Source: Elmer A. Sperry award • 1955
William Francis Gibbs, for the development of the
SS United States • 1956
Donald W. Douglas, for the DC series of air transport planes • 1957
Harold L. Hamilton,
Richard M. Dilworth and
Eugene W. Kettering, for developing the
diesel-electric locomotive • 1958
Ferdinand Porsche (in memoriam) and
Heinz Nordhoff, for development of the
Volkswagen automobile • 1959 Sir
Geoffrey De Havilland, Major
Frank Halford (in memoriam) and
Charles C. Walker, for the first jet-powered passenger aircraft and engines • 1960
Frederick Darcy Braddon,
Sperry Gyroscope Company, for the three-axis gyroscopic navigational reference • 1961
Robert Gilmore LeTourneau,
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, for large capacity earth moving equipment and giant size tires • 1962
Lloyd J. Hibbard, for applying the
ignitron rectifier to railroad motive power • 1963
Earl A. Thompson, for design and development of the first successful automatic automobile transmission • 1964
Igor Sikorsky and
Michael E. Gluhareff,
Sikorsky Aircraft Division,
United Aircraft Corporation, for developing the high-lift helicopter leading to the
Skycrane • 1965
Maynard Pennell,
Richard L. Rouzie,
John E. Steiner, William H. Cook and
Richard L. Loesch, Jr., Commercial Airplane Division,
Boeing, for the design and manufacture of the family of jet transports, including the
707,
720 and
727 • 1966
Hideo Shima,
Matsutaro Fuji and
Shigenari Oishi,
Japanese National Railways, for developing the
New Tokaido Line • 1967
Edward R. Dye (in memoriam),
Hugh DeHaven and Robert A. Wolf,
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, for their contribution to automotive safety • 1968
Christopher Cockerell and
Richard Stanton-Jones, for the development of commercially useful
hovercraft. • 1969
Douglas C. MacMillan,
M. Nielsen and
Edward L. Teale, Jr. for the design and construction of the
NS Savannah • 1970
Charles Stark Draper of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratories, for the successful application of
inertial guidance systems to commercial air navigation. • 1971
Sedgwick N. Wight (in memoriam) and
George W. Baughman, for development of Centralized Traffic Control on railways • 1972
Leonard S. Hobbs and
Perry W. Pratt of
Pratt & Whitney, for the design and development of the
Pratt & Whitney JT3 turbojet engine • 1973–74
No award • 1975
Jerome L. Goldman,
Frank A. Nemec and
James J. Henry, Friede and Goldman, Inc. and Alfred W. Schwendtner, for the design and development of barge carrying cargo vessels • 1977
Clifford L. Eastburg and
Harley J. Urbach, Railroad Engineering Department of the
Timken Company, for the development of tapered roller bearings for railroad and industrial use • 1978
Robert Puiseux,
Michelin for the development of the radial tire. • 1979
Leslie J. Clark, for his contributions to the conceptualization and initial development of the sea transport of
liquefied natural gas • 1980
William M. Allen,
Malcolm T. Stamper,
Joseph F. Sutter and
Everette L. Webb, Boeing, for the introduction of widebody commercial jet aircraft • 1981
Edward J. Wasp, for his development of long distance pipeline slurry transport of coal and other finely divided solid materials. • 1982 Jörg Brenneisen, Ehrhard Futterlieb, Joachim Körber, Edmund Müller, G. Reiner Nill, Manfred Schulz, Herbert Stemmler and Werner Teich, for their development of solid state adjustable frequency induction motor transmission for diesel and electric motor locomotives • 1983 Sir
George Edwards; General
Henri Ziegler; Sir
Stanley Hooker, (in memoriam); Sir
Archibald Russell; and
André Turcat; commemorating their outstanding international contributions to the successful introduction of commercial supersonic aircraft such as Concorde • 1984 Frederick Aronowitz, Joseph E. Killpatrick, Warren M. Macek and Theodore J. Podgorski, for the development of a ring laser gyroscopic system incorporated in a new series of commercial jetliners • 1985 Richard K. Quinn, Carlton E. Tripp and George H. Plude for numerous innovative design concepts and an unusual method of construction of the first 1,000 foot self-unloading Great Lakes vessel, the M/V
Stewart J. Cort • 1986 George W. Jeffs, Dr. William R. Lucas, Dr. George E. Mueller, George F. Page, Robert F. Thompson and John F. Yardley, for their contributions to the concept and achievement of a reusable
Space Transportation System • 1987 Harry R. Wetenkamp, for his contributions toward the development of curved plate railroad wheel designs • 1988 John Alvin Pierce, for his work on the
OMEGA Navigation System • 1989
Harold E. Froehlich,
Charles B. Momsen, Jr., and
Allyn C. Vine, for their development of the deep-diving submarine,
DSV Alvin • 1990
Claud M. Davis, Richard B. Hanrahan, John F. Keeley, and James H. Mollenauer, for their development of the Federal Aviation Administration enroute air traffic control system • 1991
Malcom Purcell McLean, for his work on intermodal containerization • 1992
Daniel K. Ludwig (in memoriam) for the development of the modern supertanker • 1993 Heinz Leiber, WolfDieter Jonner and Hans Jürgen Gerstenmeier,
Robert Bosch GmbH for the development of the
Anti-lock braking system in motor vehicles • 1994 Russell G. Altherr, for the development of a slackfree connector for articulated railroad freight cars • 1995
No award • 1996 Thomas G. Butler (in memoriam) and Richard H. MacNeal(in memoriam), for the development
NASA Structural Analysis (NASTRAN) as a working tool for
finite element computation • 1997
No award • 1998
Bradford Parkinson, for the development of the
Global Positioning System (GPS) for the precise navigation of transportation vehicles • 1999
No award • 2000 The staff of
SNCF and
Alstom between 1965 and 1981 who created the initial
TGV High Speed Rail System • 2001
No award • 2002
Raymond Pearlson, for the development of a new system for lifting ships out of the water for repair • 2003
No award • 2004
Josef Becker, for the development of the Rudderpropeller, a combined propulsion and steering system • 2005
Victor Wouk, for his development of gasoline engine-electric motor hybrid-drive systems for automobiles and his achievements in small, lightweight electric power supplies and batteries technology • 2006
Antony Jameson, for his
computational fluid dynamics in
aircraft design. • 2007 Robert F. Cook, Peter T. Mahal, Pam L. Phillips, and James C. White, for their work in developing
Engineered Materials Arresting Systems (EMAS) for airport
runway safety areas. • 2008
Thomas P. Stafford,
Glynn S. Lunney,
Aleksei A. Leonov, Konstantin D. Bushuyev, for their work on the Apollo-Soyuz mission and the Apollo-Soyuz docking interface design • 2009
Boris Popov, for the development of the ballistic parachute system allowing the safe descent of disabled aircraft • 2010
Takuma Yamaguchi, for his invention of the ARTICOUPLE to allow an articulated tug and barge (AT/B) waterborne transportation system • 2012 Zigmund Bluvband, President, ALD Group and Herbert Hecht, Chief Engineer, SoHaR Incorporated • 2013
C. Donald Bateman, for his development of Honeywell’s Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) • 2014 Alden J. "Doc" Laborde, Bruce G. Collipp and Alan C. McClure, for their technological developments in offshore oil and gas exploration and production in deep waters • 2015 Michael Sinnet and the
Boeing 787-8 development team, for their work on the Boeing 787-8 • 2016
Harri Kulovaara, for introducing developments to enhance the efficiency, safety and environmental performance of cruise ships • 2017
Bruno Murari, in recognition of his engineering achievements at
STMicroelectronics. • 2018
Panama Canal Authority, for planning and successfully managing a program to undertake and complete a massive infrastructure project, the “Expansion of the Panama Canal.” • 2019 George A. (Sandy) Thomson, in recognition of leading the innovation for water-lubricated polymer propeller shaft bearings for marine transport thereby eliminating the requirement for oil lubrication. • 2020 To Dominique Roddier, Christian Cermelli, and Alexia Aubault for the development of WindFloat, a floating foundation for offshore wind turbines. • 2021 To Michimasa Fujino in recognition of his singular achievement of research and development of new technologies for business aviation including the Over-the-Wing Engine Mount and Natural Laminar Flow airfoil, and the introduction to the market of commercial aircraft based on these technologies through the formation of HondaJet. • 2022 To Asad Madni for his work in the development of the first solid-state gyroscope and its subsequent integration into a complete automotive inertial measurement unit integrated circuit for stability control ==See also==