The George Westinghouse Award, named after
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of ...
, was given by the
American Society for Engineering Education
The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is a non-profit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and engineering technology education. The purpose of ASEE is the advancement of education ...
(ASEE) for outstanding contributions to
engineering education
Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles to the professional practice of engineering. It includes an initial education (bachelor's and/or master's degree), and any advanced education and specializations that ...
. It was awarded to "a young engineering educator of outstanding ability to recognize and encourage his or her contributions to improving engineering teaching".
The award was established by the Westinghouse Foundation in 1946, last issued in 1999 and consisted of an honorarium and a certificate.
Recipients
The following people received the George Westinghouse Award:
* 1940: Ray A. Simpson - Hoover Dam
* 1946:
James N. Goodier
* 1947:
B. Richard Teare, Jr.
* 1948:
Hunter Rouse Hunter Rouse (March 29, 1906 – October 16, 1996) was a hydraulician known for his research on the mechanics of fluid turbulence.
Rouse was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, from 1929 until 1933, when he mo ...
* 1949:
Joseph Marin
* 1950:
Rolf Eliassen
* 1951: Glenn Murphy
* 1952:
Gordon S. Brown
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* 1953:
Edward F. Obert
* 1954:
Thomas J. Higgins
* 1955:
Robert R. White
* 1956:
Milton C. Shaw
* 1957:
Robert E. Greybal
* 1958:
Willis W. Harman
* 1959:
Max S. Peters
* 1960:
R. Byron Bird
* 1961:
David C. White
* 1962:
Paul M. Naghdi
* 1963:
Mac E. Van Valkenburg
* 1964:
Cedomir M. Sliepcevich
* 1965:
John G. Truxal
* 1966:
Ali B. Cambel
* 1967:
Charles L. Miller
* 1968:
Klaus D. Timmerhaus
* 1969:
Arthur E. Bryson, Jr.
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* 1970:
Ali A. Seireg
* 1971:
Charles E. Wales
* 1972:
Jack P. Holman
* 1973:
Martin D. Bradshaw
* 1974:
Joseph Bordogna
* 1975:
Donald G. Childers
* 1976:
Jerome B. Cohen
* 1977:
Roger A. Schmitz
* 1978:
C. Judson King
* 1979:
J. Michael Duncan
* 1980:
William B. Krantz
* 1981:
Leroy S. "Skip" Fletcher
* 1982:
Stephen J O'Brien
* 1983:
Frank P. Incropera
* 1984:
Phillip C. Wankat
* 1985:
Sunder H. Advani
* 1986:
Gerald W. Clough
* 1987:
John H. Seinfeld
* 1988:
Thomas F. Edgar
* 1989:
Kenneth E. Case
* 1990:
Y.A. Liu
* 1991:
Magdy F. Iskander
* 1992:
Nicholas A. Peppas
Nicholas (Nikolaos) A. Peppas ( gr, Νικόλαος Α. Πέππας; born August 25, 1948 in Athens, Greece) is a Chemical engineering, chemical and Biomedical engineering, biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterial, biomaterials science ...
* 1993:
Rajendra Singh
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* 1994:
Gretchen Kalonji
Gretchen Lynn Kalonji (born April 13, 1953) is an American materials scientist and academic administrator. She is dean of Sichuan University-Hong Kong Polytechnic University Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction. Kalonji was previ ...
* 1995:
Denice Denton
Denice Dee Denton (August 27, 1959 – June 24, 2006) was an American professor of electrical engineering and academic administrator. She was the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Biography
Early years
Denton was ...
* 1996:
C. Stewart Slater
* 1997:
Cristina H. Amon
* 1998:
James P. Schaffer
* 1999:
Pradeep K. Khosla
See also
*
List of engineering awards
This list of engineering awards is an index to articles about notable awards for achievements in engineering. It includes aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, structural e ...
References
External links
Westinghouse's principal foundation for the company's social investments.
Education awards
Engineering awards
American Society for Engineering Education
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