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Purpose: This Award recognizes an individual for their unique and outstanding contributions over a period of time to the work of the technical committees under the SAE Executive Standards Committee (ESC) in developing standards, specifications, technical reports, and data development through cooperative research. The medal was named in honor of Arch T. Colwell, its first recipient and 1941 SAE President. Dr. Colwell symbolized the dedication and devotion of SAE members who work to further the objectives of SAE’s technical standards. Criteria: Significant contribution in terms of the originality of the individual's work. Impact and influence of the individual's work on the progress and development of mobility engineering. General value of the individual's contribution to industry, the profession, the public-at-large, and government. Recognition by the individual's peers of both leadership and participation in achieving the full value of the technical standards program.

Purpose: This award honors the best innovation and/or implementation of new ideas in boosting systems by an individual or a team that has positively impacted the industry. This award was established in 2019 through the generous support of IHI Corporation. Criteria: New ideas not just in the area of performance, but also in the areas of fuel economy, emissions, cost, quality, and reliability that generate a positive impact within the automotive industry 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.

Purpose: To recognize students who demonstrate outstanding technical expertise through the presentation of a technical paper or engineering project in association with a major SAE meeting, event or student competition. The late Dr. Phil Myers and his wife Jean were lifelong devotees to students and SAE International. Myers was a renowned expert on internal combustion engines, and before his retirement, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Together with his wife, they set a high standard for excellence, concern for students, and involvement with SAE. In their honor, an award was established in 1997, to annually recognize the best technical writing by a student. Criteria: The writings must be based on work done by the author(s) while an undergraduate or graduate student and presented at a major SAE event. Eligibility: Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for this award while serving on the committee.

Purpose: Established in 1978, this award honors the memory of Edward N. Cole, former President and Chief Operating Officer of General Motors, and the inspiration he provided others in the engineering profession by his continuing search and drive for product innovation. Criteria: Significant innovative achievement in automotive engineering or whose innovative design is well detailed in an SAE paper. Original innovative contribution, not building upon the application of some development or invention already known. Eligibility: 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. Recognition: This includes an honorarium, and an award that is presented at an SAE Event.

Purpose: Created in 1986, the SAE Medal of Honor annually recognizes an individual who has demonstrated unwavering loyalty to SAE International’s mission of advancing mobility solutions for the benefit of humanity. Criteria: Those who have made significant and sustaining contributions throughout the course of their career to SAE which have contributed to SAE’s global success. Contributed to the SAE Community at Large through involvement as a member volunteer. Served as an industry partner and ambassador for SAE’s vision, mission, and values. Implemented, collaborated on, or developed mobility solutions on behalf of SAE for a better tomorrow. Created societal impact through their work on behalf of SAE. Two letters of recommendation are required.  Eligibility Requirements: Living, voting member of SAE International, who has not previously received the Award. Unique, significant contributions.

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals or teams whose work has created a demonstrable impact on safety in transportation.  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. Criteria: Nominees should be those in leadership positions who have made a significant safety impact related to transportation.

Purpose: This Award recognizes professionals (individuals or teams) who have made significant science and engineering contributions to computational fluid dynamics (CFD).   The award was made possible through a generous contribution from the Agarwal Family, in honor of Ramesh Agarwal, the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Agarwal is a leader in sustainable aviation, computational fluid dynamics, and renewable & clean energy technologies, and is a Fellow and longtime member of SAE International. Criteria: Professionals (individual or team) who have made significant science and engineering contributions to the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are honored through this award.   Nominees may be from industry, academia, or government who have made contributions to CFD and its applications within the aerospace or ground vehicle industries.  

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals for their executive leadership in Automotive Engineering. Nominees may be executives who have served the automotive industry for a large portion of their career and can demonstrate significant contributions to the progress and development of ground transportation, creating value for their company, automotive industry, and/or society. Providing supervisory or managerial engineering direction alone does not fulfill the award requirement. The Ford Motor Company funded this award in 1988 to honor Henry Ford II’s pioneering impact on the mobility industry. Criteria: Vice President or C-suite Executive for a minimum of five years. Led at least two major corporate or industry initiatives. Demonstrated success developing collaborative teams. Fostered a customer-focused environment. Eligibility: Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for this award while serving on the committee.

Purpose: This award recognizes those who make a valuable contribution of time and leadership in support of the SAE standards and technical committees through research, test methods and procedures, development of standards and/or external representation of the Society for similar works. The SAE International ESC Outstanding Achievement Award was established to honor the 1945 SAE International President James M. Crawford. Criteria: Extraordinary leadership in the activities of a committee. Outstanding contributions in the form of research, test methods and procedures. Advancing SAE image as the premier international standards developer. Exceptional effort related to document production. Outstanding commitment to technical committee(s). Eligibility: The top awardee will receive the SAE International Cooperative Engineering Medal honoring Arch T. Colwell. Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for the award while serving on the committee.

Purpose: This award honors an outstanding middle school teacher or a team of teachers who have made creative and exemplary use of the A World In Motion® (AWIM ®) program to develop students' understanding of math, science, and engineering. This award was established through a generous gift from the SAE Detroit Section in 2001 to commemorate the life of industry leader, long-time GM executive Gary Dickinson, an advocate for providing math and science education to middle school students. Dickinson played a major role in the development of the AWIM program Motorized Toy Car and Glider Challenges. Criteria: Demonstrated, through qualitative and quantitative data, exemplary use of the AWIM curriculum.   To be eligible for this award, nominees must be middle school teachers (individuals or teams) from public, parochial, or private schools. Eligibility: Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for this award while serving on the committee.

Purpose: This award provides funding to a Formula SAE® (FSAE) team to assist with the development of their vehicle design. Established in 2004, this award honors William R. "Bill" Adam's contribution to FSAE and his lifelong dedication to mentoring young engineers. Bill was a longtime SAE member and was an accomplished automotive industry engineer who helped develop the integrated Manifold-Muffler-Catalyst design. Criteria: Teams who are currently registered for a Formula SAE competition may apply. Funds may only be used for costs associated with vehicle design in preparation for a Formula competition. Special consideration will be given to those teams who were unable to secure major sponsors for their team. Eligibility: 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.

Purpose: This award celebrates the successes of women in the engineering profession and recognizes their leadership and technical contributions in the aerospace, automotive and commercial vehicle sectors. It serves to broaden the awareness of the reach and impact of women working in mobility engineering, and opening doors for young girls interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) who wish to pursue engineering careers. Rodica Baranescu, Ph.D. made a generous gift in 2011 to establish this award. Dr. Baranescu is Past President of SAE International, an SAE Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  As a mechanical engineer, she began her professional and academic career in her native country, Romania, before immigrating to the United States in 1980 and was later the first woman elected President of SAE International in 2000.

Purpose: This Award recognizes those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding presentation skills. The award's intent is to maintain high presentations at SAE technical sessions by recognizing individuals who make outstanding presentations at those sessions. Withrow was an SAE Fellow and noted speaker at many SAE meetings and recognized for his outstanding communication skills, and his continual insistence that those he supervised also develop and demonstrate excellent communications skills, both written and oral. Criteria: Recipients are selected from the top 5% of presenters based on audience votes during the live presentation at WCX. Recognition: This includes a certificate.

Purpose: This award recognizes undergraduate or graduate students who demonstrate exceptional technical expertise through their participation in SAE’s university programs. Students receive this award based on exceeding expected results in technological areas such as, but not limited to, efficiency or powertrain performance during their SAE university program competition. This award was made possible by a generous gift from Garrett and honors Cliff Garrett, a distinguished authority in turbomachinery engineering who inspired countless engineers through his example, support and many contributions as an aerospace pioneer. Criteria: Because this award is based on performance in an SAE university program, nominations are not accepted. Recognition: This includes an honorarium and an award that is presented during an SAE university program competition. Past Recipients: YEAR RECIPIENT COMPANY 2023 Carnegie Mellon  

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals or teams whose work has created a demonstrable impact on safety in transportation.  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. Criteria: Nominees should be those in leadership positions who have made a significant safety impact related to transportation.

Purpose: This award recognizes volunteers for their outstanding contributions in the planning, development, and dissemination of technical information for SAE engineering events, meetings or professional development programs. Established in 1979, this award honors Forest R. McFarland who was an outstanding session organizer and very active with various leadership roles on SAE committees. Criteria: Contributions may include support or organization of technical meetings, conferences, and professional development programs at SAE events or outstanding facilitation of the exchange of technical information.   Eligibility: Individuals - Three years must pass before an individual prior awardee is eligible for another McFarland. Members of the Selection Committee - Committee Members are not eligible for the award while serving on the committee, and two years must pass before former members are eligible to receive a McFarland.

Purpose: This award recognizes students (individuals or teams) who have developed technological innovations in the mobility industry in their research or schoolwork. This award honors the memory of Professor Henry O. Fuchs. Professor Fuchs participated in the SAE Fatigue Design & Evaluation Committee's research projects and founded the SAE Fatigue Concepts in Design short course. Criteria: Nominees must be students at the time of nomination and have demonstrated new and unique innovations or concepts that benefit the mobility industry which can include, but are not limited to, fatigue technology. 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 a certificate that is presented at an SAE Event. Past Recipients: YEAR RECIPIENT COMPANY Spring 2013 Jonathan R.

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals for their executive leadership in the off-highway industry. Nominees may be executives who have served the off-highway industry for a large portion of their career and can demonstrate significant contributions to the progress and development of this industry, creating value for their company, the industry and/or society. Providing supervisory or managerial engineering direction alone does not fulfill the award requirement This award honors Sid A. Olsen, his contributions to the off-highway industry, and the outstanding engineering management values he personified. Olsen, an SAE Fellow, was Manager of Engine Engineering at John Deere Product Engineering Center. Olsen was an industry leader who actively supported and participated in leading industry activities. Criteria: Vice President or C-suite executive for a minimum of five years. Led at least two major corporate or industry initiatives. Demonstrated success developing collaborative teams.

Purpose: This award recognizes volunteers who develop students' understanding and experience in math and science by helping teachers implement the A World In Motion® (AWIM®) program in the classroom. The award honors Dr. William G. Agnew, who was instrumental in establishing AWIM and supported the program throughout his lifetime. Criteria: Volunteer experience must have occurred during the most recent academic year. All AWIM volunteers are eligible, including retirees, industry professionals and university/high school students. Eligibility: 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. Recognition: This includes a certificate and honorarium and is presented at a location meaningful to the recipient. Past Recipients: YEAR RECIPIENT COMPANY 2020 Georgina M.

Purpose: This award recognizes an outstanding student leader of one or more SAE activities and, through the award, encourages a vision within the student to become an SAE leader during their adult career. Past SAE Executive Vice President Max E. Rumbaugh Jr. established this award with a generous gift in 2002 to realize his vision of encouraging and inspiring young SAE members to become engaged with SAE throughout their professional careers/lifetimes. Criteria: SAE student members will be nominated by their SAE faculty advisor who will provide a citation detailing the student's outstanding leadership skills during the past academic year.