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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 the significant technical achievements brought about by innovation, leadership, and inspiration of employees with disabilities working in the mobility engineering industry. The award was established through a generous contribution from Boeing in 2011. Criteria: The nominee must be an individual who has met the purpose of this award and who is disabled as defined by the latest amendment to the “Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.” Demonstrated success in at least one major technical achievement benefiting the nominee’s company, industry, or society. 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.

SAE International has published a new recommended practice for assessing the amount of nonvolatile particulate matter (nvPM) that exits aircraft engine exhaust nozzles – ARP6481: Procedure for the Calculation of Non-Volatile Particulate Matter Sampling and Measurement System Losses and System Loss Correction Factors

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 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 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 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  

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