List of ASME Presidents
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Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....


  • 1880-1882: Robert Henry Thurston
    Robert Henry Thurston
    Robert Henry Thurston was the first professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology . There he established Stevens’ mechanical engineering curriculum. Historians credit Thurston with establishing the first US mechanical engineering laboratory for conducting funded research...

  • 1883-1884: E. D. Leavitt
    Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr.
    Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr. , also known as E. D. Leavitt, was a noted American mechanical engineer best known for his steam engine designs....

  • 1884-1885: John Edison Sweet
    John Edison Sweet
    John Edison Sweet was an American mechanical engineer who built the first micrometer caliper in 1873, for making tools, and who invented the “straight line” engine. He was a key founder of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1880 and ASME’s third president...

  • 1885-1886: J. E. Holloway
  • 1886-1887: Coleman Sellers
  • 1887-1888: George Herman Babcock
    George Herman Babcock
    George Herman Babcock was an American inventor. He and Stephen Wilcox co-invented a safer water tube steam boiler, and founded the Babcock & Wilcox boiler company....

  • 1888-1889: Horace See
  • 1889-1890: Henry R. Towne
    Henry R. Towne
    Henry Robinson Towne was an American mechanical engineer and businessman.-Early life:Henry R. Towne was the son of John Henry and Maria T. Towne. He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1862, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, but did not complete a degree...

  • 1890-1891: Oberlin Smith
    Oberlin Smith
    Oberlin Smith was an American engineer who published one of the earliest works dealing with magnetic recording in 1888. In an article that appeared in the British magazine - Electrical World, he suggested the use of permanent magnetic impressions for the recording of sound...

  • 1891-1892: Robert W. Hunt
  • 1892-1893: Charles H. Loring
  • 1893-1894: Eckley B. Coxe
  • 1894-1895: E. F. C. Davis
  • 1895-1896: Charles E. Billings
    Charles E. Billings
    Charles Ethan Billings was an American inventor.He was born in Weathersfield, Vermont, the son of Ethan F. and Clarissa M. Billings...

  • 1896-1897: John Fritz
  • 1897-1898: Worcester R. Warner
    Worcester Reed Warner
    Worcester Reed Warner was an American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Ambrose Swasey he cofounded the Warner & Swasey Company.-Biographical sketch:...

  • 1898-1899: Charles Wallace Hunt
  • 1899-1900: George W. Melville
  • 1900-1901: Charles H. Morgan
  • 1901-1902: Samuel T. Wellman
    Samuel T. Wellman
    Samuel Thomas Wellman, was an American steel industry pioneer, industrialist, and prolific inventor. Wellman was a close friend of electrical pioneer George Westinghouse, and Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel described Samuel T. Wellman as "the man who did more than any other living person in...

  • 1902-1903: Edwin Reynolds
  • 1903-1904: James M. Dodge
  • 1904-1905: Ambrose Swasey
    Ambrose Swasey
    Ambrose Swasey was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Worcester R. Warner he co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company....

  • 1905-1906: John R. Freeman
  • 1906-1907: Frederick W. Taylor
  • 1907-1908: F. R. Hutton
  • 1908-1909: Minard L. Holman
  • 1909-1910: Jesse M. Smith
  • 1910-1911: 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...

  • 1911-1912: E.D. Meier
  • 1912-1913: Alex. C. Humphreys
  • 1913-1914: W. F. M. Goss
  • 1914-1915: James Hartness
    James Hartness
    James Hartness was an American inventor; a mechanical engineer; an entrepreneur who mentored other inventors to develop their machine tool products and create a thriving industrial center in southeastern Vermont; an amateur astronomer who fostered the construction of telescopes by amateurs in his...

  • 1915-1916: John A. Brashear
  • 1916-1917: David S. Jacobus
  • 1917-1918: Ira N. Hollis
  • 1918-1919: Charles T. Main
  • 1919-1920: Mortimer E. Cooley
  • 1920-1921: Fred J. Miller
  • 1921-1922: Edwin S. Carman
  • 1922-1923: Dexter S. Kimball
  • 1923-1924: John L. Harrington
  • 1924-1925: Fred R. Low
  • 1925-1926: Wm. F. Durand
  • 1926-1927: Wm. L. Abbot
  • 1927-1928: Charles M. Schwab
    Charles M. Schwab
    Charles Michael Schwab was an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world....

  • 1928-1929: Alex Dow
    Alex Dow
    Alex Dow was a Scottish-born US engineer.Alex Dow was born in Scotland in 1862. He emigrated to the US in 1882.In 1893, as a result of Hazen Pingree's efforts to break the power of corporations over Detroit City politics, Detroit built a municipally-owned power plant...

  • 1929-1930: Elmer A. Sperry
  • 1930-1931: Charles Piez
  • 1931-1932: Roy V. Wright
  • 1932-1933: Conrad N. Lauer
  • 1933-1934: A. A. Potter
  • 1934: Paul Doty
  • 1934-1936: Ralph E. Flanders
    Ralph Flanders
    Ralph Edward Flanders was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island, became an apprentice first as a machinist, then as a draftsman, before training as a mechanical engineer...

  • 1936-1937: Wm. Batt
  • 1937-1938: James H. Herron
  • 1938-1939: Harvey N. Davis
  • 1939-1940: Alexander G. Christie
  • 1940-1941: Warren H. McBryde
  • 1941-1942: Wm. A. Hanley
  • 1942-1943: James W. Parker
  • 1943-1944: H. V. Coes
  • 1944-1945: R. M. Gates
  • 1945-1946: Alex D. Bailey
  • 1946-1947: D. R. Yarnall
  • 1947-1948: Eugene W. O'Brien
  • 1948-1949: E. G. Bailey
  • 1949-1950: James Todd
  • 1950-1951: James I. Cunningham
  • 1951-1952: J. Calvin Brown
  • 1952-1953: R. J. S. Pigott
  • 1953-1954: Frederick S. Blackall Jr.
  • 1954-1955: L. K. Sillcox
  • 1955-1956: D. W. R. Morgan
  • 1956-1957: Joseph W. Barker
  • 1957-1958: Wm. F. Ryan
  • 1958-1959: James N. Landis
  • 1959-1960: Glenn B. Warren
  • 1960-1961: Walker Lee Cisler
    Walker Lee Cisler
    Walker Lee Cisler was a noted American engineer, business executive, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering....

  • 1961-1962: Wm. H. Bryne
  • 1962-1963: Clifford H. Shumaker
  • 1963-1964: Ronald B. Smith
  • 1964-1965: D. Elmer Bergman
  • 1965-1966: Henry N. Muller
  • 1966-1967: James H. Harlow
  • 1967-1968: Louis N. Rowley Jr.
  • 1968-1969: George F. Habach
  • 1969-1970: Donald E. Marlowe
  • 1970-1971: Allen F. Rhodes
  • 1971-1972: Kenneth A. Roe
  • 1972-1973: Richard G. Folsom
  • 1973-1974: Daniel C. Drucker
  • 1974-1975: Richard B. Robertson
  • 1975-1976: Charles L. Tutt Jr.
    Charles L. Tutt Jr.
    Charles Leaming Tutt Jr. was a well known figure in the history of Colorado Springs. Born in Coronado, California, he was the eldest son of Charles L. Tutt , his granthfather Charles L. Tutt was a notable miner...

  • 1976-1977: Earle C. Miller
  • 1977-1978: Stothe P. Kezios
  • 1978-1979: Arval L. Lewis
  • 1979-1980: Donald N. Zwiep
  • 1980-1981: Charles E. Jones
  • 1981-1982: Robert B. Gaither
  • 1982-1983: Serge Gratch
  • 1983-1984: Frank M. Scott
  • 1984-1985: George Kotnick
  • 1985-1986: Leroy S. Fletcher
  • 1986-1987: Nancy D. Fitzroy
  • 1987-1988: Richard Rosenberg
  • 1988-1989: Ernest L. Daman
  • 1989-1990: Charles O. Velzy
  • 1990-1991: Arthur E. Bergles
  • 1991-1992: Nathan H. Hurt
  • 1992-1993: Joseph A. Falcon
  • 1993-1994: John H. Fernandes
  • 1994-1995: Paul J. Torpey
  • 1995-1996: Daniel T. Koenig
  • 1996-1997: Richard J. Goldstein
  • 1997-1998: Keith B. Thayer
  • 1998-1999: Winfred M. Phillips
  • 1999-2000: Robert E. Nickell
  • 2000-2001: John R. Parker
  • 2001-2002: William A. Weiblen
  • 2002-2003: Susan H. Skemp
  • 2003-2004: Reginald I. Vachon
  • 2004-2005: Harry Armen
  • 2005-2006: Gene E. Feigel
  • 2006-2007: Terry E. Shoup
  • 2007-2008: Sam Y. Zamrik
  • 2008-2009: Thomas M. Barlow
  • 2009-2010: Amos E. Holt
  • 2010-2011: Robert T. Simmons
  • 2011-Current: Victoria A. Rockwell
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