SAE International Award for Propulsion Innovation Honoring Franz Pischinger

Purpose:

This award recognizes engineers who have held leadership positions focused on propulsion technology and can demonstrate innovation through patents, publications, and/or new products or processes.

FEV provided the funding for this award to honor professor Franz F. Pischinger, who devoted his career to furthering powertrain technology and the education of young engineers. He held leading positions in the powertrain industry for most of his 50-year career, founded FEV in 1978 and served as the company’s president and CEO until 2003.

Criteria:

• Technical innovation and overall impact on the advancement of powertrain technology over the nominee's career.
• Contributions to advance SAE's goal to further global mobility technology will be considered.

Eligibility:

Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for this award while serving on the committee. Two years must pass before former members of the Selection Committee are eligible to receive the award.

Recognition: 

This includes an honorarium and an award that is presented at an SAE Event.

Past Recipients:

YEAR	RECIPIENT	COMPANY
2022	Dan Hancock	General Motors Company
2021	Mitsuo Hitomo	Mazda Motor Corporation
2020	Daniel Nicholson	General Motors Company
2019	Motohiro Matsumura	Nissan Motorsports International Co., Ltd
2018	Yucong Wang, Ph.D.	General Motors
2017	John C Wall, Ph.D.
2016	Robert Lee	FCA US LLC
2015	Thomas G. Stevens	GM Truck Group
2013	Simon C. Tung, Ph.D.
2012	David F. Merrion	Merrion Expert Consulting LLC
2011	John H. Johnson, Ph.D.	Michigan Technological University
2010	Paul M. Najt	General Motors
2009	Gerhard Schmidt, Ph.D.	Ford Motor Company