SAE International Award for Outstanding Student Leadership in STEM Honoring Max Rumbaugh

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. All nominees will meet the following criteria:

  • SAE Student Member who is about to graduate or has already graduated from a university or college in a technical field related to automotive engineering (This includes undergraduates and graduates)
  • The student will have demonstrated outstanding leadership skills in one or more SAE activities during the academic year being concluded during the year of nomination.  (The purpose of this provision is to preclude an individual from being selected for leadership demonstrated solely in years prior to the year of his/her selection.)  One recipient will be selected.
  • It is preferred that the recipient has begun employment when selected (or will soon begin their employment following a pending graduation).
  • Nominations will be judged based on SAE-related leadership activities during the year of nomination, and imminent support of SAE and its activities.

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 award includes a lifetime professional membership in SAE and a trip to a major SAE event where the award is presented.

Past Recipients:

YEAR   RECIPIENT   COMPANY
2023   Adriana Kleshick Segarra  

GE Aerospace

2022   Rebecca Vollman   University of Central Florida
2021   Dylan Konop   Milwaukee Tool
2020   Olivia Cathryn Wanless   Kettering University
2019   Cora Taylor   Michigan Technological University
2018   Greg Sawvelle   San Diego State University
2017   Ian Eickholdt   Central Michigan University
2016   Grant Mottershaw    University of Houston
2015   Adam Farabaugh     University of Pennsylvania
2014   Grady Young    Southern Polytechnic State University
2012   Michael Nienhuis    Western Michigan University
2011   Matthew J. Meyer   Lawrence Technological University
2010   Randy Floresca   San Jose State University
2009   Jill S. DeGowske   Lawrence Technological University

2008

  Anthony Capobianco    
2007   Darrell Krueger    
2006   Cindy Chou    
2005   Brian Dwornick    
2004   Alta Karpenko    
2002   Daniel Basch    
2001   Jeremy Taylor    

Nominations August 12 - September 30

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