American Welding Society - Awards Programs

2011 AWARD WINNERS

Comfort A. Adams Lecture Award
   Dr. Øystein Grong

Adams Memorial Membership Award
   Dr. Bryan A. Chin

Howard E. Adkins Memorial Instructor
Membership Award
   Richard J. Hutchison

Kenneth L. Brown Memorial Safety and
Health Award
   Dr. Winifred Palmer

Robert J. Conkling Memorial Award
First Place – High School
   Cambridge-Isani High School
   Cambridge, Minnesota

First Place-Post Secondary
   American River College
   Sacramento, California

A. F. Davis Silver Medal Award
Machine Design
   Yi Huang
   Dr. Yuming Zhang

Maintenance & Surfacing
   Richard J. Pargeter
   Dr. Mike Wright

Structure Design
  (No presentations this year.)

Dalton E. Hamilton Memorial CWI of the Year Award
   Robert F. Waite

W. H. Hobart Memorial Award
   Dr. Shu Shi
   Dr. John C. Lippold
   Dr. Jose E. Ramirez

Honorary Membership Award
   Dr. Ulrich Dilthey

International Meritorious Certificate Award
   Mike Bernasek

William Irrgang Memorial Award
   Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu

Charles H. Jennings Memorial Award
   Jeffrey A. Moulton
   Dr. David C. Weckman

James F. Lincoln Gold Medal Award
   Dr. Muralidhar Tumuluru

McKay-Helm Award
   Dr. Jeffrey W. Sowards
   Dr. Antonio J. Ramirez
   Dr. David W. Dickinson
   Dr. John C. Lippold

Professor Koichi Masubuchi Award
   Dr. Motomichi Yamamoto

Samuel Wylie Miller Memorial Medal Award
   Dr. Tomas A. Siewert

National Meritorious Award
   Bruce P. Albrecht
   John M. Stropki

Robert L. Peaslee Memorial Brazing Award
   H. Wang
   S. Xue
   W. Chen
   X. Liu
   J. Pan

Plummer Memorial Education Lecture Award
   Timothy W. Lawrence

Private Sector Instructor Membership Award
   No presentation this year.

Robotic and Automatic Arc Welding Award
   Jean-Paul Boillot

Warren F. Savage Memorial Award
   Dr. Jeremy L. Caron
   Dr. Christoph Heinze
   Dr. Christopher Schwenk
   Dr. Michael Rethmeier
   Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu
   Dr. John C. Lippold

Silver Quill Editorial Achievement Award
   No presentation this year.

William Spraragen Memorial Award
   Dr. David Tordonato
   Dr. Juan Carolos Madeni
   Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu
   Dr. Stephen K. Liu
   Dr. Patricio F. Mendez

R. D. Thomas Memorial Award
   John O. Milewski

Elihu Thomson Resistance Welding Award
   William Brafford

George E. Willis Award
   Allen W. Sindel

For information regarding the AWS National Awards Program, contact:

Wendy Sue Reeve
Senior Manager
Award Programs and Administrative Support
wreeve@aws.org
550 N.W. LeJeune Road, Miami, Florida 33126
1-800-443-9353 x 293, email