Performance Test Codes Medal

The Performance Test Codes Medal is awarded to an individual (or individuals in exceptional circumstances) who has made outstanding contributions to the development and promotion of ASME Performance Test Codes, including the Supplements on Instruments and Apparatus.

The medal was established to recognize the first voluntary codes and standards activity in the Society and in the United States. The codes are recognized throughout the world for their excellence, providing industry and the engineering community with the technology that promotes the philosophy of accurate and reliable performance evaluation.

The award was established in 1981 by contributions to the Performance Test Codes of the Society.

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Nomination Instructions
Nomination Tips

Form of Award:	$1000, Vermeil Medal and Certificate
Limitation(s):	None
Administrative Responsibility:	Board on Standardization & Testing
Nomination Deadline:	January 1
E-mail:	persaudl@asme.org
Awarded By:	General Awards Committee (GAC)

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Performance Test Codes Medalists

2023	Joseph A. Silvaggio, Jr.
2022	Tina L. Toburen
2021	Thomas C. Wheelock
2020	William C. Wood
2019	Steven A. Scavuzzo
2018	Michael P. McHale
2017	Thomas K. Kirkpatrick
2016	Matthew J. Dooley
2015	Thomas C. Heil
2014	W. Glenn Steele Jr.
2013	Patrick M. McHale
2012	Paul G. Albert
2011	W. Cary Campbell
2010	Gordon J. Gerber
2009	Steven P. Nuspl
2008	Joseph W. Mitlon
2006	John W. Siegmund
2005	Samuel J. Korellis
2003	Jeffrey R. Friedman
2002	John M. Burns
2001	Ronald H. Dieck
2000	John C. Westcott
1999	Roy P. Allen
1998	David R. Keyser
1997	Norman R. Deming
1996	Ronald L. Bannister
1995	Silas L. Morse
1993	Philip M. Gerhart
1992	Joseph S. Davis, Jr.
1991	Robert Jorgensen
1990	Karl G. Grothues
1989	Frederick H. Light
1988	Charles B. Scharp
1987	P.H. "Pete" Knowlton, Jr.
1986	John H. Fernandes
1985	James W. Murdock
1984	Kenneth C. Cotton
1984	William G. McLean