This award recognizes individuals for their executive leadership in Aerospace Engineering. Nominees may be executives who have served the aerospace industry for a large portion of their career and can demonstrate significant contributions to the progress and development of air transportation, creating value for their company, aerospace industry, and/or society.
Providing supervisory or managerial engineering direction alone does not fulfill the award requirement.
This award honors Orville (an early SAE member) and Wilbur Wright, the first successful builders and operators of heavier-than-air flying equipment.
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.
This includes an honorarium, and an award that is presented at SAE AeroTech.
| YEAR | RECIPIENT | COMPANY |
| 2023 | Mauro Atalla | Collins Aerospace |
| 2021 | John Walter Strapp | |
| 2021 | Alfons Schwarzenboeck , | |
| 2021 | Kristopher Bedka | |
| 2021 | Tom Bond | |
| 2021 | Alice Calmels | |
| 2021 | Julien Delanoe | |
| 2021 | Fabien Dezitter | |
| 2021 | Matthew Grzych | |
| 2021 | Steven Harrah | |
| 2021 | Alexei Korolev | |
| 2021 | Delphine Leroy | |
| 2021 | Lyle Lilie | |
| 2021 | Jeanne Mason | |
| 2021 | Rodney Potts | Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
| 2021 | Alain Protat | Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
| 2021 | Thomas Ratvasky | |
| 2021 | James T. Riley | |
| 2021 | Mengistu Wolde | |
| 2019 | Yuzhi Jin | Tsinghua University |
| 2019 | Yuping Qian | |
| 2019 | Yangjun Zhang | |
| 2019 | Weilin Zhuge | |
| 2017 | Christian Boehlmann | Fraunhofer IFAM |
| 2017 | Wolfgang Hintze | IPMT TU Hamburg-Harburg |
| 2017 | Philip Koch | Fraunhofer IFAM |
| 2017 | Simon Kothe | Fraunhofer IFAM |
| 2017 | Christian Moeller | Fraunhofer IFAM |
| 2017 | Hans Christian Schmidt | Fraunhofer IFAM |
| 2017 | Jörg Wollnack | TU Hamburg-Harburg |
| 2016 | Tadas P. Bartkus | Ohio Aerospace Institute |
| 2016 | Peter Struk | NASA John Glenn Research Center |
| 2016 | Jen-Ching Tsao | Ohio Aerospace Institute |
| 2014 | Troy Beechner | Mainstream Engineering Corp |
| 2014 | Kyle Ian Merical | Mainstream Engineering Corp |
| 2014 | Paul Yelvington | Mainstream Engineering Corp |
| 2013 | Ing Rafael Fernandes de Oliveira | |
| 2012 | Jerry Bieszczad PhD | Creare Inc |
| 2012 | Michael Izenson PhD | Creare Inc |
| 2012 | George Ford Kiwada | |
| 2012 | Dr Patrick J Magari | Creare Inc |
| 2011 | Dr Matthew Barker | Stirling Dynamics Limited |
| 2011 | Dr Luke Hickson PhD | Stirling Dynamics Limited |
| 2011 | Dr Joseph K-W Lam PhD | Airbus UK |
| 2011 | Dr Stephen Paul Tomlinson PhD | |
| 2011 | Darran Venn | Stirling Dynamics Limited |
| 2010 | Magnus Engstrom | Saab AB |
| 2010 | Dr-Ing Henrik Kihlman PhD | DELFOi |
| 2009 | Atle Honne | SINTEF |
| 2009 | John T James PhD | NASA |
| 2009 | Dirk Kampf | KT Automotive GmbH |
| 2009 | Kristin Kaspersen | SINTEF |
| 2009 | Dr Thomas Limero | Wyle Laboratories Inc |
| 2009 | Dr Ariel V. Macatangay | Wyle Laboratories Inc |
| 2009 | Dr Herbert Mosebach | KT Automotive GmbH |
| 2009 | Paul D Mudgett | NASA Johnson Space Center |
| 2009 | Henrik Schumann-Olsen | SINTEF |
| 2009 | Wolfgang Supper | European Space Agency |
| 2009 | Gijsbert Tan | |
| 2008 | Carl Jack Ercol | Johns Hopkins Univ |
| 2007 | Peter O Andreychuk PE | RSC Energija |
| 2007 | Leonid S Bobe | NIICHIMMASH |
| 2007 | Nikolay N Protasov | RSC Energija |
| 2007 | Dr Nikolay N Samsonov PhD | NIICHIMMASH |
| 2007 | Dr Yury Sinyak PhD | Institute of Biomedical Problems |
| 2007 | Vladimir M Skuratov | Institute of Biomedical Problems |
| 2006 | James R Akse PhD | Umpqua Research Co |
| 2006 | James E Atwater | Umpqua Research Co |
| 2006 | Roger Dahl | Umpqua Research Co |
| 2006 | John W Fisher | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 2006 | Frank C Garmon | Umpqua Research Co |
| 2006 | Neal Hadley | |
| 2006 | Richard R. Wheeler Jr | Umpqua Research Co |
| 2006 | Thomas W Williams | Umpqua Research Co |
| 2005 | John W Fisher | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 2005 | Dr Michael T Flynn | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 2005 | Eric John Litwiller PhD | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 2005 | Martin Reinhard | Stanford Univ |
| 2004 | Philip Freeman | Boeing Co. |
| 2003 | Timothy J Bencic | NASA John Glenn Research Center |
| 2003 | Colin Bidwell | NASA John Glenn Research Center |
| 2003 | Prof Michael Papadakis PhD | Wichita State University |
| 2003 | Arief Rachman | Wichita State University |
| 2003 | See-Cheuk Wong | Wichita State University |
| 2002 | Gary L Boyd | Ceramic Engineering Consulting Inc |
| 2002 | Alfred W Fuller | Honeywell Engines Systems & Services |
| 2002 | Jack Moy | Honeywell Engines Systems & Services |
| 2001 | Maurizio Apra | Alenia Aerospazio |
| 2001 | Ing Marcello D'Amore | Univ of Roma La Sapienza |
| 2001 | Maria Sabrina Sarto | Univ of Roma La Sapienza |
| 2001 | Ing Alberto Scarlatti | Univ of Roma La Sapienza |
| 2001 | Dr Valeria Volpi | Alenia Aerospazio |
| 1999 | Jeremy S Agte | US Air Force |
| 1999 | Robert Sandusky | George Washington Univ |
| 1999 | Dr-Ing Jaroslaw Sobieski PhD | NASA Langley Research Center |
| 1998 | Dr Anthony D Andre | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 1998 | Dr David Foyle | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 1998 | Becky Lee Hooey | Monterey Technologies Inc |
| 1998 | Barbara Kanki | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 1998 | Dr Robert S McCann | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 1997 | Dr James R Fuller | Boeing Co. |
| 1996 | Ing Bradford Alan Moravec | Boeing Co. |
| 1996 | Michael W Patnoe | Boeing Integrated Defense Systems |
| 1995 | Ryan Robert Wilkins Jr | Boeing Aircraft & Missile Systems |
| 1994 | Timothy Geels | Boeing Co. |
| 1994 | Tom McDavid | Boeing Commercial Airplanes |
| 1994 | Greg Robel | Boeing Commercial Airplanes |
| 1994 | Tze Siu | Boeing Commercial Airplanes |
| 1992 | G J Bastiaans | Iowa State Univ |
| 1992 | Steve D Braymen | Iowa State Univ |
| 1992 | S G Burns | Iowa State Univ |
| 1992 | Shelley J Coldiron | Iowa State Univ |
| 1992 | Iowa State Univ | Iowa State Univ |
| 1992 | R S Deinhammer | Iowa State Univ |
| 1992 | William D Deninger | Iowa State Univ |
| 1992 | R P O'Toole | Iowa State Univ |
| 1992 | Prof Marc D. Porter | Iowa State Univ |
| 1992 | H R Shanks | Iowa State Univ |
| 1991 | Lourdes M Birckelbaw | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 1991 | Lloyd D Corliss | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 1990 | Mariann F Brown | NASA Johnson Space Center |
| 1990 | Susan Schentrup | NASA Johnson Space Center |
| 1989 | Charles W Boppe | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1989 | Dr Warren H Davis | Northrop Grumman Corp |
| 1988 | Dr Benton C Clark III | Lockheed Martin Astronautics |
| 1987 | Charles Blankenship | |
| 1987 | Dr Robert J Hayduk | National Aero & Space Administration |
| 1986 | James A Hare | Lockheed Martin Aerospace Systems Group |
| 1985 | Charles W Boppe | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1984 | Robert J Englar | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 1984 | James Nichols | US Navy |
| 1983 | Dr Carol A Simpson | Psycho Linguistic Res Associates |
| 1982 | Andre Fort | Airbus France |
| 1982 | Jean-Jacq Speyer | Airbus France |
| 1981 | Raymond M Hicks | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 1980 | Dr Walter S Cremens | Lockheed Martin Global Inc |
| 1979 | Gary E Erickson | Northrop Grumman Corp |
| 1979 | Dale J Lorincz | Northrop Grumman Corp |
| 1979 | William A Moore | Northrop Grumman Corp |
| 1979 | Andrew M Skow | Tiger Century Aircraft Inc |
| 1977 | Raymond M Hicks | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 1977 | Garret N Vanderplatts | Vanderplatts R&D |
| 1975 | John A Alic | |
| 1975 | H Archang | Wichita State University |
| 1974 | Gordon G Grose | McDonnell Douglas Corporation |
| 1974 | Dr John L Porter | Jacobs Technology Inc |
| 1974 | V Ralph Pruitt | McDonnell Douglas Corporation |
| 1974 | Michael J Wendl | McDonnell Douglas Corporation |
| 1973 | Richard E Hayden | Goodrich Aerospace |
Nominations August 12 - September 30