Peter Denno, of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, has been selected to be one of the recipients of this year’s Automotive Industry Action Group's Outstanding Achievement Award for his substantial contribution to and leadership of the AIAG’s Materials Off-Shore Supply Chains (MOSS) project.  The award is based on a body of work that has spanned a number of years, and represents an on-going commitment to establish a seamless, efficient, and responsible supply chain in support of the automotive industry.  AIAG is a not-for-profit organization providing a forum where automotive retailers, manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers work collaboratively to drive cost and complexity from the supply chain via global standards development and harmonized business practices.  The MOSS project is specifically designed to address grave deficiencies in the information currently used in long distance supply chains and the adverse impacts of these deficiencies on the flow of goods. Denno received his award at the Annual Awards Ceremony, September 8^th, at the Detroit Institute of the Arts. [AIAG Press Release]

During the workshop on "Modeling and Simulation for Emergency Management and Health Care Systems" held in Boston, MA on July 24-25, Charles McLean received a plaque “in recognition of your tireless efforts to promote modeling and simulation and associated standards, and your initiative for integrated simulation of health care and the improvements it will bring.”  The plaque was presented by Bill Waite, President of AEgis Technologies Group and Founder of the SimSummit Consortium.

2007 Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) Individual Achievement Award - Presented to NIST Guest Researchers Nenad Ivezic and Boonserm Kulvatunyou for their outstanding contributions to the automotive industry.  Individual Achievement Award recipients were recognized for their exceptional commitment and dedication to produce industry guidelines and international standards to reduce rework, error, and costs throughout the automotive supply chain and help sustain the growth of the industry.  The Outstanding Achievement Award is a special recognition given to AIAG volunteers who make a distinguished and recognizable contribution to AIAG programs.  AIAG is a globally recognized organization of automotive suppliers and Original Equipment Manufactures (OEMs), focusing on issues affecting the worldwide automotive supply chain.  Headquartered in the metro Detroit area, its more than 1,500 member companies include North American, European, and Asia-Pacific OEMs and suppliers to the automotive industry.  For more information on AIAG, see http://www.aiag.org/.

2007 Societ y of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Kuo K. Wang Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award - Presented to Boonserm Kulvatunyou. This award is presented annually to honor manufacturing engineers, age 35 or younger, for their contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry throughout the early stages of their careers. Established by the Society in 1979, the intent of this award is to increase recognition for young manufacturing engineers who are often overshadowed in award selections due to nominations of more seasoned engineers with longer service to the profession and/or more significant achievements. [SME Press Release]

2007 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - Presented to Ram D. Sriram. This award is to acknowledge Dr. Sriram’s exceptional technical leadership in the area of both development and application of new information technologies to the field of engineering; and his  pioneering work in the applications of artificial intelligence techniques to engineering design automation, particularly for civil and mechanical engineering applications.  Sriram’s Distributed and Integrated Collaborative Engineering Environment (DICE) project at MIT (1986-1994) was one of the first attempts in developing a set of tools and techniques for a computer-supported collaborative engineering environment.  His recent technical leadership on interoperability standards is resulting in helping the manufacturing industry achieve considerable reduction in interoperability costs.

2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc. (AISC) to be presented to Steven Fenves.  The Lifetime Achievement Award honors living individuals who have "made a difference" in AISC and the structural steel industry's success.  The award provides special recognition to individuals who have provided outstanding service over a sustained period of years to AISC and to the structural steel design/construction/academic community.  The Jury of Educator Awards selected Professor Fenves.  The award will be presented during the annual North American Steel Construction Conference in New Orleans , Louisiana , on Wednesday, April 18, 2007.

2007 International Awards & Recognition Committee of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award - Presented to Dr. Boonserm Kulvatunyou, an industrial engineer with the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division.  Dr. Kulvatunyou builds testing tools to support collaborative efforts in interoperability testing and evaluation with industry and government partners.The SME Kuo K. Wang Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award is conferred to an engineer, age 35 or younger, who has made exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry throughout the early stages of his/her career.  Kulvatunyou is one of 13 recipients who will receive the award in 2007.  The 2007 award is named in honor of Dr. Wang for his lifelong contributions to manufacturing and long-time support of SME.

2006 NIST Bronze Medal Award - Presented to Conrad Bock. Successfully integrating a range of industry agendas, Mr. Bock led the Object Management Group standardization of process modeling in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), and secured endorsement by the International Council of Systems Engineering. Executing NIST's mission to advance standards and technology, his innovative efforts significantly broadened the applicability of UML beyond object-oriented software to the domains of workflow, business modeling, and systems engineering in the service of diverse customer base. The Bronze Medal Award is the highest honorary recognition given by the Institute. The award is given for significant performance characterized by outstanding or significant contributions that have increased the efficiency and effectiveness of NIST. [photo]

2006 International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Outstanding Service Award - Presented to Conrad Bock, for his contribution to the development of the Systems Engineering Modeling Language (SysML) which has recently been adopted as an international standard by the Object Management Group.  The INCOSE award recognizes individuals who have given significant and extended effort on behalf of INCOSE and systems engineering in publications, professional liaison, and advocacy.  INCOSE is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems.  Its vision is to advance the state of the art and practice of systems engineering in industry, academia, and government by promoting interdisciplinary, scaleable approaches to produce technologically appropriate solutions that meet societal needs.

2006 American National Standards Institute Meritorious Service Award by the Board of Directors Awards Committee - Presented to Ed Barkmeyer in recognition of his many contributions to the ANSI Federation and the voluntary standardization community. Barkmeyer is one among eight Meritorious Service awards being presented at ANSI headquarters, NY this fall. He is being recognized has one who achieved many successes in developing and harmonizing standards in the field of information technology and integrating manufacturing and engineering information systems across numerous enterprises.   More information regarding other award recipients and the annual recognition, please click here.

2006 Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) Individual Achievement Award - Presented to NIST Guest Researcher Nenad Ivezic and NIST employee John Horst for their outstanding contributions to the automotive industry.  The award ceremony was held at the 20th annual AIAG Outstanding Achievement Awards Dinner at the Troy Marriott in Troy , Michigan .  Individual Achievement Award recipients were recognized for their exceptional commitment and dedication to produce industry guidelines and international standards to reduce rework, error, and costs throughout the automotive supply chain and help sustain the growth of the industry.  The Outstanding Achievement Award is a special recognition given to AIAG volunteers who make a distinguished and recognizable contribution to AIAG programs.  AIAG is a globally recognized organization of automotive suppliers and Original Equipment Manufactures (OEMs), focusing on issues affecting the worldwide automotive supply chain.  Headquartered in the metro Detroit area, its more than 1,500 member companies include North American, European, and Asia-Pacific OEMs and suppliers to the automotive industry.  For more information on AIAG, see http://www.aiag.org/. [AIAG Press Release]

2006 PDES, Inc. Bryan K. Martin Technical Excellence Award - Presented to Allison Barnard Feeney. The Bryan K. Martin Technical Excellence Award honors individuals who have made outstanding technical contributions to PDES, Inc. Ms. Allison Barnard Feeney' technical efforts and leadership in developing the STEP modular architecture guidelines, AP210, AP233, AP203 edition 2, and her focus on creating a module development infrastructure make her an outstanding candidate for this year’s award. These specifications and the STEP Module Repository infrastructure are significant technical accomplishments that are providing new capabilities and cost savings to PDES, Inc. members.[PDES, Inc. Press Release, 03/2006]

2005 DoC Silver Medal Award - Presented to Simon Frechette, Allison Barnard Feeney, and Joshua Lubell. The Silver Medal is the second highest honor awarded by the department. It is bestowed for “exceptional performance characterized by noteworthy or superlative contributions that have a direct and lasting impact within the Department. The award was presented for sustained leadership in developing and deploying STEP AP203 Edt. 2, A New Standard for Computer-Aided Design Interoperability. [photo]

2005 NIST Bronze Medal Award - Presented to Joshua Lubell, KC Morris, and Puja Goyal (Boonserm Kulvatunyou, a guest researcher here at NIST, also contributed.) The Bronze Medal Award is the highest honorary recognition given by the Institute. The award is given for significant performance characterized by outstanding or significant contributions that have increased the efficiency and effectiveness of NIST. The award was presented for building XML schemas to support multi-party collaboration work processes for the life cycle of facilities equipment. [photo]

2005 Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research - Presented to Dr. Eswaran Subrahmanian, a guest researcher here at NIST in the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, Manufacturing Systems Integration Division; working on the Manufacturing Interoperability and Manufacturing Metrology and Standards for the Health Care Enterprise Programs.  He is sharing this award with Susan Finger, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University . This award is presented each year to one or more individuals within Carnegie Mellon who have made significant contributions to systems research in areas relevant to the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems. 

2003 PDES, Inc. Brad Rigdon Technical Management Award - Presented to Simon Frechette. The PDES, Inc. Executive Board established the Brad Rigdon Technical Management Award in June 1996, in honor of Brad Rigdon, President and Chairman of the PDES, Inc. Simon Frechette received this award for oustanding technical managment on the PDES, Inc. STEP-on-the-Web project. [photo] [PDES, Inc. Press Release, 09/2003]

2002 PDES, Inc. Bryan K. Martin Technical Excellence Award - Presented to Joshua Lubell. The PDES, Inc. Executive Board established the Bryan K. Martin Technical Excellence Award in memory of Bryan K. Martin’s exceptional record of strong leadership and tireless work to achieve PDES, Inc. goals.  The Board presents this award annually to a PDES, Inc. technical resource who has demonstrated superior technical contributions to the program. Joshua Lubell recieved this award for technical work and leadership he provided to develop the STEP Modules Repository and the EXPRESS-to-XML mapping technologies. [photo] [PDES, Inc. Press Release, 03/2002]