Mechanical Engineering

ME Hall of Fame

2006 Award Winners | Submit a Nomination

Welcome to Mechanical Engineering's Hall of Fame, inaugurated in the centennial year of the department (2006). Election to the ME Hall of Fame is intended as a lifetime achievement award to honor ME alumni, former students, faculty, and staff who have made major contributions to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and/or to the Mechanical Engineering discipline. New inductees to the Hall of Fame are recommended by a committee consisting of current Hall of Fame members, faculty, and staff. Committee recommendations must then be approved by a vote of active ME faculty.

The primary criterion to be considered is that the nominee must have made major and lasting contributions to:

New inductees to the ME Hall of Fame are honored during spring graduation ceremonies, held in early June of each year.

Nominating a New Member

Nominations for new ME Hall of Fame members are welcomed from all interested parties. Nominations received by March 1 of every year will be considered for induction that year.

Instructions on nominating a new member are available HERE.

2006 inaugural inductees who received their awards during the 2006 Centennial celebration were (L–R): Roderick Kirkwood, president of Graham & Co. (retired); Professor Emeritus James Morrison (’54); Donald Petersen (’46), chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Co. (retired); and Professor Emeritus Albert Kobayashi (’52)

Other inductees included Paul M. Anderson (’67), chairman and CEO of Duke Energy; Everett Owen Eastwood (posthumous), Professor and ME Chair (1905–47); Frank D. Robinson (’57), president and chairman, Robinson Helicopter Co.; and Karsten C. Solheim (posthumous), inventor of Ping golf clubs.