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Purpose: This award recognizes students (individuals or teams) who have developed technological innovations in the mobility industry in their research or schoolwork. This award honors the memory of Professor Henry O. Fuchs. Professor Fuchs participated in the SAE Fatigue Design & Evaluation Committee's research projects and founded the SAE Fatigue Concepts in Design short course. Criteria: Nominees must be students at the time of nomination and have demonstrated new and unique innovations or concepts that benefit the mobility industry which can include, but are not limited to, fatigue technology. 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 a certificate that is presented at an SAE Event. Past Recipients: YEAR RECIPIENT COMPANY Spring 2013 Jonathan R.

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  

Established in 1984, this award promotes engineering developments and the presentation of SAE papers on turbomachinery and/or developments that enable or advance the use of turbomachinery. The award honors Cliff Garrett and the inspiration he provided to engineers by his example, support, encouragement, and many contributions as an aerospace pioneer. To perpetuate recognition of Garrett's achievements and dedication as an aerospace pioneer, SAE administers an annual lecture by a distinguished authority in the engineering of turbomachinery and/or engineering related to creating, enabling, or advancing applications of turbomachinery in power systems, on-highway, off-highway, aircraft, and/or spacecraft uses. The award is made possible by a contribution from the Garrett Corp.

Established in 1928, this award annually recognizes the author(s) of the best paper(s) relating to theory or practice in the design or construction of, or research on, aerospace engines, their parts, components, or accessories at a meeting of the Society or its sections during the calendar year. Manly served as SAE President in 1919 and following his death, many of his associates formed a committee to establish a memorial as a lasting tribute to his work in aeronautic engineering.

Purpose: The A4A/SAE Nondestructive Testing (NDT) Innovation Award, formerly known as the Better Way Award, is an annual process established to recognize a government and/or industry team that has developed and applied a technology, technique, process, or policy that advances inspection or test of civil/commercial aircraft structure, aircraft components, or aircraft systems. Improvements will be assessed as a function of process sensitivity, reliability, and cost effectiveness. Criteria: Team eligibility includes both government and private industry personnel. Employees of universities, national labs, and non-profit organizations are also eligible as supplemental recipients of this award. Membership in A4A or SAE is not required. Teams may have two to twelve members. The accomplishment may involve research, development, engineering, application, management, or policy, and should have occurred not more than 18 months prior to the NDT Forum.

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 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. Criteria: Vice President or C-suite Executive for a minimum of five years. Led at least two major corporate or industry initiatives. Demonstrated success developing collaborative teams. Exhibited a customer-focused environment. Eligibility: Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for this award while serving on the committee.

Purpose: This award recognizes engineers who have held leadership positions focused on propulsion technology and can demonstrate innovation through patents, publications, and/or new products or processes. FEV provided the funding for this award to honor professor Franz F. Pischinger, who devoted his career to furthering powertrain technology and the education of young engineers. He held leading positions in the powertrain industry for most of his 50-year career, founded FEV in 1978 and served as the company’s president and CEO until 2003. Criteria: Technical innovation and overall impact on the advancement of powertrain technology over the nominee's career. Contributions to advance SAE's goal to further global mobility technology will be considered. 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.

Purpose: This award stimulates contacts between young engineering educators and practicing engineers in industry and government. Reflecting the firm belief of its donor that engineering educators are the most effective link between engineering students and their future careers, the focus is on engineering educators early in their careers. Its objective is to provide an engaging atmosphere in which these teachers can meet and exchange views with practicing engineers. Criteria: Contributions to teaching and curriculum development. Contributions to research, including grants, independent research and professional development. Publications related to SAE mobility interests. Applicant's education, leadership in student activities, and participation in engineering society activities. Applicant's three support letters. Benefits anticipated from participation in the Teetor program.

Purpose: This award recognizes an individual or a team from the automotive industry for outstanding contributions to automotive transmission and driveline technology. Funded through a gift from the Timken Company in 2007, this award honors Howard Simpson, who invented a revolutionary planetary gear set which constituted the basis for the Ford C4 and C5 transmission produced or the famous Chrysler Torqueflite transmission and several General Motors transmission models. Criteria: The award acknowledges new ideas, concepts, innovations, or applications that will assist in improving this technology. Nominees should have demonstrated significant achievements in improving automotive transmission and driveline technology. 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.

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals or teams whose work has created a demonstrable impact on safety in transportation.  This award was made possible by Arne and Steffi Siegel and honors Arnold W. Siegel, a longtime SAE member and Fellow whose extensive accomplishments in transportation safety and pioneering research include working with the world's first experimental full-scale automotive crash program, designing and constructing early versions of anthropometric dummies, and more than 40 years of collision and injury analysis and consulting for research and forensic purposes. Criteria: Nominees should be those in leadership positions who have made a significant safety impact related to transportation.

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals or teams whose work has reached the highest level of achievement in innovation throughout emerging technologies such as, but not limited to, sustainability, autonomous/automated mobility and advanced manufacturing, across the mobility industry. Innovations must demonstrate industry- or life-changing impact. This award was made possible by the generous contributions from Delco, and Ralph and Sharon Hillquist. Criteria: Unique and original concepts and innovations in emerging technologies that have far-reaching impact for industry and/or for society. Outstanding contributions to technological progress. Individuals and teams may be nominated for this award; multiple award winners are possible. Eligibility: Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for the award while serving on the committee. Two years must pass before former members of the Selection Committee are eligible to receive the award.

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals or teams who have demonstrated outstanding innovation in aerospace engineering, making significant contributions during their career in the innovative design and development of advanced aircraft or spacecraft and resulting in industry- or life-changing impact. This award was made possible by generous donations from R. Dixon Speas, PRC Aviation and Lockheed Martin. Criteria: Nominees’ achievements must represent unique and original engineering applications or innovations that have had a demonstrable positive impact on aerospace. Nominees should have a distinguished career in aerospace with proven accomplishments in the innovative design, or operational availability (repair design, tooling, maintenance practices, logistics, inspection, modification, and safety) of aircraft or spacecraft. Individuals and teams may be nominated for this award; multiple award winners are possible.

Purpose: Established in 2008, this award recognizes outstanding accomplishments and leadership in the area of diesel engines. Two awards are given each year, one for Best Paper and the other, the Diesel Engine Research Medal, given to an individual for outstanding leadership in research and development in the field of diesel engines through a singular accomplishment or lifetime achievement. The Best Paper award recognizes the authors of an original and outstanding technical paper presented at an SAE meeting about diesel engines in the on- or off-road industries. The Medal recognizes an outstanding leader whose professional career has focused on advancing the field of diesel engines.  This award is funded through generous contributions from Dr. John H. Johnson, his colleagues and former students. Dr.

Purpose: This Award recognizes an individual for their unique and outstanding contributions over a period of time to the work of the technical committees under the SAE Executive Standards Committee (ESC) in developing standards, specifications, technical reports, and data development through cooperative research. The medal was named in honor of Arch T. Colwell, its first recipient and 1941 SAE President. Dr. Colwell symbolized the dedication and devotion of SAE members who work to further the objectives of SAE’s technical standards. Criteria: Significant contribution in terms of the originality of the individual's work. Impact and influence of the individual's work on the progress and development of mobility engineering. General value of the individual's contribution to industry, the profession, the public-at-large, and government. Recognition by the individual's peers of both leadership and participation in achieving the full value of the technical standards program.

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 recognizes those in the mobility industry who bring forth innovation and broaden the impact of quality in mobility engineering, design, and manufacturing. It brings an awareness to the beneficial impact provided to society-at-large that has been attained by mobility engineering through the use and power of quality in engineering. The award was established in 2010 through a generous gift from Subir and Malini Chowdhury. Subir Chowdhury is one of the world’s leading management consultants. He has helped Fortune 500 companies save billions of dollars with improvements to their quality and performance. He has authored more than 15 books (many international bestsellers) and given dozens of talks on management and quality.  Criteria: Leaders in academia or industry, who have contributed substantial skills and talent to advance and promote the principles and application of quality in Mobility Engineering. Served in a leadership role for a minimum of five years.

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals or teams (SAE members or non-members) who have made an impact on sustainable aviation, whether working in industry, government, or academia. The award was made possible through a generous contribution from the Agarwal Family, in honor of Ramesh Agarwal, the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Agarwal is a leader in sustainable aviation, computational fluid dynamics, and renewable & clean energy technologies, and is a Fellow and longtime member of SAE International.

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals or teams whose research has resulted in new applications or innovations that have advanced fuels and lubricants within the mobility industry. Criteria: Nominees’ research must represent unique and original research resulting in new applications, engineering methodologies or technological innovations that have had a demonstrable positive impact on lubricants and lubricated systems or components. The research must have resulted in extraordinary advancement within the mobility industry, resulting in increased efficiency, accessibility, safety, sustainability or usefulness of a product, system, or process. The unique and original research must be less than five years old, and these innovations must be in use today. Eligibility: Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for the award while serving on the committee. Two years must pass before former members of the Selection Committee are eligible to receive the award.

Purpose: This award recognizes individuals for their executive leadership in Automotive Engineering. Nominees may be executives who have served the automotive industry for a large portion of their career and can demonstrate significant contributions to the progress and development of ground transportation, creating value for their company, automotive industry, and/or society. Providing supervisory or managerial engineering direction alone does not fulfill the award requirement. The Ford Motor Company funded this award in 1988 to honor Henry Ford II’s pioneering impact on the mobility industry. Criteria: Vice President or C-suite Executive for a minimum of five years. Led at least two major corporate or industry initiatives. Demonstrated success developing collaborative teams. Fostered a customer-focused environment. Eligibility: Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for this award while serving on the committee.