THE AMERICAN SOCIETY
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 RADM David P. Sargent, Jr., USN (Ret.) (right), presents the Frank G. Law Award to CAPT Hepburn |
CITATION:
Captain Rick Hepburn has been a dedicated and highly energetic leader and enthusiastic member of ASNE for three decades. As his career led him to multiple locations through the years, his path was always marked by service to the Society. He has contributed his efforts to ASNE in a wide variety of ways at both the local and national level. He has authored a number of technical papers that were published in the Naval Engineers journal or in symposium proceedings and he has often been a presenter or moderator for national symposia and local section meetings. He participated in Section leadership in several locations and he has been Chairman of the Savannah, Long Beach and Northern New England Sections. At the national level he has served as a member of the ASNE Council and he is currently the Society's senior Vice President.
Captain Hepburn initiated the national Maintenance Committee and chaired it for several years and he was recently selected to chair the newly established Programs Committee, tasked with ensuring that the Society sustains an effective agenda of timely and well supported programs on an ongoing basis. He had demonstrated his qualifications for this assignment by initiating and providing leadership for a number of ASNE symposia. He co-chaired a successful commercial maintenance symposium and provided the impetus for a subsequent symposium on designing for zero maintenance. He spearheaded a highly successful workshop on high-speed, high-performance ships and craft and he prompted the initiation of an electric machines technology conference and a symposium on electric ship reconfiguration and survivability. He has quickly taken on his new responsibilities by fostering two additional symposia with more on the way.
Action oriented with a strong bias for progress, Captain Hepburn has earned
the trust and respect of the Society for his positive, determined service to
both members and the Society as a whole. He has demonstrated long-term leadership,
selfless dedication, effective contribution and personal commitment in support
of Society interests, goals and values for thirty years. He clearly exemplifies
the highest ideals of service to the Society and he is truly most deserving
of the American Society of Naval Engineers Frank G. Law Award for 2003.