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Awards Guide
The American Association of Engineering Societies is dedicated to furthering the public's awareness of engineering. AAES recognizes engineers and journalists for their achievements in furthering this cause by presenting annual awards.
Below is a list of AAES awards. You may click on the award to get more information on it as well as a listing of past recipients or you can just go directly to the nomination form by clicking on the VOTE icon.
The 2002 nomination cycle runs from October 1 to December 31, 2002
AAES Awards:
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The John Fritz Medal
The Fritz Medal, referred to as the highest award in the engineering profession, is presented each year for scientific or industrial achievement in any field of pure or applied science. It was established in 1902 as a memorial to the great engineer whose name it bears.
Nominations are due by November 30, 2001. They may be made by any individual and/or organization to the AAES Awards Committee and will be approved by the AAES Board of Governors. This award may be presented to more than one individual in any given year, however, the AAES Awards Committee reserves the right not to submit a nominee for this award if, in its opinion, any nominee fails to meet the criteria established for receipt of this award. Nominations will be considered by the AAES Awards Committee for two award cycles. As a condition of receiving the award, the awardee(s) must be present at the 23rd Annual AAES Awards Ceremony & Banquet to be held on May 6, 2002 in Washington, DC.
Past Recipients:
| 2002 | Daniel S. Goldin |
| 2001 | Paul C. W. Chu |
| 2000 | John W. Fisher |
| 1999 | George H. Heilmeier |
| 1998 | Ivan A. Getting |
| 1997 | Arthur E. Humphrey |
| 1996 | George N. Hatsopoulos |
| 1995 | Lynn S. Beedle |
| 1994 | Hoyt C. Hotte |
| 1993 | Gordon E. Moore |
| 1992 | Serge Gratch |
| 1991 | Hunter Rouse |
| 1990 | Gordon A. Cain |
| 1989 | Robert N. Noyce |
| 1988 | Ralph B. Beck |
| 1987 | Ralph Landau |
| 1986 | Simon Ramo |
| 1985 | Daniel C. Drucker |
| 1984 | Kenneth A. Roe |
| 1983 | Claude Elwood Shannon |
| 1982 | David Packard |
| 1981 | Ian MacGregor |
| 1980 | T. Louis Austin, Jr. |
| 1979 | Nathan M. Newark |
| 1978 | Robert G. Heitz |
| 1977 | George R. Brown |
| 1976 | Thomas O. Paine |
| 1975 | Manson Benedict |
| 1974 | H. I. Romnes |
| 1973 | Lyman Wilber |
| 1972 | William Webster |
| 1971 | Patrick E. Haggerty |
| 1970 | Glenn B. Warren |
| 1969 | Michael L. Haider |
| 1968 | Igor Ivan Sikorsky |
| 1967 | Walker L. Cisler |
| 1966 | Warren K. Lewis |
| 1965 | Frederick R. Kappel |
| 1964 | Lucius D. Clay |
| 1963 | Hugh L. Dryden |
| 1962 | Crawford H. Greenewalt |
| 1961 | Stephen D. Bechtel |
| 1960 | Gwilyn A. Price |
| 1959 | Mervin J. Kelly |
| 1958 | John R. Suman |
| 1957 | Ben Moreell |
| 1956 | Philip Sporn |
| 1955 | Harry Alonzo Winne |
| 1954 | William Embry Wrather |
| 1953 | Benjamin F. Fairless |
| 1952 | Ervin George Bailey |
| 1951 | Vannevar Bush |
| 1950 | Walter H. Aldridge |
| 1949 | Charles M. Allen |
| 1948 | Theodore Von Karman |
| 1947 | Lewis Warrington Chubb |
| 1946 | Zay Jeffries |
| 1945 | John Lucian Savage |
| 1944 | Charles F. Kettering |
| 1943 | Willis Rodney Whitney |
| 1942 | Everette Lee DeGolyer |
| 1941 | Ralph Budd |
| 1940 | Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld (posthumous) |
| 1939 | Frank Baldwin Jewett |
| 1938 | Paul Dyer Merica |
| 1937 | Arthur Newell Talbot |
| 1936 | William Frederick Durand |
| 1935 | Frank Julian Sprague (posthumous) |
| 1934 | John Ripley Freeman (posthumous ) |
| 1933 | Daniel Cowan Jackling |
| 1931 | David Watson Taylor |
| 1930 | Ralph Modjesk |
| 1929 | Herbert Clark Hoover |
| 1928 | John Joseph Carty |
| 1927 | Elmer Ambrose Sperry |
| 1926 | Edward Dean Adams |
| 1925 | John Frank Stevens |
| 1924 | Ambrose Swasey |
| 1923 | Guglielmo Marconi |
| 1922 | Charles P. E. Schneider |
| 1921 | Sir Robert A. Hadfield |
| 1920 | Orville Wright |
| 1919 | Gen. George W. Goethals |
| 1918 | J. Waldo Smith |
| 1917 | Henry Marion Howe |
| 1916 | Elihu Thompson |
| 1915 | James Douglas |
| 1914 | John Edson Sweet |
| 1913 | No award |
| 1912 | Robert Woolston Hunt |
| 1911 | Sir William Henry White |
| 1910 | Alfred Nobel |
| 1909 | Charles Talbot Porter |
| 1908 | Thomas Alva Edison |
| 1907 | Alexander Graham Bell |
| 1906 | George Westinghouse |
| 1905 | Lord Kelvin |
| 1904 | No award |
| 1903 | No award |
| 1902 | John Fritz |
The Kenneth Andrew Roe Award
The founding chairman of the American Association of Engineering Societies established the Kenneth Andrew Roe award in 1986 to honor the leadership and dedication to unity within the engineering community. This award recognizes those leaders within the engineering community who have made visible progress in promoting cooperation, understanding, and unity amongst the engineering societies located within the United States. The Board of Directors of Burns and Row Enterprises Inc. have endowed this award, which includes an honorarium.
Nominations are due by November 30, 2001. They may be made by any individual and/or organization to the AAES Awards Committee and will be approved by the AAES Board of Governors. This award may be presented to more than one individual in any given year, however, the AAES Awards Committee reserves the right not to submit a nominee for this award if, in its opinion, any nominee fails to meet the criteria established for receipt of this award. Nominations will be considered by the AAES Awards Committee for two award cycles. As a condition of receiving the award, the awardee(s) must be present at the 23rd Annual AAES Awards Ceremony & Banquet to be held on May 6, 2002 in Washington, DC.
Past Recipients:
| 2001 | Wm. A. Wulf |
| 2000 | Theodore W. Hissey, Jr. |
| 1999 | James Davis |
| 1998 | David Belden and James Poirot |
| 1997 | Richard Emmert |
| 1996 | William C. Salmon and Lionel Baldwin |
| 1995 | Ernest L. Daman and Neil A. Norman |
| 1994 | Albert A. Grant |
| 1993 | Eric Herz |
| 1992 | William J. Carroll |
| 1990 | Richard W. Karn |
| 1989 | John A. White |
| 1988 | Robert M. White |
| 1987 | James Y. Oldshue |
| 1986 | Nicholas J. Radel |
The Norm Augustine Award
For Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communications
Established in 1998, the Norm Augustine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communications is presented annually to an engineering who has demonstrated the capacity for communicating the excitement and wonder of engineering. The Award is to be conferred on those rare individuals who can speak with passion about engineering-its promise as well as its responsibility-so that the public may have a better understanding of engineering and a better appreciation for how engineers improve our quality of life.
The Augustine Award is named a for one of the titans of the engineering profession-Norm Augustine-whose leadership within the engineering community and service to society has established him as one our nation's greatest engineers.
Nominations are due by November 30, 2001. They may be made by any individual and/or organization to the AAES Awards Committee and will be approved by the AAES Board of Governors. This award may be presented to more than one individual in any given year, however, the AAES Awards Committee reserves the right not to submit a nominee for this award if, in its opinion, any nominee fails to meet the criteria established for receipt of this award. Nominations will be considered by the AAES Awards Committee for two award cycles. As a condition of receiving the award, the awardee(s) must be present at the 23rd Annual AAES Awards Ceremony & Banquet to be held on May 6, 2002 in Washington, DC.
Past Recipients:
| 2002 | Colonel Stephen J. Ressler, PhD & Colonel Eugene K. Ressler, PhD |
| 2001 | William Perry |
| 2000 | Neil Armstrong |
| 1999 | Norman R. Augustine |
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.
Nominations are due by November 30, 2001. They may be made by any individual and/or organization to the AAES Awards Committee and will be approved by the AAES Board of Governors. This award may be presented to more than one individual in any given year, however, the AAES Awards Committee reserves the right not to submit a nominee for this award if, in its opinion, any nominee fails to meet the criteria established for receipt of this award. Nominations will be considered by the AAES Awards Committee for two award cycles. As a condition of receiving the award, the awardee(s) must be present at the 23rd Annual AAES Awards Ceremony & Banquet to be held on May 6, 2002 in Washington, DC.
Past Recipients:
| 2002 | G. Wayne Clough, PhD. |
| 2001 | Edmund O. Schweitzer |
| 2000 | Duncan Moore |
| 1999 | Winfred Phillips |
| 1998 | Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. |
| 1997 | Thomas B. Sheridan |
| 1996 | Daniel Tellep |
| 1995 | Walter E. Morrow, Jr. |
| 1994 | Roy F. Weston |
| 1993 | Ruben F. Mettler |
| 1992 | Bonnie J. Dunbar |
| 1991 | Norm R. Augustine |
| 1990 | James C. Fletcher |
| 1989 | Kenneth A. Roe |
| 1988 | Simon Ramo |
| 1987 | Robert N. Noyce |
| 1986 | Erich Bloch |
| 1985 | Martin Goland |
| 1984 | William H. Pickering |
| 1983 | George M. Low |
| 1982 | W. Kenneth Davis |
| 1981 | Donald Burnham |
| 1980 | Harold Brown |
| 1979 | Neil A. Armstrong |
AAES Chairs' Award
Established in 1980, the AAES Chair's Award is presented to a distinguished American whose leadership and dedication to the engineering community have significantly contributed to the advancement of the engineering profession in the United States.
Nominations for the Chair's Award shall be made by the AAES Chair at the end of his/her term to be awarded the following year after approval of the selection by the AAES Board of Governors.
Past Recipients:
| 2002 | Victoria A. Rockwell |
| 2001 | Sheila E. Widnall |
| 2000 | W. Wayne Allen |
| 1999 | Robert W. Lucky |
| 1998 | John H. Gibbons |
| 1997 | Daniel Goldin |
| 1996 | Russell Sasag |
| 1995 | John D. Rockefeller and Arati Prabhakar |
| 1994 | Joseph Bordogna |
| 1993 | George E. Brown |
| 1992 | David T. Kearns |
| 1991 | James D. Watkins |
| 1990 | Don Ritter |
| 1989 | John Sununu |
| 1988 | Joseph M. Juran and Lloyd M. Thorndyke |
| 1987 | E.R. Heidberg III |
| 1986 | Betsey Ancker-Johnson |
| 1984 | Donald E. Procknow |
| 1983 | Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. |
| 1982 | George A. Keyworth II |
| 1981 | Robert A Frosch |
| 1980 | John D. Bulkeley |
AAES Engineering Journalism Award
The Engineering Journalism Award recognizes outstanding reporting of an event or issue that furthers public understanding of engineering, will be given in one of these three categories: daily newspapers, general circulation print media, and broadcast radio or television.
"Engineering affects every facet of our daily lives however, few people know exactly what engineers do," explained Tom Price, executive director of the AAES. "Many innovative advances are engineering feats. That is why it is imperative for the public to be aware of engineering's impact and importance."
Nominations for 2002 should be sent to the American Association of Engineering Societies, and must be postmarked no later than December 31, 2002. Nominations must be articles published in English between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2002. Nominations are welcome from reporters, editors, publishers, and members of the engineering community.
Past Recipients:
| 2002 | Stuart F. Brown, FORTUNE Magazine |
| 2001 | Jonathan Knight, Knight-Ridder News Service |
| 2000 | Joel Achenbach, Washington Post |
| 1999 | William Allen |
The Palladium Medal
The Joan Hodges Queneau Palladium Medal award honors an engineer's outstanding achievement in environmental conservation. The medal underscores the vital importance of mutual understanding between conservationists and engineering professionals, which is present in the award's six-member selection committee. The American Association of Engineering Societies appoints three of the voting members, and the National Audubon Society appoints the remaining three members. The Board of Directors of the National Audubon Society makes the final selection.
The recipient for the Palladium Medal will be announced at the 23rd Annual AAES Awards Ceremony and Banquet to be held on May 6, 2002 in Washington, DC. An individual or group of individuals may propose candidates. The nomination should be in the form of a letter of not more than four pages, accompanied by the nominee's full curriculum vitae and publications list. Examples of key publications or other supporting materials are encouraged.
Past Recipients:
| 2002 | William J. Carroll | 2001 | No Award Given |
| 2000 | Stuart J. Appelbaum and The Restudy Team | 1997-1999 | No Award Given |
| 1996 | Jared Leigh Cohen |
| 1995 | Robert H. Williams |
| 1994 | Luna B. Leopold |
| 1992 | Hsieh Wen Shen |
| 1991 | M. Kent Loftin |
| 1990 | Joseph T. Ling |
| 1989 | James L. Baker |
| 1988 | Barney L. Capehart |
| 1987 | Thomas K. MacVicar |
| 1986 | Kenneth R. Daniel |
| 1985 | William A. Jester |
| 1984 | Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis and Gen. John W. Morris |
| 1983 | Roy W. Hann, Jr. |
| 1977 | H. Beecher Chambury |