American Welding Society - Awards Programs

2012 AWARD WINNERS

Comfort A. Adams Lecture Award
   Dr. Sindo Kou

Adams Memorial Membership Award
   Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu

Howard E. Adkins Memorial Instructor
Membership Award
   Timothy L. Gill
   Scott H. Sutherland

Kenneth L. Brown Memorial Safety and
Health Award
   David A. Fink

Robert J. Conkling Memorial Award
First Place – High School
   Pioneer Technology Center
   Ponca City, Oklahoma

First Place-Post Secondary
   Eastern Wyoming College
   Torrington, Wyoming

A. F. Davis Silver Medal Award
Machine Design
   No presentations this year.

Maintenance & Surfacing
   Dr. Paul S. Korinko
   Thad M. Adams
   Stephen H. Malene
   S.C.D. Gill
   John Smugeresky

Structure Design
   No presentations this year.

Distinguished Welder Award
   Rich "Sam" Samanich
   Craig W. Tichelar

Dalton E. Hamilton Memorial CWI of the Year Award
   Jenord Alston

W. H. Hobart Memorial Award
   Elizabeth Drexler
   Dr. Philippe P. Darcis
   Christopher N. McCowan
   Dr. Jeffrey W. Sowards
   J. David McColskey
   Dr. Thomas A. Siewer

Honorary Membership Award
   Emily Stover DeRocco
   Jennifer M. McNelly

International Meritorious Certificate Award
   Warren Miglietti
   Klaus Middeldorf

William Irrgang Memorial Award
   Kenneth R. Stockton

Charles H. Jennings Memorial Award
   Dr. Yi Huang
   Dr. YuMing Zhang

James F. Lincoln Gold Medal Award
   No presentation this year.

McKay-Helm Award
   No presentation this year.

Professor Koichi Masubuchi Award
   Dr. Seung Hwan C. Park

Samuel Wylie Miller Memorial Medal Award
   Edwin R. Szumachowski

National Meritorious Award
   Donald B. DeCorte
   Jenny McCall

Robert L. Peaslee Memorial Brazing Award
   Ali Nasiri
   Dr. Liqun Li
   Dr. Sookhwan Kim
   Y. (Norman) Zhou
   David C. Weckman
   Tam C. Nguyen

Plummer Memorial Education Lecture Award
   Dr. Yoni Adonyi

Private Sector Instructor Membership Award
   Mark Trevithick

Robotic and Automatic Arc Welding Award
   Next year for recognition is 2013.

Warren F. Savage Memorial Award
   Dr. Sindo Kou
   Dr. Chaowalit Limmaneevichitr
   Dr. Peng-Sheng Wei

William Spraragen Memorial Award
   Dr. Jeffrey W. Sowards
   Dr. Dong Liang
   Boian T. Alexandrow
   Gerald S. Frankel
   Dr. John C. Lippold

R. D. Thomas Memorial Award
   John W. Elmer

Elihu Thomson Resistance Welding Award
   Muralidhar Tumuluru

George E. Willis Award
   Dr. Bryan A. Chin

For information regarding the AWS National
Awards Program, contact:

Wendy Sue Reeve
Senior Manager
Award Programs and Administrative Support
wreeve@aws.org
8669 Doral Blvd., Suite 130, Doral, Fl 33166
1-800-443-9353 x 293, email