The George Westinghouse Award, named after George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse, Jr was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system...

, was given by the American Society for Engineering Education

American Society for Engineering Education

The American Society for Engineering Education is a non-profit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and engineering technology education....

 (ASEE) for outstanding contributions to engineering education

Engineering education

Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles related to the professional practice of engineering. It includes the initial education for becoming an engineer and any advanced education and specialization that follow...

. 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 was consisting of a honorarium and a certificate.

Recipients

Following people received the George Westinghouse Award:

• 1946: James N. Goodier
  James N. Goodier
  James Norman Goodier was professor of applied mechanics at Stanford University. He was co-author of two classic books in this field:...
  
  
• 1947: B. Richard Teare, Jr.
• 1948: Hunter Rouse
  Hunter Rouse
  Hunter Rouse 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 moved to Columbia University...
  
  
• 1949: Joseph Marin
• 1950: Rolf Eliassen
• 1951: Glenn Murphy
• 1952: Gordon S. Brown
  Gordon S. Brown
  Gordon Stanley Brown was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. He originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems and the numerical control of machine tools. From 1959 to 1968, he served as the dean of MIT's engineering school. With his former student Donald P...
  
  
• 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
  Paul M. Naghdi
  Paul Mansour Naghdi was a professor of mechanical engineering at University of California, Berkeley.He died of lung cancer.-Awards:*George Westinghouse Award of the American Society for Engineering Education...
  
  
• 1963: Mac E. Van Valkenburg
• 1964: Cedomir M. Sliepcevich
• 1965: John G. Truxal
  John G. Truxal
  John G. Truxal was an American control theorist and a Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus at the State University of New York. Truxal was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is noted for his numerous contributions to control theory, for which he received the Richard E....
  
  
• 1966: Ali B. Cambel
• 1967: Charles L. Miller
• 1968: Klaus D. Timmerhaus
• 1969: Arthur E. Bryson, Jr.
• 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: Alan N. Wilson, Jr.
• 1983: Frank P. Incropera
  Frank P. Incropera
  Frank P. Incropera is an American engineer and author. Incropera is the Clifford and Evelyn Brosey Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA...
  
  
• 1984: Phillip C. Wankat
• 1985: Sunder H. Advani
• 1986: Gerald W. Clough
• 1987: John H. Seinfeld
  John H. Seinfeld
  John H. Seinfeld is a expert in the causes and modelling of tropospheric pollution.He grew up in Elmira, NY and attended the University of Rochester, where he received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and Princeton University, where he received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering...
  
  
• 1988: Thomas F. Edgar
• 1989: Kenneth E. Case
• 1990: Y.A. Liu
• 1991: Magdy F. Iskander
• 1992: Nicholas A. Peppas
  Nicholas A. Peppas
  Nicholas A. Peppas is a chemical and biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterials science and engineering, drug delivery, bionanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, chemical and polymer engineering has led to numerous biomedical products or devices.-Education and work:He was educated in...
  
  
• 1993: Rajendra Singh
  Rajendra Singh
  Rajendra Singh is a well known water conservationist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2001 for his pioneering work in community-based efforts in water harvesting and water management. He runs...
  
  
• 1994: Gretchen Kalonji
• 1995: Denice Denton
  Denice Denton
  Denice Dee Denton was an American professor of electrical engineering and academic administrator. She was the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz until her suicide in June 2006.-Early years :...
  
  
• 1996: C. Stewart Slater
• 1997: Cristina H. Amon
• 1998: James P. Schaffer
• 1999: Pradeep K. Khosla

External links

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