Honorary Member
Honorary Membership is awarded for a lifetime of service to engineering or related fields--e.g. science, research, public service. This achievement is described as "distinguished service that contributes significantly to the attainment of the goals of the engineering profession." Ranking closely with Honorary Membership is the ASME Medal which is awarded for "eminently distinguished engineering achievement."
Honorary Membership was first awarded in 1880, the founding year of the Society.
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| Form of Award: | Silver medal, certificate, and a $750 travel allowance |
| Limitation(s): | Candidates for Honorary Member must be corporate members of ASME. Up to five Honorary Members may be elected each year. |
| Administrative Responsibility: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
| Nomination Deadline: | March 1 |
| Email: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | Board of Governors |
Honorary Members
| 1880 | Horatio Allen Henry R. Worthington |
| 1882 | Daniel Kinnear Clark Rudolph J.E. Clausius Peter Cooper Otto Hallauer Gustav Adolf Hirn Alexander L. Holley Sir Edward J. Reed Franz Reuleaux Henri Adolphe-Eugene Schneider C. William Siemens Henri Tresca |
| 1884 | Johann Bauschinger Sir Frederick J. Bramwell Franz Grashof Friedrich Gustav Hermann |
| 1886 | Sir Benjamin Baker James Dredge Victor Dwelshauvers-Dery Francis A. Walker |
| 1889 | Sir John Coode Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Joseph Hirsch |
| 1890 | Charles Talbot Porter |
| 1891 | Sir Henry Bessemer Henry Léauté |
| 1894 | Benjamin Franklin Isherwood |
| 1897 | George Westinghouse |
| 1898 | William Cawthorne Unwin |
| 1900 | Gustave Canet Sir Charles Douglas Fox John Fritz Sir WIlliam Henry White |
| 1904 | Thomas Alva Edison |
| 1905 | Sir WIlliam Arrol Charles Haynes Haswell |
| 1907 | Andrew Carnegie |
| 1910 | Rear Adm. G.W. Melville |
| 1911 | Sir J.A.F. Aspinal |
| 1912 | Carl Gustaf Patrick de Laval Rudolph Diesel Anatole Mallet Oskar von Miller |
| 1913 | Capt. Charles H. Manning |
| 1914 | Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow |
| 1915 | Erasmus Darwin Leavitt |
| 1916 | Ambrose Swasey John Edson Sweet |
| 1917 | Maj.Gen. G.W. Goethals |
| 1918 | Charles M. Schwab Orville Wright |
| 1919 | Charles de Freminville Auguste C.E. Rateau |
| 1920 | Rear Adm. R.S. Griffin Robert Woolston Hunt The Honorable - Sir Charles Algernon Parsons Grande Uffiiale Ing. Pio Perrone Samuel Matthews Vauclain Right Honorable Lord Weir |
| 1921 | Marshal Ferdinand Foch Nathanael Greene Herreshoff Henry Robinson Towne |
| 1925 | Gen. W.W. Atterbury Herbert Clark Hoover Worcester Reed Warner |
| 1927 | Henry Le Chatelier |
| 1928 | Mortimer Elwyn Cooley Howard Coonley Ira N. Hollis |
| 1929 | Masawo Kamo Vis. Ei-ichi Shibusawa |
| 1930 | Elihu Thomson |
| 1931 | Calvin Winsor Rice Palmer C. Ricketts |
| 1932 | John Ripley Freeman |
| 1934 | William F. Durand David Schenk Jacobus |
| 1936 | Rear Adm. H.I. Cone Alex Dow George A. Orrok |
| 1937 | Lorenzo Allievi |
| 1938 | Maj. Gen. W.H. Tschappat |
| 1939 | Edmund Bruce Ball Dexter Simpson Kimball Charles Thomas Main Edwin Jay Prindle Henry Hague Vaughan |
| 1940 | William Abbott Robert W. Angus Arthur M. Greene, Jr. Albert Kingsbury James A. Seymour |
| 1941 | Leon Pratt Alford Clarence Decatur Howe Adm. S.M. Robinson Aurel Stodola Maj. Gen. Charles M. Wesson |
| 1942 | William L. Batt Willis H. Carrier Charles E. Ferris Jerome C. Hunsaker Sir Harry Ricardo |
| 1943 | Francis Blossom Ralph Budd Lt. Gen. A.G.L. McNaughton Edward N. Trump Roy V. Wright |
| 1944 | Charles M. Allen Maj. Gen. L. H. Campbell, Jr. Gano Dunn Vice-Adm. Emory S. Land Sir (Standen) Leonard Pearce |
| 1945 | Rear Adm. Harold G. Bowen Dugald Caleb Jackson Andrey Abraham Potter Sir William A. Stanier Wen-Hao Wong |
| 1946 | Alexander G. Christie Ralph E. Flanders Lt. Gen. W.S. Knudsen Irving E. Moultrop Lewis K. Sillcox |
| 1947 | Marquis of Aberdeen Everett G. Ackart Harvey N. Davis Lord Dudley Gordon Francis Hodgkinson Gen. George C. Marshall |
| 1948 | Carl F. Braun Lyman J. Briggs Oscar A. Leutwiler James W. Parker George I. Rockwood |
| 1949 | Alex D. Bailey Oliver V.S. Bulleid Samuel W. Duddley Roy C. Muir D. Robert Yarnall |
| 1950 | Harold V. Coes Lilliam M. Gilbreth Frederick Ljungstrom Harry M. Pflager |
| 1951 | Norris Roy Crump Robert M. Gates Lewis F. Moody Latham E. Osborne Harry A. Winne |
| 1952 | John M. Lessell Stephen P. Timoshenko |
| 1953 | Vice-Adm. Edward L. Cochrane William A. Handley Alexander C. Monteith Shepard T. Powell William F. Ryan |
| 1954 | Sir Hugh E.C. Beaver Vannevar Bush Sir Vincent de Ferranti Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Louis Giannattasio Richard Edgar Heartz Percy L. Jones Henry B. Oatley Abbott L. Penniman, Jr. Philip Sporn George L. Sullivan Charles E. Wilson |
| 1955 | Jacob Ackeret Joseph B. Armitage Detlev W. Bronk Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle Samuel B. Earle Simes T. Hoyt Ernest F. Mercier Carl G.A. Rosen Hilding V. Tornebohm Clyde E. Williams |
| 1956 | Charles W.E. Clark Willian Francis Gibbs Solomon C. Hollister |
| 1957 | E.G. Bailey John Blizard James E. Gleason Ernest L. Robinson |
| 1959 | Thomas B. Drew Adm. Ben Moreell |
| 1960 | Henry T. Heald |
| 1961 | Sanford L. Cluett Frederick H. Rolt Willis F. Thompson |
| 1962 | Clarence B. Campbell Thomas Keith Glennan |
| 1963 | Vivian Fitzgeorge Estcourt Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder |
| 1964 | Jacob P. Den Hartog Hugh L. Dryden James N. Landis Glenn B. Warren |
| 1965 | Clarence E. Davies Hans Ernst Luis Giorgi William M. Keller Reginald J.S. Pigott |
| 1966 | Orlan W. Boston Walker L. Cisler Joseph H. Keenan Alf J.R. Lysholm Sir Geoffrey I. Taylor |
| 1967 | William H. Byrne Reinout P. Kroon Carl R. Soberberg Dana Young |
| 1968 | Crosby Field Robert B. Lea Rudolph E. Peterson Hunter House |
| 1969 | William C. Foster Raymond D. Mindlin R. Thomas Sawyer James M. Todd |
| 1970 | Richard G. Folsom Martin Goland William Prager |
| 1971 | Robert A. Bowman M. Eugene Merchant Nathan M. Newmark |
| 1972 | Walter Ramberg George R. Rich Louis N. Rowley, Jr. Carl E. Tack |
| 1973 | Herbert Allen Miklós Hetényi Lord Hinton (of Bankside) Arthur M. Wahl Frank S.G. Williams |
| 1974 | George Francis Carter John Wistar Simpson |
| 1975 | Ernst R.G. Eckert George A. Hawkins Eugene W. O'Brien Stewart Way |
| 1976 | Samuel B. Batdorf Ralph M. Hardgrove Kenneth A. Roe Arthur F. Underwood |
| 1977 | Ivar Giaever Philip G. Hodge, Jr. Donald E. Marlowe Ralph A. Seban |
| 1978 | Howard W. Emmons Burgess H. Jennings |
| 1979 | H. Norman Abramson James B. Jones John E. Jonsson Morrough P. O’Brien Ronald B. Smith |
| 1980 | Gerald W. Becker Bruno A. Boley Roland A. Budenholzer Jimmy Carter Wallace Lacy Chadwick James W. Daily Branislav Djakovic Robert M. Drake, Jr. Charles W. Elston Carlo Ferrari Michael Field Sir Hugh Ford William R. Gould Serge Gratch Jost M. Haenny Shen Hong Sir Stanley Hooker Alexander Horowitz Yu-Tung Hu M.M. Khan Kankuro Kaneshige Milton C. Shaw Frank Spedding Arthur J. Stock Everett O. Waters |
| 1981 | Samuel R. Beitler Phillip Eisenberg James L. Everett, III Sydney Goldstein Sir Arnold Hall |
| 1982 | Daniel C. Drucker William Hawthorne Kenneth D. Nichols Claude Seippel |
| 1983 | Karl Bammert Iain Finnie Nicholas J. Hoff Paul M. Naghdi William T. Reid |
| 1984 | Isaac R. Caraco Kenneth R. Daniel J. George H. Thompson |
| 1985 | Ronald L. Geer Theodore H.H. Pian Raymond A.J. Snoeys |
| 1986 | Bernard Crossland Allan D. Kraus |
| 1987 | Richard J. Coar Robert Plunkett Herbert H. Richardson |
| 1988 | Stephen H. Crandall Robert H. Page Allen F. Rhodes Warren M. Rohsenow Edward A. Saibel |
| 1989 | Fred Landis Hans W. Liepmann Edward F. Obert Antoni K. Oppenheim William R. Sears |
| 1990 | William E. Cooper George Herrmann |
| 1991 | Simon Ostrach Eric Reissner George N. Sandor |
| 1992 | Richard M. Christensen Ferdinand Freudenstein Richard J. Goldstein Bernard L. Koff |
| 1993 | Joseph M. Juran Chang L. Tien |
| 1994 | T. Brooke Benjamin Allen Latham, Jr. |
| 1995 | Alan J. Chapman Thomas R. Kane Paul Leung John H. Lienhard |
| 1996 | Arthur E. Bergles Yuan-Cheng B. Fung George N. Hatsopoulos Stephen J. Kline Ascher H. Shapiro |
| 1997 | Leroy S. “Skip” Fletcher Werner Goldsmith Salomon Levy Clayton Daniel Mote, Jr. Reginald I. Vachon |
| 1998 | Frederick F. Ling Genichi Taguchi |
| 1999 | W. Wayne Allen Michael M. Carroll John Dundurs |
| 2000 | Aaron Cohen Douwe de Vries |
| 2001 | Ernest L. Daman Helmut H. Korst Henry McDonald |
| 2002 | Jan D. Achenbach Bei Tse Chao Amos E. Holt |
| 2003 | Richard Rosenberg Karl J. Springer John A. Swanson |
| 2004 | Ray M. Bowen Frank Kreith J. Tinsley Oden Donald N. Zwiep |
| 2005 | Sia Nemat-Nasser John R. Sununu Charles O. Velzy |
| 2006 | Alva L. Addy James R. Welty Ward O. Winer |
| 2007 | Avram Bar-Cohen Richard E. DeVor Bobby L. Green |
| 2008 | Robert A. Bennett Nancy D. Fitzroy |
| 2009 | David L. Belden Winfred M. Phillips Charles M. Vest William A. Weiblen |
| 2010 | William J. Adams Harry Armen Keith B. Thayer David N. Wormley Sam Y. Zamrik |
| 2011 | Adrian Bejan Joseph A. Falcon Nathan H. Hurt Junuthula N. Reddy Paul J. Torpey |
| 2012 | Yildiz Bayazitoglu Zdenek P. Bažant Vijay K. Dhir Yogesh Jaluria |
| 2013 | Ted Belytschko John Howell Said Jahanmir Sadik Kakac Arunava Majumdar |
| 2014 | Warren R. DeVries Robert E. Nickell Pol D. Spanos |
| 2015 | Romesh Batra Webb J. Marner Terry E. Shoup |
| 2016 | Cristina H. Amon Ashwani K. Gupta Shiv G. Kapoor |
| 2017 | Ramesh K. Agarwal John W. Cipolla Michael F. Modest |
| 2018 | Portonovo Ayyaswamy Robert M. Nerem Alan Needleman Frank E. Talke |
| 2019 | Bilal M. Ayyub Amir Faghri D. Yogi Goswami |
| 2020 |
Je-Chin Han Farshid Sadeghi Masayoshi Tomizuka |
| 2021 |
Yonggang Huang Marshall G. Jones John B. Kitto Jr. Hameed Metghalchi Pamela M. Norris |
| 2022 | Tsu-Wei Chou Michael F. Molnar Huseyin Sehitoglu Savio L-Y. Woo Singiresu S. Rao |
| 2023 | Dereje Agonafer Ali Erdemir Azad M. Madni Judith A. Todd Joseph J. Beaman |