Worcester Reed Warner Medal
The Worcester Reed Warner Medal is awarded to an individual for seminal contribution to the permanent literature of engineering. Single papers, treatises, books or series of papers, and digital media may be considered. Works should be highly influential to a generation of engineers, and not exclusively the result of a prolific career. Works considered may deal with progressive ideas relative to engineering; the design and operation of mechanical and associated equipment; industrial engineering or management organization, operation and the concomitants of each; and other subjects closely associated with the foregoing.
To qualify as having permanent value, any paper or treatise should not be less than five (5) years old.
Worcester Reed Warner, Charter Member and Sixteenth President of the Society, established the medal by bequest in 1930.
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| Form of Award: | $2000, vermeil medal and certificate |
| Limitation(s): | Literature must be at least 5 years old |
| Administrative Responsibility: | General Awards Committee (GAC) |
| Nomination Deadline: | February 1 |
| Email: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
Worcester Reed Warner Medalists
| 2024 | Shi-Wei Ricky Lee |
| 2023 | David L. McDowell |
| 2022 | Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal |
| 2021 | Hanqing Jiang |
| 2020 | Marco Amabili |
| 2019 | Arun R. Srinivasa |
| 2018 | Martin Ostoja-Starzewski |
| 2017 | Michael P. Païdoussis |
| 2016 | Isaac Elishakoff |
| 2015 | John H. Lau |
| 2014 | Vigor Yang |
| 2013 | Singiresu S. Rao |
| 2012 | János M. Beér |
| 2009 | David G. Lilley |
| 2008 | Ashwani K. Gupta |
| 2007 | Portonovo Ayyaswamy |
| 2006 | James G. Simmonds |
| 2004 | Ephraim Suhir |
| 2002 | Tsu-Wei Chou |
| 2001 | Budugur Lakshminarayana |
| 2000 | Avram Bar-Cohen |
| 1999 | Yogesh Jaluria |
| 1998 | Thomas J. R. Hughes |
| 1997 | Zdenek P. Bazant |
| 1996 | Adrian Bejan |
| 1995 | Frank P. Incropera |
| 1994 | George Springer |
| 1993 | Frank J. Rizzo |
| 1992 | J. Narasimh Reddy |
| 1991 | Bruno A. Boley |
| 1990 | J. Tinsley Oden |
| 1989 | Lawrence E. Malvern |
| 1988 | Richard M. Christensen |
| 1987 | Jack P. Holman |
| 1986 | Ephraim M. Sparrow |
| 1985 | Richard H. Gallagher |
| 1984 | Yuan-Cheng Fung |
| 1983 | Allan D. Kraus |
| 1982 | Herbert Kolsky |
| 1981 | Frank Kreith |
| 1980 | Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz |
| 1979 | Darle W. Dudley |
| 1978 | James H. Potter |
| 1977 | Joseph E. Shigley |
| 1976 | Dennis G. Shepherd |
| 1975 | Philip G. Hodge, Jr. |
| 1974 | Victor L. Streeter |
| 1973 | Max Mark Frocht |
| 1972 | Burgess H. Jennings |
| 1971 | Stephen H. Crandall |
| 1970 | Wilhelm Flugge |
| 1969 | Hans W. Leipmann |
| 1968 | Merhyle F. Spotts |
| 1967 | Nicholas J. Hoff |
| 1966 | Eric A. Farber |
| 1965 | Ascher H. Shapiro |
| 1964 | Oscar J. Horger |
| 1963 | Frederick Morse |
| 1962 | Virgil M. Faires |
| 1961 | C. L. W. Trinks |
| 1960 | Lloyd H. Donnell |
| 1959 | Daniel Glasstone |
| 1958 | Harold J. Rose |
| 1957 | William Prager |
| 1956 | J. Keith Louden |
| 1955 | Howard S. Bean |
| 1954 | Joseph Keenan |
| 1953 | William McAdams |
| 1952 | Max Jakob |
| 1951 | Jacob P. Den Hartog |
| 1950 | Orlan W. Boston |
| 1949 | Fred B. Seely |
| 1948 | Edward S. Cole |
| 1947 | Arpad L. Nadai |
| 1945 | Joseph M. Juran |
| 1944 | Earle Buckingham |
| 1943 | Igor I. Sikorsky |
| 1942 | Fred H. Colvin |
| 1941 | Richard Southwell |
| 1940 | William Gregory |
| 1939 | Rupen Eksergian |
| 1938 | Lawford H. Fry |
| 1937 | Clarence Hirschfeld |
| 1936 | Charles M. Allen |
| 1935 | Stephen P. Timoshenko |
| 1934 | Ralph E. Flanders |
| 1933 | Dexter S. Kimball |