Best Organizer of Symposium & Sessions Award (BOSS Awards)
| ASME Unit: | Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) |
| Date Established: | 1996 |
| Achievement: | Given to the best organizer of symposia and sessions, presented at IMECE, related to Manufacturing Engineering |
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| Nomination Deadline: | 5/1 |
| Form of Award: | Certificate |
| Frequency of Award: | Annual |
| Administrative: | Manufacturing Engineering Division |
| Level of Award: | Division |
| Selected By: | Executive Committee of MED |
| Selecting Process: | Recommendation to the Executive Committee |
| Funding: | MED Custodian Account |
| Date Created: | 11/8/2000 |
| Date Modified: | 7/13/2012 |
| Contact Name: | MSEC Technical Program Chair of MSEC for that year |
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Winners of the Best Organizer of Symposium & Sessions Award (BOSS Awards)
| 1996 | Amy J. C. Trappey, Yuchung Ho |
| 1997 | Viktor Astakhov, Perdur Subramanya |
| 1999 | Steven Y. Liang, Albert J. Shih |
| 2000 | Xin Wu, Ming F. Shi |
| 2001 | Vis Madhavan, Robin Stevenson |
| 2002 | James Stori, Michael Bieterman |
| 2006 | Shuting Lei, Wenwu Zhang |
| 2007 | Kevin Chou, Mary Kinsella |
| 2008 | Wenwu Zhang, Shuting Lei |
| 2009 | Radu Pavel, Jarred Heigel |
| 2009 | Samuel Huang |
| 2010 | Gracious Ngaile, Serhat Kaya |
| 2011 | Dr. Ihab Ragai |
| 2011 | Laine Mears, Harry Tempelman |
| 2012 | Yannis Korkolis, Edmund Chu |
| 2013 | Arif Malik, Zhichao (Charlie) Li |
| 2014 | Lijui Wang, Xun Xu and Xiaoping Yang |
| 2015 | Malik Arif, Dr. Zhichao (Chalie) Li |
| 2016 | Barbara Linke, Dr. Mark J. Jackson, Kai Cheng |
| 2017 | Xun Xu, Xi Vincent Wang, Dr. Nenad Ivezic, Dr. Yujie Chen |
| 2018 | Dr. Wayne Cai, Dr. Yongbing Li |
| 2019 | Chao Ma, John Vickers, and Jianguo Wu |
| 2020 | Ping Guo, Chandra Nath, Martin Byung-Guk Jun |
| 2021 | Wenchao Zhou Dong Lin Ho Yeung |
| 2022 | Sourabh Saha, Nilabh Roy, Bruno Azeredo |
| 2023 | Nehika Mathur, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Nancy Diaz-Elsayed |
| 2024 | Lei Chen, Chris Yuan, Alessandro Ascari, Erica Liverani, Wayne Cai |
| 2025 | Ala Qattawi, Dong Lin, Ho Yeung, Hector Siller, Elham Mirkoohi |