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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.

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Mr. Harland A. Morley

Award: Gold Medal Award
Year: 1965
Recipient:
Mr. Harland A. Morley
Reason:
For his significant contribution to naval engineering as set forth in the following CITATION:

For exceptionally outstanding contributions to the field of Naval Engineering in the development and improvement of protective coating systems for the hulls of naval ships. Over the past several years, Mr. Morley has used his superior technical knowledge of marine coatings and their application in introducing new application techniques and has played a significant role in the adoption of new materials. The use of these new materials has resulted in substantial savings in ship overhaul costs and has allowed combatant ships of the U. S. Navy to remain in service at sea for longer periods of time between dockings.

As Group Master of the Service Group, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, he has displayed outstanding qualities of dynamic leadership, technical competence, and perseverance in his tireless efforts in the program to develop for the Navy a superior epoxy coating method for the topsides of submarines and to gain acceptance of this method by demonstrated performance results. Mr. Morley has also pioneered in the application of inorganic zinc coatings for the topsides of surface ships, which has resulted in untold savings in maintenance manhours by ships' crews.

His achievements have been in keeping with the highest standards of naval engineering and the finest traditions of the master craftsmen of the United States Navy.