941: Warren H. McBryde
1941-1942: Wm. A. Hanley
1942-1943: James W. Parker
1943-1944: H. V. Coes
1944-1945: R. M. Gates
1945-1946: Alex D. Bailey
1946-1947: D. R. Yarnall
1947-1948: Eugene W. O'Brien
1948-1949: E. G. Bailey
1949-1950: James Todd
1950-1951: James I. Cunningham
1951-1952: J. Calvin Brown
1952-1953: R. J. S. Pigott
1953-1954: Frederick S. Blackall Jr.
1954-1955: L. K. Sillcox
1955-1956: D. W. R. Morgan
1956-1957: Joseph W. Barker
1957-1958: Wm. F. Ryan
1958-1959: James N. Landis
1959-1960: Glenn B. Warren
1960-1961: Walker Lee Cisler
Walker Lee Cisler
Walker Lee Cisler was a noted American engineer, business executive, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering....
1961-1962: Wm. H. Bryne
1962-1963: Clifford H. Shumaker
1963-1964: Ronald B. Smith
1964-1965: D. Elmer Bergman
1965-1966: Henry N. Muller
1966-1967: James H. Harlow
1967-1968: Louis N. Rowley Jr.
1968-1969: George F. Habach
1969-1970: Donald E. Marlowe
1970-1971: Allen F. Rhodes
1971-1972: Kenneth A. Roe
1972-1973: Richard G. Folsom
1973-1974: Daniel C. Drucker
1974-1975: Richard B. Robertson
1975-1976: Charles L. Tutt Jr.
Charles L. Tutt Jr.
Charles Leaming Tutt Jr. was a well known figure in the history of Colorado Springs. Born in Coronado, California, he was the eldest son of Charles L. Tutt , his granthfather Charles L. Tutt was a notable miner...
1976-1977: Earle C. Miller
1977-1978: Stothe P. Kezios
1978-1979: Arval L. Lewis
1979-1980: Donald N. Zwiep
1980-1981: Charles E. Jones
1981-1982: Robert B. Gaither
1982-1983: Serge Gratch
1983-1984: Frank M. Scott
1984-1985: George Kotnick
1985-1986: Leroy S. Fletcher
1986-1987: Nancy D. Fitzroy
1987-1988: Richard Rosenberg
1988-1989: Ernest L. Daman
1989-1990: Charles O. Velzy
1990-1991: Arthur E. Bergles
1991-1992: Nathan H. Hurt
1992-1993: Joseph A. Falcon
1993-1994: John H. Fernandes
1994-1995: Paul J. Torpey
1995-1996: Daniel T. Koenig
1996-1997: Richard J. Goldstein
1997-1998: Keith B. Thayer
1998-1999: Winfred M. Phillips
1999-2000: Robert E. Nickell
2000-2001: John R. Parker
2001-2002: William A. Weiblen
2002-2003: Susan H. Skemp
2003-2004: Reginald I. Vachon
2004-2005: Harry Armen
2005-2006: Gene E. Feigel
2006-2007: Terry E. Shoup
2007-2008: Sam Y. Zamrik
2008-2009: Thomas M. Barlow
2009-2010: Amos E. Holt
2010-2011: Robert T. Simmons
2011-Current: Victoria A. Rockwell

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