American Welding Society - Awards Programs
 AWARDS PROGRAMS

2009 AWARD WINNERS

Comfort A. Adams Lecture Award
Dr. Wayne Thomas

Adams Memorial Membership Award
Dr. Horst Cerjak

Howard E. Adkins Memorial Instructor Membership Award
Darryl K. Main

Robert J. Conkling Memorial Award

   First Place – High School
    Shelby County School of Technology
    Columbiana, Alabama

  First Place-Post Secondary
    Wallace State College
    Hanceville, Alabama

A. F. Davis Silver Medal Award
Machine Design
   Dr. Kehai Li
   Dr. Yu Ming Zhang

Maintenance & Surfacing
   Dr. Valdemar Malin
  Dr. Federico Sciammarella

Structure Design
   (No presentation this year)

Dalton E. Hamilton Memorial CWI of the Year Award

Phil Zammit

W. H. Hobart Memorial Award

Dr. Jose E. Ramirez

Honorary Membership Award

Jack Dammann
Lee. G. Kvidahl

International Meritorious Certificate Award
Douglas R. Luciani
Walter J. Sperko

William Irrgang Memorial Award
Chandra Bhushan C. Girotra

Charles H. Jennings Memorial Award
Maria Carolina Payares-Asprino
Hiroshi Katsumoto
Dr. Stephen Liu

James F. Lincoln Gold Medal Award
David A. Metzler

McKay-Helm Award
Nick Kapustka
Chris Conrardy
Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu
Dr. C. E. "Charley" Albright

Professor Koichi Masubuchi Award
Dr. Yutaka S. Sato

Samuel Wylie Miller Memorial Medal Award
Robert Leon Peaslee
(Posthumous Recognition)

National Meritorious Award
Alfred B. Circhton
Jay Leno

Robert L. Peaslee Brazing Award
Dr. Ahmed Elrefaey
Dr. Wolfgang Tillmann

Plummer Memorial Education Lecture Award
Jack D. Compton

Private Sector Instructor Membership Award
(No presentation this year)

Safety and Health Award
(No presentation this year)

Warren F. Savage Memorial Award
Dr. Youngki Yang
Dr. Honggang Dong
Dr. Hongbo Cao
Dr. Y. Austin Chang
Dr. Sindo Kou

Silver Quill Editorial Achievement Award
(No presentation this year)

William Spraragen Memorial Award
Dr. George A. Young
Thomas Capobianco
Michael A. Penik
Brian W. Morris
James J. McGee

R. D. Thomas Memorial Award
Dr. Warren A. Miglietti

Elihu Thomson Resistance Welding Award

Larry E. Moss

George E. Willis Award
Thomas M. Mustaleski, Jr.


For information regarding the AWS National Awards Program, contact:

Wendy Sue Reeve
Senior Manager
Award Programs and Administrative Support
wreeve@aws.org
550 N.W. LeJeune Road, Miami, Florida 33126
1-800-443-9353 x 293, email