Melville Medal
The Melville Medal is the highest ASME honor for the best original paper (not published elsewhere) which has been published in the ASME Transactions during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award. The paper may have more than one author, but one of the authors shall be an ASME corporate member (Fellow, Member or Associate Member). The paper shall be specifically recommended for the medal by a review committee or qualified individual.
The Melville Medal may be awarded for a paper that has been selected for some other best paper award in the Society. Thus, papers selected for special awards (Blackall, Prime Movers, Gas Turbine or Rail Transportation) or for best paper awards of professional Divisions, Sections or other ASME bodies may be considered for the Melville Medal if specifically recommended by the committee responsible for the award.
First awarded in 1927, the Melville Medal is by the bequest in 1914 of Admiral George W. Melville, Honorary Member and Eighteenth President of the Society.
| Form of Award: | $2000, bronze medal, certificate, and a $750 travel allowance |
| Limitation(s): | One author must be a Corporate Member of ASME. Best original paper (not published elsewhere) which has been published in the ASME Transactions during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award. |
| Administrative Responsiblility: | General Awards Committee (GAC) |
| Nomination Deadline: | February 1 |
| Email: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
Melville Medalists
| 2024 | R. Renee Zhao Jize Dai Lu Lu Sophie Leanza John W. Hutchinson |
| 2023 | Xue Feng Yinji Ma Heling Wang Ying Chen Hairui Wang Chen Wei Yao Zhang |
| 2022 | Glaucio H. Paulino Ke Liu Tomohiro Tachi |
| 2017 | Qiang Ma Yihui Zhang |
| 2016 | Xianbo Liu Nicholas Vlajic Xinhua Long Guang Meng Balakumar Balachandran |
| 2015 | Parnia Mohammadi Liping Liu Pradeep Sharma |
| 2013 | Ahmed E.E. Khalil Ashwani K. Gupta Kenneth M. Bryden Sang C. Lee |
| 2009 | James Armor Paul Cantin David Christensen Manuj Dhingra David Gutz Yedidia Neumeier J.V.R. Prasad Peter N. Szucs Aspi R. Wadia |
| 2006 | Raj M. Manglik Juntao Zhang |
| 2004 | Peng Zhang Yonggang Huang Huajian Gao Keh-Chih Hwang |
| 2003 | Brent F. Beacher Fredric F. Ehrich Zoltan S. Spakovszky Manuel Martinez-Sanchez Hyoun-Woo Shin Seung J. Song Albert F. Storace David C. Wisler |
| 2001 | Robert E. Kielb Josef Panovsky |
| 1999 | Aspi R. Wadia Peter N. Szucs David W. Crall |
| 1998 | David E. Halstead David W. Crall David C. Wisler Gregory J. Walker Howard P. Hodson Hyoun-Woo Shin |
| 1997 | Michael D. Buschmann Alan J. Grodzinsky |
| 1996 | Yaqi Huang David S. Rumschitzki Shu Chien Sheldon Weinbaum |
| 1995 | Flaura K. Winston Lawrence L. Thibault Edward J. Macarak |
| 1994 | Yuan-Cheng B. Fung Shu Qian Liu |
| 1993 | Stephen C. Cowin Ali M. Sadegh G. M. Luo |
| 1992 | Arunava Majumdar Bharat Bhushan |
| 1991 | Akira Sakurai Masahiro Shiotsu Koichi Hata |
| 1990 | Cheng Dong Richard Skalak Kuo-Li Paul Sung G.W. Schmid-Schoenbein Shu Chien |
| 1989 | David C. Wisler Randall C. Bauer Theodore H. Okiishi |
| 1988 | Theodore L. Bergman Frank P. Incropera Raymond Viskanta |
| 1987 | Dennis L. Siebers Robert J. Moffat Richard G. Schwind |
| 1986 | Robert W. Bjorge Peter Griffith |
| 1985 | Lung-Wen Tsai Alexander P. Morgan |
| 1984 | Michael F. Blair |
| 1983 | Albert M. C. Chan Sanjoy Banerjee |
| 1982 | Van C. Mow Steve C. Kuei W. Michael Lai Cecil G. Armstrong |
| 1981 | Kyung-Suk Kim Rodney J. Clifton |
| 1980 | Ravi Chandran John C. Chen Fred W. Staub |
| 1979 | Thomas J.R. Hughes W.K. Liu |
| 1978 | D.E. Negrelli J.R. Lloyd J.L. Novotny |
| 1977 | Eugene F. Fitcher Kenneth H. Hunt |
| 1976 | Bernard J. Hamrock Duncan Dowson |
| 1975 | David M. Sanborn A. V. Turchina Ward O. Winer |
| 1974 | V. H. Arakeri Allan J. Acosta |
| 1972 | H. W. O'Connor A. S. Weinstei |
| 1971 | Thomas Slot |
| 1970 | J William Holl A. L. Kornhauser |
| 1969 | Leon R. Glicksman |
| 1968 | Yian-Nian Chen |
| 1967 | Bernard Roth |
| 1965 | W. A. Van Der Sluys |
| 1964 | J. K. Jakobsen |
| 1963 | J. S. Ausman |
| 1962 | T. P. Goodman |
| 1961 | Otto Erich Balje |
| 1960 | William G. Steltz |
| 1959 | Stephen J. Kline |
| 1958 | Thomas P. Goodman |
| 1955 | Robert T. Knapp |
| 1954 | Edmund Sylvester |
| 1953 | Jefferson Falkner |
| 1952 | Neil P. Bailey |
| 1951 | Clayton Barnard |
| 1950 | Samuel J. Loring |
| 1948 | Reginald Gillmor |
| 1947 | Raymond Martinelli |
| 1946 | Troels Warming |
| 1945 | William J. King |
| 1944 | Ernest Robinson |
| 1942 | Kenneth Salisbury |
| 1941 | Roger V. Terry |
| 1940 | Carl A. W. Brandt |
| 1939 | Lester Goldsmith |
| 1938 | Alphonse Lipetz |
| 1937 | Alfred J. Buchi |
| 1936 | H. A. S. Howarth |
| 1935 | Oscar R. Wikander |
| 1933 | William Caldwell |
| 1931 | Arthur Grunert |
| 1930 | Herman Diederichs William Pomeroy |
| 1929 | Joseph W. Roe |
| 1927 | Leon P. Alford |