Representing the interest of engineers across America

  • The National Engineering Award

    Established in 1979, the National Engineering Award is presented on behalf of the engineering profession to those engineers whose leadership and accomplishments have particularly benefited humanity. This award may be jointly presented to two or more engineers if a team effort is worthy of recognition.

    Past Recipients:


        

    1979

    Neil A. Armstrong

    1980

    Harold Brown

    1981

    Donald Burnham

    1982

    W. Kenneth Davis

    1983

    George M. Low

    1984

    William H. Pickering

    1985

    Martin Goland

    1986

    Erich Bloch

    1987

    Robert N. Noyce

    1988

    Simon Ramo

    1989

    Kenneth A. Roe

    1990

    James C. Fletcher

    1991

    Norman R. Augustine

    1992

    Bonnie J. Dunbar

    1993

    Ruben F. Mettler

    1994

    Roy F. Weston

    1995

    Walter E. Morrow, Jr.

    1996

    Daniel Tellep

    1997

    Thomas B. Sheridan

    1998

    Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.

    1999

    Winfred M. Phillips

    2000

    Duncan T. Moore

    2001

    Edmund O. Schweitzer

    2002

    G. Wayne Clough

    2003

    Mary R. Anderson-Rowland

    2004

    Daniel R. Benigni

    2005

    E. Walter LeFevre

    2006

    Harold (Bud) E. Nelson

    2007

    W. Gene Corley

    2008 Donald B. Chaffin
    2009 Arden L. Bement, Ph.D.

    2010

    Charles M. Vest