Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award

ASME Unit:	Design Engineering Division
Date Established:	2011
Achievement:	For sustained and meritorious contributions to design for manufacturing and the life cycle
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Nomination Deadline:	3/1
Form of Award:	Beveled Glass Plaque Honorarium ($1500)
Frequency of Award:	Annual
Administrative:	Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle (DFMLC)
Level of Award:	Section
Selected By:	Kos Ishii-Toshiba award selection committee (Three DFMLC executive committee members and two past winners)
Selecting Process:	Review of nomination package (a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, and minimum three letters of recommendation) and majority voting
Funding:	Kos Ishii-Toshiba funds (04-0204)
Date Created:	6/28/2010
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Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award Recipients

2011	Satyandra K. Gupta (Smith International Professor Director, Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Viterbi School of Engineering. University of Southern California)
2012	David O. Kazmer (University of Massachusetts-Lowell)
2013	Karthik Rmani (Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy), Professor of Educational Studies, College of Education (by courtesy), Purdue University)
2014	Deborah Thurston (Gutsgell Professor, Interim Department Head; Co-Director, Technology & Management, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign )
2015	Kazuhiro Saitou (Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan)
2016	Gül Kremer (Professor and C.G. “Turk” & Joyce A. Therkildsen Department Chair of Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at The Iowa State University)
2017	Peter Sandborn, Keystone Professor, Director, MTech, Mechanical Engineering, Maryland Energy Innovation Institute, Center for Risk and Reliability, University of Maryland
2018	Joshua Summers, Professor in Mechanical Engineering and named College IDEaS Professor at Clemson University, co-directs the CEDAR Group (Clemson Engineering Design Applications and Research)
2019	Harrison Kim, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
2020	Dr. Bert Bras (Brook Byers Professor and Associate Chair for Administration, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
2021	No Winner
2022	Dr. Fu Zhao, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
2023	I.S. Jawahir, Professor and James F. Hardymon Chair in Manufacturing Systems; Director of Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing