Melville Medal

The Melville Medal is the highest ASME honor for the best original paper (not published elsewhere) which has been published in the ASME Transactions during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award. The paper may have more than one author, but one of the authors shall be an ASME corporate member (Fellow, Member or Associate Member). The paper shall be specifically recommended for the medal by a review committee or qualified individual.

The Melville Medal may be awarded for a paper that has been selected for some other best paper award in the Society. Thus, papers selected for special awards (Blackall, Prime Movers, Gas Turbine or Rail Transportation) or for best paper awards of professional Divisions, Sections or other ASME bodies may be considered for the Melville Medal if specifically recommended by the committee responsible for the award.

First awarded in 1927, the Melville Medal is by the bequest in 1914 of Admiral George W. Melville, Honorary Member and Eighteenth President of the Society.

Form of Award:  $2000, bronze medal, certificate, and a $750 travel allowance
Limitation(s): One author must be a Corporate Member of ASME.  Best original paper (not published elsewhere) which has been published in the ASME Transactions during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award.
Administrative Responsiblility: General Awards Committee (GAC)
Nomination Deadline: February 1
Email: persaudl@asme.org
Awarded By: Committee on Honors (COH)

Melville Medalists

2024 R. Renee Zhao
Jize Dai
Lu Lu
Sophie Leanza
John W. Hutchinson
2023 Xue Feng
Yinji Ma
Heling Wang
Ying Chen
Hairui Wang
Chen Wei
Yao Zhang
2022 Glaucio H. Paulino
Ke Liu
Tomohiro Tachi
2017 Qiang Ma
Yihui Zhang
2016 Xianbo Liu
Nicholas Vlajic
Xinhua Long
Guang Meng
Balakumar Balachandran
2015 Parnia Mohammadi
Liping Liu
Pradeep Sharma
2013 Ahmed E.E. Khalil
Ashwani K. Gupta
Kenneth M. Bryden
Sang C. Lee
2009 James Armor
Paul Cantin
David Christensen
Manuj Dhingra
David Gutz
Yedidia Neumeier
J.V.R. Prasad
Peter N. Szucs
Aspi R. Wadia
2006 Raj M. Manglik
Juntao Zhang
2004 Peng Zhang
Yonggang Huang
Huajian Gao
Keh-Chih Hwang
2003 Brent F. Beacher
Fredric F. Ehrich
Zoltan S. Spakovszky
Manuel Martinez-Sanchez
Hyoun-Woo Shin
Seung J. Song
Albert F. Storace
David C. Wisler
2001 Robert E. Kielb
Josef Panovsky
1999 Aspi R. Wadia
Peter N. Szucs
David W. Crall
1998 David E. Halstead
David W. Crall
David C. Wisler
Gregory J. Walker
Howard P. Hodson
Hyoun-Woo Shin
1997 Michael D. Buschmann
Alan J. Grodzinsky
1996 Yaqi Huang
David S. Rumschitzki
Shu Chien
Sheldon Weinbaum
1995 Flaura K. Winston
Lawrence L. Thibault
Edward J. Macarak
1994 Yuan-Cheng B. Fung
Shu Qian Liu
1993 Stephen C. Cowin
Ali M. Sadegh
G. M. Luo
1992 Arunava Majumdar
Bharat Bhushan
1991 Akira Sakurai
Masahiro Shiotsu
Koichi Hata
1990 Cheng Dong
Richard Skalak
Kuo-Li Paul Sung
G.W. Schmid-Schoenbein
Shu Chien
1989 David C. Wisler
Randall C. Bauer
Theodore H. Okiishi
1988 Theodore L. Bergman
Frank P. Incropera
Raymond Viskanta
1987 Dennis L. Siebers
Robert J. Moffat
Richard G. Schwind
1986 Robert W. Bjorge
Peter Griffith
1985 Lung-Wen Tsai
Alexander P. Morgan
1984 Michael F. Blair
1983 Albert M. C. Chan
Sanjoy Banerjee
1982 Van C. Mow
Steve C. Kuei
W. Michael Lai
Cecil G. Armstrong
1981 Kyung-Suk Kim
Rodney J. Clifton
1980 Ravi Chandran
John C. Chen
Fred W. Staub
1979 Thomas J.R.
Hughes W.K. Liu
1978 D.E. Negrelli
J.R. Lloyd
J.L. Novotny
1977 Eugene F. Fitcher
Kenneth H. Hunt
1976 Bernard J. Hamrock
Duncan Dowson
1975 David M. Sanborn
A. V. Turchina
Ward O. Winer
1974 V. H. Arakeri
Allan J. Acosta
1972 H. W. O'Connor
A. S. Weinstei
1971 Thomas Slot
1970 J William Holl
A. L. Kornhauser
1969 Leon R. Glicksman
1968 Yian-Nian Chen
1967 Bernard Roth
1965 W. A. Van Der Sluys
1964 J. K. Jakobsen
1963 J. S. Ausman
1962 T. P. Goodman
1961 Otto Erich Balje
1960 William G. Steltz
1959 Stephen J. Kline
1958 Thomas P. Goodman
1955 Robert T. Knapp
1954 Edmund Sylvester
1953 Jefferson Falkner
1952 Neil P. Bailey
1951 Clayton Barnard
1950 Samuel J. Loring
1948 Reginald Gillmor
1947 Raymond Martinelli
1946 Troels Warming
1945 William J. King
1944 Ernest Robinson
1942 Kenneth Salisbury
1941 Roger V. Terry
1940 Carl A. W. Brandt
1939 Lester Goldsmith
1938 Alphonse Lipetz
1937 Alfred J. Buchi
1936 H. A. S. Howarth
1935 Oscar R. Wikander
1933 William Caldwell
1931 Arthur Grunert
1930 Herman Diederichs
William Pomeroy
1929 Joseph W. Roe
1927 Leon P. Alford

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