ASME Medal

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ASME Medal
Awarded forhighest award bestowed to recognize “eminently distinguished engineering achievement.”
Country United States
Presented by ASME
Reward(s)Certificate, honorarium and Medal
First awarded1920
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The ASME Medal, created in 1920, is the highest award bestowed by the ASME (founded as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Board of Governors for "eminently distinguished engineering achievement". [1] [2] The award has been presented every year since 1996 (first medalist was awarded in 1921), and it consists of a $15,000 honorarium, [2] a certificate, a travel supplement not to exceed $750, and a gold medal inscribed with the words, "What is not yet, may be". [3]

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ASME also gives out a number of other awards yearly, including the Edwin F. Church Medal, the Holley medal, and the Soichiro Honda medal. [4]

List of recipients

Source: ASME

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