Nominations Due for ASME Honors and Awards

Nominations Due for ASME Honors and Awards Nominations Due for ASME Honors and Awards Nominations Due for ASME Honors and Awards Nominations are now being accepted for four prestigious Society honors the ASME Medal, Honorary Membership, the Holley Medal and the Henry Hess Award. March 1 is the deadline to submit nominations for the awards, which will be presented at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in November.The ASME Medal, which was established in 1920, is the highest award that the Society can bestow. The medal recognizes eminently distinguished engineering achievement. The winner will receive a $15,000 honorarium, a gold medal, a certificate and an expense supplement to attend the award presentation. For mora information, visit http//bit.ly/1FuZCgn. ASME Honorary Membership, which is the highest level of membership in the Society, recognizes distinctive contributions to engineering, science, industry, research, public service, or other pursuits allied with and beneficial to the engineering profession. The recipient will receive a silver medal, a certificate, a lapel pin and an expense supplement to attend the award presentation. For more information on ASME Honorary Membership, visit http//bit.ly/185UrIO. Established in 1924 to honor ASME charter member Alexander Lyman Holley, the Holley Medal is presented to an individual who has accomplished a great and timely public benefit by some great and unique act of an engineering nature. The recipient will receive a $1,000 honorarium, vermeil medal, a certificate, a lapel pin and $1000 honorarium. If there are multiple winners, each will receive $1,000, a medal, a certificate and a lapel pin. To learn more about the Holley Medal, visit http//bit.ly/1Cks1G8. The Henry Hess Award recognizes the best original technical paper by a young author presented to or published by the Society during the two calendar years prior to the year of award. The recipient must be an AS ME member or student member who was under the age of 35 at the time the paper was submitted to the Society. The award consists of a $2,500 honorarium, a certificate and a travel expense supplement. For more details, visit http//bit.ly/1T4B8TC. Nominations for all four awards should be submitted by March 1 by e-mail to Fran McKivor, ASME Honors and Fellows, at mckivorfasme.org. To learn more about the ASME Honors and Awards program, visit www.asme.org/about-asme/get-involved/honors-awards.