March 1 is the Deadline for Four ASME Awards
March 1 is the Deadline for Four ASME Awards
ASME Honors and Awards is accepting nominations for four major honors — the Holley Medal, the Henry Hess Award, the Melville Medal, and the Worcester Reed Warner Medal — through March 1.
Established in 1924, the Holley Medal commemorates Alexander Lyman Holley, a charter member of ASME who chaired the first meeting of ASME’s founders in 1880 and was the principal author of the Society’s first by-laws. The award is presented to an individual who has accomplished a great and timely public benefit through great and unique acts of an engineering nature.
Individuals submitting nominations are encouraged to base their recommendation on the brilliance of the achievement, which should be of great public importance and worthy of gratitude from the general public as well admiration from the engineering profession. Former recipients include Donna L. Shirley, former manager of the Mars Exploration Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Roy J. Plunkett, who discovered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin; and Soichiro Honda, engineer, industrialist and founder of Honda Motors.
The Holley Medal consists of a $1,000 honorarium, a vermeil medal and a certificate. For more information on the award, to see the complete list of past recipients, and to find out how to submit a nomination, visit www.asme.org/about-asme/participate/honors-awards/achievement-awards/holley-medal.
The Henry Hess Award, one of ASME’s oldest awards, is given for best original technical paper presented to or published by the Society by an ASME member or student member under the age of 35 at the time of submission. The paper must have been presented or published at least two years prior to the bestowal of the award.
One notable winner of the Henry Hess Award is James Edward Colgate, currently the Allen and Johnnie Breed University Professor of Design at Northwestern University. Dr. Colgate received his award in 1995 for his paper titled, “Coordinate Transformations and Logical Operations for Minimizing Conservativeness in Coupled Stability Criteria.”
The Henry Hess Award consists of a $2,500 honorarium, a certificate and travel supplement. Joint authorship of papers is permitted, provided that all authors meet the award requirements. The paper must be recommended by a review committee or qualified individual. For more information or to submit a nomination, visit www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/literature-awards/henry-hess-award.
The Melville Medal, which was established in 1914 with an endowment from Admiral George W. Melville, recognizes the best original scientific contribution that has been published in an ASME journal during the preceding two calendar years. Encompassing all areas of mechanical engineering, this honor is bestowed by ASME on members for outstanding contributions made toward increasing technical knowledge, improving scientific understanding, and/or achieving noteworthy engineering application.
The paper may have more than one author, but one of the authors must be a member of ASME. In 2013, the medal was awarded to four co-authors — Ahmed E.E. Khalil, Ashwani K. Gupta, Kenneth M. Bryden and Sang C. Lee — for the paper “Mixture Preparation Effects on Distributed Combustion for Gas Turbine Applications.”
Recipients of the Melville Medal will be awarded a $2,000 honorarium, a bronze medal, a certificate and travel supplement. To learn more about the award or to submit a nomination, visit www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/literature-awards/melville-medal.
The Worcester Reed Warner Medal is awarded to an individual for outstanding contribution to the permanent literature of engineering in the form of single papers, treatises or books, or a series of papers that were written at least five years prior to being nominated.
The nominated contributions should contain progressive ideas relating to engineering, scientific and industrial research associated with mechanical engineering; the design and operation of mechanical and associated equipment; industrial engineering or management, organization, operation, and the concomitants of each; or other related subjects.
One notable recipient of the Worcester Reed Warner Medal was Jacob P. Den Hartog, who was presented with the award in 1951. An electrical engineer at Westinghouse who became the assistant to Stephen P. Timoshenko, Hartog worked on a variety of vibration problems across the entire range of Westinghouse products and went on to write the influential textbook Mechanical Vibrations.
The Worcester Reed Warner Medal consists of a $2,000 honorarium, a vermeil medal and a certificate. For a list of the award’s other winners, or for more information on submitting a nomination, visit www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/literature-awards/worcester-reed-warner-medal.
Nominations for each of the awards are due to ASME Honors & Awards by March 1. To learn more about the ASME Honors & Awards Program, visit www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards.
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