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Email: asnehq@navalengineers.org

 

ASNE is the leading professional engineering society for engineers, scientists and allied professionals who conceive, design, develop, test, construct, outfit, operate and maintain complex naval and maritime ships, submarines and aircraft and their associated systems and subsystems.  ASNE also serves the educators who train the professionals, researchers who develop related technology, and students who are preparing for the profession.  Society activities provide support for the U.S. Navy; U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Marine Corps; U.S. Merchant Marine and U.S. Army.

ASNE is the seventh oldest technical society in the United States.  It was founded in 1888 by a group of naval engineering pioneers, most of them officers of the U.S. Navy's Engineering Corps, who sought a unified approach to their profession in order to make the most of new advances in technology. The purposes of ASNE are:           

  • to advance the knowledge and practice of naval engineering in public and private applications and operations,
  • to enhance the professionalism and well-being of members, and
  • to promote naval engineering as a career field.

For 125 years, the Society’s objectives have been strengthened and preserved to meet the changing needs of a time-honored profession. Today ASNE conducts a variety of technical meetings and symposia, publishes the highly regarded Naval Engineers Journal and a number of other technical proceedings and publications, and fosters professional development and technical information exchange through technical committees, local section activities and cooperative efforts with government organizations and other professional societies.

The Society's annual meeting, ASNE Day, is typically held in February of each year in the Washington, DC, area. The meeting features major addresses by high level industry and government leaders and panel discussions by leading members of the profession.  It also includes presentation and discussion of technical papers on a variety of timely naval engineering topics, presentation of the Society's prestigious annual awards and a large exposition with government and industry exhibits covering the full spectrum of naval engineering technology. ASNE Day is highlighted by the Society’s annual Honors Gala, attended by hundreds of executives and senior managers from both government and industry.

Our website is designed to not only serve our members, but also to support scholars, students and others interested in the varied field of naval engineering.  We welcome your suggestions on ways we can improve your experience. 

The Gold Medal Award, presented annually since 1958, is given to an individual who has made a significant naval engineering contribution in a particular area during the past five years.

In the field of naval engineering, the nominee must have made a most significant contribution through personal effort, or through the direction of others, during or culminating in the five-year period ending in the current year. Evidence of personal involvement shall be explicitly stated. If, for security reasons, the evidence cannot be publicly disclosed, the statement should be sufficiently specific for recognition of the accomplishment by those qualified to assess it.

PAST RECIPIENTS - ASNE GOLD MEDAL AWARD

2023

Mr. James J. Ciba, USN

2022

CAPT Vincent Skwarek, USCG

2021

2020

Mr. Charles D. Choi

CDR Michael Bosworth, USN (Ret.)

2019

Mr. John C. Wegand

2018

CAPT Mark R. Vandroff, USN

2017

Jerry S Cashman

2016

RDML James P. Downey

2015

Dr. Theodore Farabee

2014

Mr. Adrian J. Mackenna

2013

Mr. Mark Henneberger

2012

RADM Thomas J. Eccles, USN

2011

Dr. Douglass E. Post

2010

Mr. Jeffrey Hough

2009

CAPT Albert J. Grecco, USN

2008

CAPT Norbert Doerry, USN

2007

Mr. Jonathan D. Kaskin

2006

RDML Charles H. Goddard, USN

2005

Mr. Howard Fireman

2004

Dr. Stuart D. Jessup

2003

Mr. Charles G. Creedon

2002

Dr. William K. Blake

2001

CAPT Bert Marsh, USN

2000

Mr. Stephen J. Rodgers

1999

Mr. Randall H. Fortune

1998

Dr. Jeffrey E. Beach

1997

Mr. Michael J. O'Driscoll

1996

Dr. Norman L. Owsley

1995

Mr. Carl O. Brady

1994

Dr. Allan R. Somoroff

1993

William B. Morgan, Dr. Eng.

1992

R. Norris Keeler, Ph.D.

1991

CAPT Clark "Corky" Graham, USN

1990

Maurice M. Sevik, Ph.D.

1989

Mr. Clifford G. Geiger

1988

COL Eugene E. Shoults, USMC (Ret.)

1987

RADM Kenneth C. Malley, USN

1986

CAPT Millard S. Firebaugh, USN

1985

Mr. Larry J. Argiro

1984

Mr. Peter M. Palermo

1983

CAPT Charles H. Piersall, Jr., USN (Ret.)

1982

CAPT Bryce D. Inman, USN (Ret.)

1981

CAPT James W. Kehoe, Jr., USN (Ret.)

1980

CAPT Alfred Skolnick, USN

1979

CAPT Henry Cox, USN

1978

CAPT Oscar B. "OB" Nelson, USN (Ret.)

1977

RADM Elmer T. Westfall, USN (Ret.)

1976

RADM Wayne E. Meyer, USN (Ret.)

1975

Mr. James L. Mills, Jr.

1974

Mr. Donald L. Ream

1973

Mr. William M. Ellsworth

1972

CAPT Robert H. Wertheim, USN (Ret.)

1971

CDR Walter J. Eager, USN

1970

Mr. Robert A. Meyers

1969

CDR Roderick M. White, USCG (Ret.)

1968

Mr. Lynwood A. Cosby

1967

Mr. Owen H. Oakley

1966

LCDR John H. "Huntley" Boyd, Jr., USN (Ret.)

1965

Mr. Harland A. Morley

1964

Dr. Alfred H. Keil

1963

RADM Eli T. Reich, USN (Ret.)

1962

CAPT Patrick Leehey, USN (Ret.)

1961

Mr. William S. Pellini

1960

CAPT Levering Smith, USN

1959

Dr. Waldo K. Lyon

1958

Mr. Valor C. Smith