Adams Memorial Membership Award
YuMing Zhang

Howard E. Adkins Memorial
Instructor Membership Award
Jimmy Kee
James H. Sullivan

1st Place — Post Secondary
Southeast Community College-Milford
Milford, Nebraska

A.F. Davis Silver Medal Award

Maintenance and Surfacing
William A. Bruce
Alan S. Beckett

Structure Design
Chad S. Kusko
John N. DuPont
Arnold R. Marder

Dalton E. Hamilton Memorial
CWI of the Year Award
James P. Hennessy

W.H. Hobart Memorial Award
Odd M. Akselsen
Gisle Rørvik
Per Egil Kvaale
Casper Van Der Eijk

Honorary Membership Award
Louis DeFreitas
Glen R. Edwards

International Meritorious
Certificate Award
Bertil Pekkari
Shinsuke Tsutsumi

William Irrgang Memorial Award
Lee G. Kvidahl

Charles H. Jennings Memorial Award
Matthew G. Collins
Antonio Jose Ramirez
John C. Lippold

McKay-Helm Award
Chad A. Lensing
Yeong-Do Park
Iman Soerjadrama Maroef
David L. Olson

National Meritorious Award
Harvey R. Castner
James R. "Rusty" Franklin

Plummer Memorial
Educational Lecture Award
Ernest D. Levert, Sr.

Private Sector Instructor
Membership Award
Jay J. Jones

Robotic and Automatic
Arc Welding Award
Chester L. Woodman, Jr.

Safety and Health Award
Harvey R.  Castner

Warren F. Savage Memorial Award
John N. DuPont
Charles V. Robino
Joseph R. Michael
Ronald E. Mizia
David B. Williams

William Spraragen Memorial Award
John W. Elmer
Todd A. Palmer
Sudarsanam Suresh Babu
Wei Zhang
Tarasankar DebRoy

R.D. Thomas Memorial Award
Pingsha Dong

Eilhu Thomson Resistance
Welding Award
Robert Hofman, Jr.

George E. Willis Award
Kohsuke Horikawa

Wendy Sue Reeve, Managing Director, AWS Foundation and Administrative Services
550 N.W. LeJeune Road, Miami, Florida 33126
1-800-443-9353 x 293, email wreeve@aws.org

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AWS Counselor
The American Welding Society, in 1999, established the honor of Counselor to recognize individual members for a career of distinguished organizational leadership that has enhanced the image and impact of the welding industry.

RECENT AND PAST AWS FELLOWS AND COUNSELORS

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Research Fellowships

The American Welding Society offers Fellowships or Grants to students for graduate research toward a Masters or PhD degree under a sponsoring professor at a North American University.  The fellowships are up to $25,000 per year to recipients.  For further details on the 2007-08 request for proposals please click on Fellowships & Grants , the deadline to submit a proposal is February 16, 2007.

AWS Annual Silver Quill Award
The Silver Quill Editorial Achievement Award is an annual competition open to all non-welding industry and business publications. The American Welding Society will reward an article that advances the science, technology, and application of materials joining.

2004 Winner: JOM Magazine - "Practical Engineering in TV's Impractical Engineering Shows: Monster Garage and Junkyard Mega Wars" By Maureen Byko

For information regarding the AWS Annual Silver Quill Award, contact:
Ross Hancock
AWS
550 N.W. LeJeune Road
Miami, Florida 33126
(800) 443-9353 x 226
rhancock@aws.org

Extraordinary Welding Awards
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The American Welding Society is proud to recognize and solicit nominations for the Extraordinary Welding Awards. In doing so, we support and promote the realization of greater dreams, encourage members of the materials joining community to become aware of their heritage, and bring public awareness to the important role welding has in our lives.

For information regarding the AWS Extraordinary Welding Awards, contact:
Adrienne Zalkind
AWS
550 N.W. LeJeune Road
Miami, Florida 33126
(800) 443-9353 x 226
azalkind@aws.org

Image of Welding Awards
The AWS Welding Equipment Manufacturers Committee (WEMCO), announced the 2005 recipients of the third annual Image of Welding Awards. Divided into seven categories, these awards recognize individuals and organizations who have excelled in promoting the image of welding in their communities. All nominations for 2006 awards have been collected and are being reviewed now.

For information regarding the WEMCO Image of Welding Awards, contact:
Adrienne Zalkind
AWS
550 N.W. LeJeune Road
Miami, Florida 33126
(800) 443-9353 x 226
azalkind@aws.org

The 2007 Professor Koichi Masubuchi Award

This award is sponsored by the Center for Ocean Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The award was established to recognize Professor Koichi Masubuchi, who has made significant contributions in advancing the science and technology of welding, especially welding fabrication of marine and space structures. This award is presented to an individual who has made significant contributions to the advancement of science and technology of materials joining through research and development.

The candidate must be 40 years old or younger, and may live anywhere in the world. The nomination package should be prepared by someone familiar with the research background of the candidate. It should include a resume and three to five letters of recommendation from researchers familiar with the candidate.  The resume should include a summary statement of the candidate’s research interests and accomplishments, educational background, professional experience, publications, honors and awards.

Nominations must be received by the deadline of December 1, 2006. The award will be presented during the 2007 FABTECH International & The AWS Welding Show.  Submit your nomination to Prof. John DuPont at jnd1@lehigh.edu.