The Washington Award 2010

Feb 2010.

Each year during the Chicagoland Engineers Week the prestigious Washington Award is conferred upon

 an engineer whose professional attainments have preeminently advanced the welfare of human kind

Presentation of the award is made at a joint banquet of the members and guests of the following professional engineering societies:

Western Society of Engineers (WSE)

American Institute of Mining (AIM)

Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (MPE)

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)

American Nuclear Society (ANS)

The WSE Washington Award website has a list of previous winners, 1919-2009, which includes:

• Herbert Hoover, 1919
• Orville Wright, 1927
• Charles F. Kettering, 1936
• Henry Ford, 1944
• Lillian Moller Gilbreth, 1954
• H.G. Rickover, 1970
• Dixy Lee Ray, 1978
• Neil Armstrong, 1980
• Stephen D. Bechtel, 1985
• John H. Sununu, 1990
• Wilson Greatbatch, 1996
• Donna Lee Shirley, 2000
• Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, 2001
• Richard J. Robbins 2002
• Eugene Cernan 2003
• Nick Holonyak 2004
• Robert S. Langer 2005
• Henry Petroski 2006
• Michael J. Birck 2007
• Dean Kamen, 2008

I am extremely pleased of course to have had my name added to this list on 19 Feb 2010 in Chicago.