ASME Medal

ASME Medal
Awarded forhighest award bestowed to recognize “eminently distinguished engineering achievement.”
CountryUnited States
Presented byASME
Reward(s)Certificate, honorarium and Medal
First awarded1920
Website[1]

The ASME Medal, created in 1920, is the highest award bestowed by the ASME (founded as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Board of Governors for "eminently distinguished engineering achievement".[1][2] The award has been presented every year since 1996 (first medalist was awarded in 1921), and it consists of a $15,000 honorarium,[2] a certificate, a travel supplement not to exceed $750, and a gold medal inscribed with the words, "What is not yet, may be".[3]

ASME also gives out a number of other awards yearly, including the Edwin F. Church Medal, the Holley medal, and the Soichiro Honda medal.[4]

  1. ^ Dawson, Virginia P. (1996), "Knowledge is power: E. G. Bailey and the invention and marketing of the Bailey Boiler Meter", Technology and Culture, 37 (3 (July 1996)): 493–526, doi:10.2307/3107162, JSTOR 3107162.
  2. ^ a b "ASME Medal". ASME. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
  3. ^ The American Engineer, 14 (1944–1945): 24, 1944. {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "Honors and Awards". ASME. Retrieved 2012-02-29.