This award recognizes individuals for their sustained outstanding contributions toward the work of the SAE Engineering Events in the planning, development, and dissemination of technical information through technical meetings, conferences, and professional development programs at SAE events or outstanding contributions to event operations in facilitating or enhancing the interchanges of technical information.
Established in 1979, this award is administered by SAE Engineering Events and honors the late Forest R. McFarland who was himself an outstanding session organizer, a chairman of the Passenger Car Activity and a member of the Engineering Meetings Board. Funding for this award is through a bequest by McFarland to SAE and consists of a framed certificate presented at an appropriate event.
| Award Date | Name | Employer |
| 2018 | Tarek M Abdel-Salam Ph.D. | East Carolina University |
| Dr Bashar AbdulNour | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Gordon L. Allen | Boeing Co. | |
| Prof Oivind Andersson Ph.D. | Lund University | |
| Dr Ewa Alice Bardasz | Energetics | |
| Elana Chapman | General Motors | |
| Gloria D'Anna | General Telecom Systems Inc. | |
| Hether Fedullo | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Dr Antonio Garcia DEng | Universitat Politecnica de Valencia | |
| Dr W Riley Garrott | ||
| Warren N Hardy | Virginia Tech | |
| Dr Paramsothy Jayakumar | U.S. Army TARDEC | |
| Kristin Kolodge | J.D. Power And Associates | |
| Ashok Kumar | Cummins Inc. | |
| Lin Li | Liebherr Mining Equip Newport News Co. | |
| Ehsan Moradi-Pari Ph.D. | Honda R & D Americas Inc. | |
| Prof Luis Rabelo | Univ of Central Florida | |
| Dr Ravi Rajamani | drR2 Consulting | |
| Denise M. Rizzo Ph.D. | U.S. Army TARDEC | |
| Farzad Samie | General Motors | |
| Michael J Schorn | TMD Friction GmbH | |
| Dr Leonid Tartakovsky | Technion Israel Inst of Technology | |
| Stephane A Thiriez | Mitsubishi Motors R&D of America Inc. | |
| Dr Robert M Wagner Ph.D. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Serdar Yonak Ph.D. | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Qian Zou | Oakland University | |
| 2017 | Earl J Capozzi | Pratt & Whitney |
| Reece Clothier | RMIT University | |
| Dr Anthony D Cooprider | Ford Motor Co. | |
| William B Craven | Daimler | |
| Archie D Crowe | ||
| Dr Barbara J. Czerny Ph.D. | ZF - TRW | |
| Ing Dan Day | Boeing Co. | |
| Dr Galen B Fisher | University of Michigan | |
| Matthew Fleming | Ford Motor Co. Ltd | |
| Adrian P Gaylard | Jaguar Land Rover | |
| Jianmin Guan | Altair Engineering | |
| Theo Kaster | TRW Automotive | |
| James Keller | United Paint | |
| Jason R Kerrigan | Univ of Virginia | |
| Christopher P. Kolodziej | Argonne National Laboratory | |
| Paul Kunder | Amera-Veritas Inc. | |
| Alvaro Masias | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Daniel C Morris | ||
| Vahid Navidi | Aviage Systems | |
| Dr-Ing Efstratios Nikolaidis | University Of Toledo | |
| Girish Parvate-Patil | Caterpillar | |
| Srikanth Pilla Ph.D. | Clemson University | |
| Nammalwar Purushothaman Ph.D. | BAE Systems | |
| Constantine N Raptis | GM Powertrain | |
| Ramesh Rebba | General Motors | |
| Dr Branko Sarh | Boeing Co. | |
| Daniel J Selke | Mercedes-Benz USA LLC | |
| Navtej Singh | Navistar Inc. | |
| Paul Thompson | Electroimpact Inc. | |
| Dr Alok Warey | General Motors Global R&D | |
| Xin Zhang Ph.D. | F.Tech R&D North America Inc. | |
| 2016 | Alan F Asay PE | |
| Patrick H Browning Ph.D. | West Virginia University | |
| Serge A Bruillot | Dassault Aviation | |
| Yi Ding | ||
| Robert J Flemming Jr | ||
| Cary Henry Ph.D. | ||
| Rahul Jhavar Ph.D. | Caterpillar Inc. | |
| Helen A Kaleto | MGA Research Corp. | |
| Dr Krishna Kamasamudram Ph.D. | Cummins Inc. | |
| Keith Vernon Leigh-Monstevens | ||
| Peter Grant Martin | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | |
| David Masser | Ford Motor Co. | |
| William F Northrop | ||
| Gregory Pannone | Novation Analytics | |
| Stephen M Pitrof | Inteva LLC | |
| David B Roth | BorgWarner Inc. | |
| J. Martin Rowell | ||
| Ronald Semel | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Mark Steffka | GM Powertrain | |
| Dr John M Storey | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Prof Andrea Strzelec Ph.D. | Texas A&M University | |
| James P Szybist | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| John F Thomas | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Dr Richard Dale Tonda | SEA Ltd. | |
| Russell J Truemner | AVL Powertrain Engineering Inc. | |
| Weiguo Zhang | FCA US LLC | |
| 2015 | William P Attard | Fiat Chrysler Automobiles |
| Wayne Cai | General Motors | |
| Gang Chen | FCA US LLC | |
| Dr Guofei Chen | ||
| Scott Curran Ph.D. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Sujit Das | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Mikhail A Ejakov | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Essam El-Hannouny | Argonne National Laboratory | |
| Michael E Fingerman | FCA US LLC | |
| Dr Richard Garcia | Southwest Research Institute | |
| Gregory Goetchius | Tesla Inc. | |
| Dr Richard W Greaves FREng | Meggitt PLC | |
| Dr Mingchao Guo | FCA US LLC | |
| Dr-Ing Jidong Kang PE | CanmetMATERIALS | |
| Prof Y Charles Lu | University of Kentucky | |
| Robert W McCoy Ph.D. | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Dr Paul C Miles | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Mark P. B. Musculus | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Chester P. Nelson | Boeing Commercial Airplanes | |
| Donald Parker | Exponent Failure Analysis | |
| Karl Simon | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | |
| Derek Splitter Ph.D. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| John O Waldman | General Motors | |
| Richard Wire | Boeing Co. | |
| Richard Wood | SOLUS Solutions and Technologies LLC | |
| David P Zika | Boeing Research & Technology | |
| 2014 | Jamel E Belwafa | Ford Motor Co. |
| George Nicholas Bullen | Smart Blades Inc. | |
| Timothy Cheek PE | Delta V Forensic Engineering | |
| Dr Hussein Dourra Ph.D. | FCA US LLC | |
| James Fash Ph.D. | ZF - TRW | |
| Dr Yan Fu | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Barbara Goodrich | John Deere Product Engineering Center | |
| Ramesh Goyal Ph.D. | ||
| Dr Mirko Jakovljevic | TTTech Computertechnik AG | |
| Mark D Jensen | Vector CANtech Inc. | |
| Dr-Ing Ken Kang | Honda R & D Americas Inc. | |
| Jacque David La Valle | Navair | |
| Peter T Lamm | U.S. Air Force | |
| Benny J Leppert | Boeing Co. | |
| Russell Evan Levine | Kirkland & Ellis LLP | |
| James Miller | Argonne National Laboratory | |
| Dr Kamran Rokhsaz | Wichita State University | |
| Varsha K Sadekar | General Motors | |
| Samveg Saxena | ||
| Riccardo Scarcelli Ph.D. | Argonne National Laboratory | |
| Scott Sluder | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Dr Gavin Song Ph.D. | AM General LLC | |
| Michael J Stanton | Association of Global Automakers Inc. | |
| John C Steiner | KEVA Engineering | |
| Prof Sebastian Verhelst | Ghent University | |
| 2013 | Dr Mallikarjuna Bennur Ph.D. | General Motors |
| Ken Farsi | Dassault Aircraft Services | |
| Michael Finkelstein | Michael Finkelstein & Associates | |
| Michael J Flannagan | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | |
| James W Fulton | Fulton Findings | |
| Scott Gillette | ||
| Raymond A Kach | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Kathleen E Kedzior | MAHLE Test Systems | |
| Paul Kunder | Amera-Veritas Inc. | |
| Dr Alan Luo | ||
| Prof Piergiovanni Marzocca | Clarkson University | |
| Ryan McGee | Ford Motor Co. | |
| Federico Millo | Politecnico di Torino | |
| Rahul Mital Ph.D. | General Motors | |
| Chadwyck Musser | Cambridge Collaborative Inc. | |
| Dr Rainer Neumann | Varroc Lighting Systems GmbH | |
| Prof Luis Rabelo | University of Central Florida | |
| Dr Paul Richards | ||
| John Rugh | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
| Corina Sandu Ph.D. | Virginia Tech | |
| Christof Schernus | FEV GmbH | |
| Christopher Shaw | Visteon Corp. | |
| Mark W Smith CEng | Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. | |
| Ravi Thyagarajan | U.S. Army TARDEC | |
| Dr Lianxiang Yang | Oakland University | |
| Dr Aleksey Yezerets | Cummins Inc. |