This award recognizes individuals for their executive leadership in the off-highway industry. Nominees may be executives who have served the off-highway industry for a large portion of their career and can demonstrate significant contributions to the progress and development of this industry, creating value for their company, the industry and/or society.
Providing supervisory or managerial engineering direction alone does not fulfill the award requirement
This award honors Sid A. Olsen, his contributions to the off-highway industry, and the outstanding engineering management values he personified. Olsen, an SAE Fellow, was Manager of Engine Engineering at John Deere Product Engineering Center. Olsen was an industry leader who actively supported and participated in leading industry activities.
Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for the award while serving. 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 the SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress & Exhibition.
| YEAR | RECIPIENT | COMPANY |
| 2017 | Amy Moore-Mckee | Caterpillar Inc. |
| 2016 | Ramin Younessi | Caterpillar Inc. |
| 2015 | Reid White Waitt | Caterpillar |
| 2012 | Regis Luther | Navistar Inc |
| 2011 | Donald Verhoff | Oshkosh Corporation |
| 2009 | V Herbert Kaufman Jr | SAE International |
| 2008 | Wayne B Martenas | CNH Industrial |
| 2007 | Mark R Pflederer | Caterpillar Inc. |
| 2006 | James Wienkes | John Deere Waterloo Works |
| 2005 | Dr John C Wall | Cummins Inc. |
| 2004 | William Klenk | General Motors |
| 1999 | Daniel M Hancock | Allison Transmission Inc |
| 1998 | Dr Kunihiko Komiyama | Komatsu Ltd |
| 1997 | Alan E Park | |
| 1996 | Ronald L Krolak | Caterpillar Inc. |
| 1995 | Horst K Kuehner | Cummins Inc. |