Forest R. McFarland Award

Established in 1979, this award is administered by SAE Engineering Events in honor of the late Forest R. McFarland who was himself an outstanding session organizer and very active with various leadership roles on SAE committees. 

A generous bequest by Mr. McFarland to SAE brought about the development of this recognition that honors volunteers for their outstanding contributions toward the work of the SAE Engineering Events in the planning, development, and dissemination of technical information.

Contributions may include support or organization of technical meetings, conferences, and professional development programs at SAE events or outstanding facilitation of the interchange of technical information.  

Presentation may occur at an applicable SAE Event or SAE Organizer/Volunteer Recognition Event.

Past Recipients

Year

Recipient

Employer

2022

Josh Pihl    

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Wallington, Andrew   

ACE Aerospace Certification LLC

 

Carter, Jarrod    

Origin Forensics LLC

 

Abdel-Salam, Tarek   

Research Engineering        
East Carolina University 

 

Zhu, Di   

Ford Motor Company

 

Merola, Simona  

CNR STEMS

 

Williams, Ron  

Retired

 

Sorenson, Steve   

Toyota Motor North America R&D

 

Rockstroh, Toby   

Argonne National Laboratory

 

Gulve, Amol  

Volvo Group North America

 

Popejoy, David    

Ford Motor Company

 

Wei Li    

Autoliv USA

 

Ge, Haiwen  

Texas Tech University

 

Davis, Richard  

Michigan Technological University

 

Cai, William  

Harbin University of Science and Technology

 

Ahmed, Qadeer 

The Ohio State University

 

Newton, Gary  

VI-grade

 

Leach, Felix 

University of Oxford

 

Chen, Wei   

BorgWarner Inc.

 

Elfstrom, Gary

Ontario Tech University 

 

Costanzo, Vince 

Aramco Research Center

2021

Kevin Walsh

The Boeing Company

 

Philippe Villedieu 

 ONERA

 

McKail  Temkin 

FCA US LLC

 

Gavin Song 

Ford Motor Company

 

Ron Silver

Caterpillar Inc

 

Jake Shultz

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

 

Elana Shippen

The Boeing Company

 

Gene Saltzberg 

Retired

 

Rau Marin

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA - CMT MOTORES TERMICOS

 

Svitlana Kroll 

Southwest Research Institute

 

John Kasab 

AVL

 

Jim Hoppins 

Textron Aviation

 

Mark Barkey  

The Unvisersity of Alabama

2020

Michele Battistoni

Universita degli Studi di Perugia

 

Yan Chen

Arizona State Univ

 

Jan Czerwinski

Univ of Applied Sciences Biel-Bienne

 

Adam Dempsey

Marquette University

 

Dr Stefano Fontanesi

Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia

 

Subramaniam Ganesan

Oakland University

 

S. Scott Goldsborough

Argonne National Laboratory

 

Bobby Gruszczynski

retired (formerly Volkswagen)

 

John Hoard

University of Michigan

 

Mark Hoffman

Auburn Univ

 

Bengt Johansson

King Abdullah Univ of Science & Tech

 

James Kliesch

American Honda Motor Co Inc

 

Benjamin Lawler

Clemson Univ

 

Chunhao Lee

General Motors LLC

 

Yung-Li Lee

FCA US LLC

 

Yucheng Liu

Mississippi State Univ

 

Paul Lubinski

Thermo King Corp

 

Brian Murray

ZF  

 

Ananda Pandy

ZF Friedrichshafen AG

 

Kumar Srinivasan

FCA US LLC

 

Robert Sutherlin

Iljin USA

 

Todd Toops

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Per Tunestal

Lund University

 

Dr Vladimir V Vantsevich

University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

Amitabh Vyas

Spirit AeroSystems Inc

 

Fulun Yang

Tenneco Inc

2019

Carlos Agudelo

Link Engineering Co

 

Jim Barker

Innospec

 

Kirby Baumgard

John Deere Power Systems

 

Matthew P. Castanier

US Army TARDEC

 

Reuben Chandrasekharan

Bombardier Learjet

 

Ray Corbin

AVL Michigan Holding Corporation

 

Sara Dadras

Ford Motor Company

 

Soodeh Dadras

Utah State University

 

Paul Robert Davies

Boeing Co

 

Sheng Shi Fan

COMAC

 

Yichao Guo

FCA US LLC

 

Andrew Ickes

Chevron Energy Technology Company

 

Michael Kass

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Eric Krivitzky

Thermofluid Research Laboratory

 

Sotirios Mamalis

Stony Brook Univ

 

Ezio Mancaruso

Istituto Motori CNR

 

Rachel Muncrief

International Council On Clean Transport

 

Jian Pan

Gissing Automotive Systems LLC

 

Darrell Robinette

Michigan Technological Univ

 

Corina Sandu

Virginia Tech

 

Rini Sherony

Toyota Motor Corp

 

Anand Srinivasan

Cummins Inc

 

Jian Tao

FCA US LLC

 

Amitabh (Amit) Vyas

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.

 

Curtis Vincent

General Motors

 

Yunqing Zhang

Huazhong University of Science and Tech

 

Feng Zhu

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

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.

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