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Awards

ASME's Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Division recognizes outstanding achievements in the internal combustion engine field through its honors and awards program. Every year, ICEF hosts the Awards Dinner where we recognize these remarkable individuals. This year's awards dinner will be held on Tuesday, October 21st from 6:30 – 8:30 PM.

View more information on the ICE awards or to complete a nomination packet here. Special thanks to the numerous volunteers that serve on ICE's award committees. Without their expertise, time, and dedication, this would not be possible. Congratulations to all award recipients!

ASME Soichiro Honda Medal

The Soichiro Honda Medal Award recognizes an individual for an outstanding achievement or a series of significant engineering contributions in developing improvements in the field of personal transportation.

AWARDEE
Peter Kelly Senecal
Co-Founder
Convergent Science

ASME Internal Combustion Engine

The Internal Combustion Engine Award (ICE) recognizes eminent achievement or distinguished contribution over a substantial period of time, which may result from research, innovation, or education in advancing the art of engineering in the field of internal combustion engines; or in directing the efforts and accomplishments of those engaged in engineering practice in the design, development, application, and operation of internal combustion engines. In 1966, by bequest, the Diesel and Gas Engine Power Division established this award.

AWARDEE
Avinash Kumar Agarwal
Director and Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur /
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

ASME Dedicated Service Award

The ASME Dedicated Service Award honors unusual dedicated voluntary service to the Society marked by outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged, and committed service, devotion, enthusiasm, and faithfulness.

AWARDEE
Bradley Thomas Zigler
Ramsay Zigler Advisory LLP

ENGINE IMPACT AWARD

The ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division created this award to honor internal combustion engine related research and development that has been put into practice towards a commercial product developed by industry. This award is specifically created to recognize researchers in industry who have made tremendous contributions to the ICE community.

AWARDEE
Amer Ahmad Amer
Sustainable Transport Chief Technologist
Saudi Aramco Research And Development Center

AWARDEE
Axel zur Loye
Senior Technical Advisor – Power Systems Combustion Architect
Cummins Inc.

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE DIVISION EARLY CAREER AWARD

This award is specifically created to recognize early career researchers in academia, national labs, and industry who have made tremendous contributions to the ICE community.

AWARDEE
Pinaki Pal
Senior Research Scientist
Advanced Propulsion and Power Department
Argonne National Laboratory

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

The ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division created this award to honor loyal service, guidance, leadership, and worthy contributions to the progress of the ICE Division.

AWARDEE
Joshua Bittle
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Alabama

AWARDEE
Hunter Mack
Professor
University of Massachusetts Lowell

AWARDEE
Hailin Li
Professor
West Virginia University

The ASME ICED undergraduate student research competition is an annual event inviting undergraduate researchers that have studied in the field of internal combustion engines, emissions systems, fuels and sprays, or carbon management. Up to two winning submissions are selected to deliver their presentations to a group of leading experts in the internal combustion engine field at the ASME ICE Forward Conference.

The two selected students will receive complimentary conference registration and up to $1,500 in travel reimbursement. Past recipients have frequently forged valuable connections at the conference, which have led to career opportunities and graduate school recruitment.

Advik Luchoomun
UC Berkeley

Cole Engebretson
Marquette University

BEST 2024 ICEF CONFERENCE PAPER

WINNER: ICEF2024-140758: Improving the Predictive Capability of Empirical Heat Transfer Correlations for Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines

Stefania Esposito
University of Bath

Dom Parsons
University of Bath

Hao Yuan
University of Bath

Sam Akehurst
University of Bath

BEST PRESENTATION

WINNER: ICEF2024- 148419: Spatiotemporal Insights During Forced Dynamic Reactor Operation for Fast Light-Off and Enhanced Low-Temperature Methane Oxidation Over Pd-Based Catalysts

Patrick Lott
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

BEST STUDENT PRESENTATION

WINNER: ICEF2024- 141176: Suitable Way of Using Waste Cooking Oil in Diesel Engine

Awards

ASME SOCIETY AWARDS

ASME Soichiro Honda Medal

AWARDEE Peter Kelly Senecal Co-Founder Convergent Science

ASME Internal Combustion Engine

AWARDEE Avinash Kumar Agarwal Director and Professor Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur / Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

ASME Dedicated Service Award

AWARDEE Bradley Thomas Zigler Ramsay Zigler Advisory LLP

ASME ICE DIVISION AWARDS

ENGINE IMPACT AWARD

AWARDEE Amer Ahmad Amer Sustainable Transport Chief Technologist Saudi Aramco Research And Development Center

AWARDEE Axel zur Loye Senior Technical Advisor – Power Systems Combustion Architect Cummins Inc.

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE DIVISION EARLY CAREER AWARD

AWARDEE Pinaki Pal Senior Research Scientist Advanced Propulsion and Power Department Argonne National Laboratory

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

AWARDEE Joshua Bittle Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Alabama

AWARDEE Hunter Mack Professor University of Massachusetts Lowell

AWARDEE Hailin Li Professor West Virginia University

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION PRESENTATIONS AND LUNCH

Advik Luchoomun UC Berkeley

Cole Engebretson Marquette University

CONFERENCE AWARDS