The NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal (abbreviated EEAM) was established by NASA in 1981 to recognize unusually significant engineering contributions towards achievement of aeronautical or space exploration goals. This award is given for individual efforts for applications of engineering principles or methods that have resulted in a contribution of fundamental importance in this field or have significantly enhanced understanding of this field or have significantly advanced the state of the practice as demonstrated by an application to aerospace systems.

Recent recipients

2006

2006 award recipients include: * Claude A. Bryant * Keyur C. Patel *

Frank J. Vaughn Frank, FRANK, or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a Germanic people in late Roman times * Franks, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusa ...

* Walter C. Engelund * Donald R. Pettit *

Russell A. Wincheski Russell may refer to: People * Russell (given name) * Russell (surname) * Lady Russell (disambiguation) * Lord Russell (disambiguation) ** Bertrand Russell *Justice Russell (disambiguation) Places *Russell Island (disambiguation) *Mount Russel ...

John P. McManamen John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Ep ...

* John W. Slater *

Russell A. Paielli Russell may refer to: People * Russell (given name) * Russell (surname) * Lady Russell (disambiguation) * Lord Russell (disambiguation) ** Bertrand Russell *Justice Russell (disambiguation) Places *Russell Island (disambiguation) *Mount Russel ...

James L. Walker James L. Walker (June 1845 – April 2, 1904), sometimes known by the pen name Tak Kak, was an American individualist anarchism, individualist anarchist of the Egoist anarchism, Egoist school, born in Manchester, United Kingdom. Walker was on ...

2007

2007 award recipients include: * James Baughman * Kendall Brown * Steven Fredrickson * Charles Harris * Michael Kirsch * Chia-Yen Peng *

Scott Berry Scott Berry (born July 20, 1962) is an American baseball coach and former catcher, who is the former head baseball coach of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles. He played college baseball at Crowder College from 1983 to 1984. He then served as the ...

* Michael Burms * Lawrence Freudinger * Eastwood Im * Joseph Lavelle * Todd Bonalsky * K. Cramer * Robert Hall * David Iverson * Pappu Murthy * Shannon Bragg-Sitton *

John Edwards Johnny Reid Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who represented North Carolina in the United States Senate from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the vice presidential nominee under ...

* Steven Harrah * Steven Jones * Shahana Pagen

2008

2008 award recipients include: * W. Keith Belvin *

Charles Camarda Charles Joseph "Charlie" Camarda (born May 8, 1952, in Queens, New York) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who flew his first mission into space on board the Space Shuttle mission STS-114. He served as Senior Advisor for Engineering Dev ...

Dennis J. Eichenberg Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius. The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is sometime ...

* Stephen F. Harvin * Roger Mattson * Stephen Scotti * John A. Wagner * Thomas F. Zoladz *

Jeffrey S. Boyer Jeffrey may refer to: * Jeffrey (name), including a list of people with the name *Jeffrey's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada *Jeffrey City, Wyoming, United States *Jeffrey Street, Sydney, Australia *Jeffreys Bay, Western Cape, South Africa Art ...

* Rebecca Castano * Ronald M. Galvez *Dan Jackson *

Robert E. McMurray The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...

* Stephen Snodgrass * William P. Winfree * John R. Brophy * Brian K. Cooper *

Thomas W. Goodnight Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

* William A. Kilgore *

Patrick F. Morrissey Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint * Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick o ...

Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, is a Ghanaian robotics engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the chief engineer and technical group leader for the mobility and manipulation group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory He ha ...

* Michael J. Wright * Jay Brusse * Lyle T. Davis * George R. Harpster * David J. Mangus * David J. Pogue * Glenn Rakow *

Katherine P. Vanhooser Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Christian sa ...

* Pen-Shu Yeh

2009

2009 award recipients include: * Ayman A. Abdallah * Shawn P. Breeding * Prasun N. Desai * Mark G. Femminineo * Lorie R. Grimes-Ledesma * Jonathan E. Jones * Mary J. Li * Daniel L. Polis * Michael J. Schuh *

John M. Van Eepoel John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Ep ...

* Shannon J. Zelinski * Mark A. Balzer * Chad B. Bryant * Theodore R. Drain * Gerard Floyd * Scott Hensley * Dennis L. Kern * Frank S. Milos * John K. Ramsey * Regina L. Spellman * Philip R. Ward * Thomas G. Bialas * James M. Corliss * Michael J. Dube * Dion T. Fralick * Brent W. Jett *

Won S. Kim Won may refer to: * Won Buddhism, a specific form of Korean Buddhism Names * Won (Korean surname) * Won (Korean given name) Currencies *Korean won (disambiguation) Other uses *Won (injustice), ''Won'' (injustice), a social concept in th ...

* Bo J. Naasz * Giulio Rosanova * Thomas R. Stevenson * Harold D. Wiedemuth * Richard K. Bird * Michael J. Deliz * Sandra K. Elam * Gani B. Ganapathi *

William T. K. Johnson William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is ...

* Raymond J. Lanzi * Allen R. Parker * Dara Sabahi * Oscar Toledo *Thomas C. Williams

2010

2010 award recipients include: * Timothy C. Adams * Steve N. Beck *

Ed Cheung Ed, ed or ED may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Ed'' (film), a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc * Ed (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Edward Elric, a character in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' media * ''Ed'' (TV series), a TV series that ran fro ...

Myron A. Diftler Myron of Eleutherae (480–440 BC) (; , ''Myrōn'' ) was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. Alongside three other Greek sculptors, Polykleitos Pheidias, and Praxiteles, Myron is considered as one of the most important sculptors of ...

* Thomas Friedmann * Martin B. Houghton *

Eugene A. Morelli Eugene may refer to: People and fictional characters * Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Gene Eugene, stage name of Canadian born actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musi ...

* Paul W. Roberts *

James Taylor James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the single "Fi ...

* Dennis Albaijes * Daniel L. Berry * D. Steven Cooley * Marcia S. Domack *

Daniel B. Gazda Daniel commonly refers to: * Daniel (given name), a masculine given name and a surname * List of people named Daniel * List of people with surname Daniel * Daniel (biblical figure) * Book of Daniel, a biblical apocalypse, "an account of the activi ...

* Young K. Kim *

David E. Myers David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...

* Jose I. Rodriguez * John C. Thesken * Christian C. Bechtold * Kevin R. Boyce *

Mark G. D’Agostino Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currenc ...

Richard E. Dyke Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and ...

* Michael G. Gilbert * Darlene S. Lee * Janiene Pape * Don J. Roth * Jirong Yu * Robin A. Beck * Scott C. Burleigh * Paul M. Danehy * David F. Everett * Mark W. Hilburger * Joseph C. Lewiz * John C. Pearson * Henry P. Sampler * Daniel E. Yuchnovicz

2011

2011 award recipients include: * Xin An *

Jay Brandon Jays are a paraphyletic grouping of passerine birds within the family Corvidae. Although the term "jay" carries no taxonomic weight, most or all of the birds referred to as jays share a few similarities: they are small to medium-sized, usually ...

* William M. Cirillo *

Robert Fong Robert King Fong (born 1960) is a United States Democratic Party politician who is a former member of the Sacramento City Council. He was first elected to that post in 2004 and was reelected in 2008 without opposition. In December 2012, he was r ...

* Charles E. Hall * David G. Johnson * Justin H. Kerr * Jeffrey L. Lindner * Fred G. Martwick * Bijan Nemati * Mark A. Stephen *

Nathan C. Wood Nathan or Natan may refer to: People and biblical figures *Nathan (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name *Nathan (surname) *Nathan (prophet), a person in the Hebrew Bible *Nathan (son of David), a biblical figur ...

* Robert J. Black * Stephen T. Bryson * Anthony L. Cook * Bryan Fraser * Richard R. Hofer * Ira Katz * Denney J. Keys *

Alok K. Majumdar Alok is an Indian given name of Sanskrit origin. People with the given name Alok *Alok (DJ) (born 1991), Brazilian DJ and music producer *Alok Bhargava (born 1954), Indian-American econometrician * Alok Chatterjee (1960/1961–2025), Indian theatre ...

* Ioannis G. Mikellides * Jeffrey R. Piepmeier * John S. Townsend * Ping Y. Yu * Kristin L. Bourkland *

Hon M. Chan Hon or HON may refer to: People Given name * Cho Hŏn (1544–1592), Joseon militia leader * Ho Hon (1885–1951), North Korean politician Surname * Han (Chinese surname), Han (surname) (Chinese: 韩/韓), also romanized Hon * Louis Hon (19 ...

* Kimberly B. Demoret *

Dan M. Goebel Dan or DAN may refer to: People * Dan (name), including a list of people with the name ** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark * Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa **Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoir ...

Megan K. Jaunich Megan is a Welsh feminine given name, originally a diminutive form of Margaret. Margaret is from the Greek μαργαρίτης (''margarítēs''), Latin ''margarīta'', "pearl". Megan is one of the most popular Welsh-language names for women in ...

* Sotirios Kellas * Todd Klaus * Gregory C. Marr * Kathleen Andreozzi Minear * Mark Schoenenberger * Albert C. Whittlesey * Randy R. Bowman * Steven R. Chesley * Thomas P. Flatley * Karen L. Gundy-Burlet * Wayne A. Jermstad * Daniel P. Kelly * Dzu K. Le *

Dr. G. Patrick Martin Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, w ...

* Nelson Morales *

V. S. Scott ''V.'' is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohe ...

* Donna V. Wilson

2012

2012 award recipients include: * Sasan C. Armand * Robert B. Ciotti * Omar A. Haddad * Michael G. Houts * Sean D. McCauliff * Craig R. Pires *Michael S. Woronowicz *Ponnampalam Balakumar *Douglas D. Counter *Douglas Hamilton *Jeffery Kolodziejczak *Donald B. Owens *Sriram Rallabhandi *Michael E. Yettaw *Steven X. Bauer *Brett A. Cruden *James T. Heineck *Jer C. Liou *Grant E. Palmer *Patrick A. Tobbe *James A. Chervenak *Bob Downing *Gerard Holzmann *Duncan MacPherson *Peter A. Parker *David H. Williams

2013

2013 award recipients include: *Phillip A. Allen *Philip C. Calhoun *Samuel B. Fowler *Louise Jandura *Carl Liebe (aerospace), Carl Liebe *Benjamin J. Pearson *Edward T. Schairer *Christopher V. Voorhees *Daniel C. Allgood *Benjamin D. Cichy *William J. Glaccum *Roy R. Johnson *David M. O'Dell *Keith Peterson (aerospace), Keith Peterson *Peter J. Shirron *Jeffrey S. West *Steven F. Balistreri *Patrick H. Dunlap *Ken Hersey *John T. Kaneshige *Jeb Stuart Orr *Tommaso P. Rivellini *Eric M. Slimko *Todd White (aerospace), Todd White *Kevin E. Berry *Rodger E. Farley *Russell W. James *Bradford Kercheval *Hume L. Peabody *Alejandro Miguel San Martin *Shaun R. Thomson *David A. Zoller

2014

2014 award recipients include: *Michael J. Aftosmis *Gajanana C. Birur *Michael G. Burns *William J. Downs *Stephen D. Hunter *Erich F. Klein *Christopher Miller (aerospace), Christopher Miller *Robin J. Osborne *

*Gary A. Allen, Jr. *Albion H. Bowers *Nathan J. Burnside *Stuart D. Glazer *Jeffrey M. Jaso *James C. Knox *Marcus S. Murbach *Timothy J. Ray *Douglas N. Wells *Anthony P. Bartolone *Aaron M. Brandis *Andrew J. Cecil *Michael R. Hannan *Ralph Jones (aerospace), Ralph Jones *Dmitry G. Luchinsky *Thomas E. Nolan *Donald V. Sullivan *William A. Wood *Mehdi Benna *Nelson A. Brown *Jeffrey Cheezum *David B. Harper *Peter E. Kascak *Pamela A. McVeigh *Salvatore M. Oriti *John M. Tota *Tony Yu

2015

2015 award recipients include: *Cecil W. Acree *Sundareswara Balakrishna *Gregory L. Barnett *Karen L. Bibb *Arthur T. Bradley *Jeffrey S. Brink *Robert J. Bruckner *Donald L. Carter *Benjamin D. Cichy *Eric C. Dimpault-Darcy *Tammy D. Flowers *Ulrik B. Gliese *Michael H. Haddock *Philip J. Hamory *Patricia A. Howell *Thomas P. Jasin *Timothy J. Ray *Robert J. Kenny *Michael P. Kovach *Lisa M. Ling *Forrest E. Lumpkin *Diego F. Pierrottet *David L. Pletcher *Steven Z. Queen *Stuart E. Rogers *Alan M. Schwing *David A. Sheppard *Robert W. Stough *Sean S. Swei *Chun Y. Tang *Paulo F. Uribe *Donald E. Van Drei *Gary K. Won

2016

2016 award recipients include: *Morgan B. Abney *Jeffrey L. Coughlin *Paul S. Kinard *Christopher I. Morris *Mark V. Vaccaro *John W. Van Norman

2017

2017 award recipients include: *Christopher D. Karlgaard *Thomas A. Ozoroski

2018

2018 award recipients: *Jessie Christiansen, Jessie L. Christiansen *Theodore J. Garbeff *Cole D. Kazemba *Jayanta Panda *Stefan R. Schuet *Zion W. Young

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