ESD Affiliate Council Gold Award
At a special banquet each February, the ESD Affiliate Council (made up of 92 societies) presents its most prestigious tribute, The Gold Award, to honor an outstanding engineer or scientist. Each society may nominate one individual; all nominations received are then judged by a group comprised of past Affiliate Council presidents.
Past Recipients
1972 Walker Cisler
1973 Russell D. O’Neal, PhD
1974 Walter Kapryan, PhD
1975 Kasimer Fajans, PhD
1976 Joseph B. Olivieri, PE, FESD
1977 Sumner B. Twiss, PhD
1978 Wayne H. Jens, PhD
1979 Stephen R. Davis, PhD, FESD
1980 Fabian C. Polcyn
1981 George E. F. Brewer, PhD
1982 Hansraj Bajaria, PhD
1983 Julius J. Harwood, PhD, FESD
1984 Martin J. Caserio
1985 Richard E. Marburger, PhD, FESD
1986 William G. Wood
1987 Ruth A. Reck, PhD
1988 Edgar E. Parks, PE, FESD
1989 Shirley E. Schwartz
1990 Ralph H. Kummler, PhD, FESD
1991 Harold C. MacDonald, PhD, FESD
1992 Not Given
1993 William W. Scherkenbach
1994 Rose A. Ryntz, PhD
1995 Stanley Kirschner, PhD
1996 Norman A. Gjostein, PhD, FESD
1997 Kurt C. Frisch
1998 Fred W. Beaufait, PhD, FESD
1999 Simon C. Tung, PhD, FESD
2000 Not Given
2001 Jack G. Simon, PhD
2002 John R. Keough, PE, FASM
2003 Norm Kakarala, PhD
2004 John C. Bierlein, PhD
2005 Edward P. Czapor
2006 Vinod K. Sahney, PhD
2007 Levi Thompson, PhD
2008 Mumtaz A. Usmen, PhD, PE, FESD
2009 Suresh Shah, PhD
2010 Steven J. Kirk, PhD, FAIA, FSVE, CVS, LEED AP
2011 Gordon V.R. Holness, PE, Fellow ASHRAE, FMSPE
2012 Lewis N. Walker, PhD, PE
2013 Donald K. Cohen, PhD
2014 Kush Shah, CQE, CMQ/OE, CSSBB, Red-X Master, CQA, CBA
2015 Irvin E. Poston, PE, FESD
2016 Dawn M. Tilbury, PhD
2017 Pranab Saha, PE, PhD, INCE Bd Cert, FESD
2018 Edward P. Becker, PE, PhD
2019 Mark Zachos
2020 Arup Gangopadhyay, PhD, Fellow STLE
2021 Janice K. Means, PE, LEED AP, FESD
2022 Wei Sun, PE