Edwin F. Church Medal
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) established The Edwin F. Church Medal in 1972. Every year it is awarded to "an individual who has rendered eminent service in increasing the value, importance and attractiveness of mechanical engineering education." [1] The ASME intends the Medal to represent Education in a very broad sense: This includes any aspect of mechanical engineering communicate via universities, technical institutes, professional society educational activities, continuing education programs of professional societies and private groups, in-house professional development programs of industrial concerns and governmental agencies, programmed learning and self-instruction systems. This means the nominees need not be professional educators.
A bequest from Edwin F. Church, Jr. (1879-1964), an ASME Member and professor of mechanical engineering and head of the department at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn established the Medal.
Recipients of the Edwin F. Church Medal
- 1973 Wilbur R. Leopold
- 1974 Hobart A. Weaver
- 1975 Harry Conn
- 1976 Frank W. Von Flue
- 1977 Not awarded
- 1978 Not awarded
- 1979 Kenneth A. Roe
- 1980 Dennis K. Bushnell
- 1981 Neal P. Jeffries
- 1982 Clinton H. Britt
- 1983 Not awarded
- 1984 Milo Price
- 1985 Emil L. Martinec
- 1986 Not awarded
- 1987 Garland H. Duncan
- 1988 Dale E. Klein
- 1989 Adolph T. Molin
- 1990 James R. Welty
- 1991 Joseph A. Falcon
- 1992 Stephen Juhasz
- 1993 Larry C. Oyen
- 1994 Avram Bar-Cohen
- 1995 Not awarded
- 1996 Not awarded
- 1997 Dean Kamen
- 1998 Allan D. Kraus
- 1999 Woodie C. Flowers
- 2000 John H. Lienhard
- 2001 Frank Kreith
- 2002 William S. Hammack
- 2003 Devendra P. Garg
- 2004 David Lavery
- 2005 Vincent Wilczynski
- 2006 Not awarded
- 2007 Not awarded
- 2008 Not awarded
- 2009 Wilbur J. Marner
- 2010 Not awarded
- 2011 Ramesh K. Agarwal
- 2012 Kenneth S. Ball
- 2013 William M. Worek
- 2014 John W. Cipolla
- 2015 William J. Wepfer