The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) established The Edwin F. Church Medal in 1972. Every year it is awarded to "an individual who has rendered eminent service in increasing the value, importance and attractiveness of mechanical engineering education." The ASME intends the Medal to represent Education in a very broad sense: This includes any aspect of mechanical engineering communicate via universities, technical institutes, professional society educational activities, continuing education programs of professional societies and private groups, in-house professional development programs of industrial concerns and governmental agencies, programmed learning and self-instruction systems. This means the nominees need not be professional educators.

A bequest from Edwin F. Church, Jr. (1879–1964), an ASME Member and professor of mechanical engineering and head of the department at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn established the Medal.

Edwin F. Church Medal

Recipients of the Edwin F. Church Medal

Source: ASME

1973. Wilbur R. Leopold

1974. Hobart A. Weaver

1975. Harry Conn

1976. Frank W. Von Flue

1977. not awarded

1978. not awarded

1979. Kenneth A. Roe

1980. Dennis K. Bushnell

1981. Neal P. Jeffries

1982. Clinton H. Britt

1983. not awarded

1984. Milo Price

1985. Emil L. Martinec

1986. not awarded

1987. Garland H. Duncan

1988. Dale E. Klein

1989. Adolph T. Molin

1990. James R. Welty

1991. Joseph A. Falcon

1992. Stephen Juhasz

1993. Larry C. Oyen

1994. Avram Bar-Cohen

1995. not awarded

1996. not awarded

1997. Dean Kamen

1998. Allan D. Kraus

1999. Woodie C. Flowers

2000. John H. Lienhard

2001. Frank Kreith

2002. William S. Hammack

2003. Devendra P. Garg

2004. David Lavery

2005. Vincent Wilczynski

2006. not awarded

2007. not awarded

2008. not awarded

2009. Wilbur J. Marner

2010. not awarded

2011. Ramesh K. Agarwal

2012. Kenneth S. Ball

2013. William M. Worek

2014. John W. Cipolla

2015. William J. Wepfer

2016. Karen Thole

2017. Francis A. Kulacki

2018. Kendra V. Sharp

2019. Andreas Polycarpou

2020. Nael Barakat

See also

List of mechanical engineering awards

References

Awards established in 1972

Awards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Edwin F. Church Medal