This award recognizes individuals, teams, or entities whose mobility industry contributions – research, policy or practical application - have made a significant, positive, multi-generational impact on the world such as, but not limited to mobility safety or the environment, creating a safer, healthier world.
This award was made possible by Arne and Steffi Siegel and honors Arnold W. Siegel, a longtime SAE member and Fellow whose extensive accomplishments in transportation safety and pioneering research include working with the world's first experimental full-scale automotive crash program, designing and constructing early versions of anthropometric dummies, and more than 40 years of collision and injury analysis and consulting for research and forensic purposes.
Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for the award while serving on the committee. Two years must pass before former members of the Selection Committee are eligible to receive the award.
This includes an honorarium and an award that is presented at an SAE Event.
| YEAR | RECIPIENT | COMPANY |
| 2022 | Selvaraj Narayana | KTM North America, INC |
| 2021 | Subir Chowdhury | ASI Consulting Group, LLC |
| 2018 | Ramesh Agarwal | Washington University |
| 2017 | William G. Agnew | Retired |
| 2017 | John D. Caplan | Posthumously |
| 2017 | Joseph M. Colucci | Retired |
| 2017 | W. DeWayne France Jr. | Retired |
| 2017 | Nicholas E. Gallopoulos | Retired |
| 2017 | Norman A. Hunstad | Retired |
| 2017 | James A. Spearot | Retired |
| 2017 | Charles S. Tuesday | Posthumously |
| 2017 | Lloyd L. Withrow | Posthumously |
| 2016 | Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) | |
| 2015 | Dean Kamen | DEKA Research and Development Corp. |
Nominations August 12 - September 30