Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
| ASME Unit: | Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) |
| Date Established: | 2011 |
| Achievement: | The award recognizes a young manufacturing researcher under 40 with potential for significant fundamental contributions to the science and technology of manufacturing processes. |
| Limitations: | Nominees must not have reached their 40th birthday at the date of submission of the nomination deadline. Nominees must be an ASME member. Nominees cannot claim the same contribution for similar awards. |
| Nomination Deadline: | 2/1 |
| Form of Award: | $1000 |
| Frequency of Award: | Annual |
| Administrative: | Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) |
| Level of Award: | Division |
| Selected By: | Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) Honors Committee |
| Selecting Process: | The Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) Honors Committee solicits and reviews nominations from all ASME members. Recipients are selected by the MED Honors Committee and endorsed by the MED Executive Committee. Required nomination documents are: ASME Achievement Nomination Form (downloadable from the left side on this page), four reference letters (nomination letter plus three additional letters), and an up-to-one page summary on ASME MED-related involvement and contributions. |
| Funding: | An endowment |
| Date Created: | 2/14/2011 |
| Date Modified: | 1/20/2016 |
| Contact Name: | Jingjing Li |
| Contact Email: | jul572@psu.edu |
Winners of the Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
| 2023 | Cunjiang Yu |
| 2022 | Chenhui Shao |
| 2021 | Dong Lin |
| 2020 | Alaa Elwany |
| 2019 | Jingjing Li, Pennsylvania State University |
| 2018 | Chris Yuan, Case Western University |
| 2017 | Sameh H. Tawfick, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
| 2016 | Salil Desai, North Carolina A&T State University |
| 2015 | Seok Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2014 | Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, University of Iowa |
| 2013 | Nicholas Fang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2012 | Gary Cheng, Purdue University |
| 2011 | Cheng Sun Ph.D., Northwestern University |