Leonardo da Vinci Award

Awarded for eminent achievement in the design or invention of a product which is universally recognized as an important advance in machine design.

Recipients

Year	Awardee	Affiliation	Design
1978	Richard R. Wareham
1979	Arthur L. Hubbard
1980	Henry O. Fuchs	Stanford University	Inventor of the Shot Peening Process
1981	Charles D. Bleau
1982	Joseph F. Engelberger	Unimate, Inc.	Unimate Robot
1983	L. Sigfred Linderoth, Jr.
1984	Robert C. Distin
1985	H. Grady Rylander
1986	Kenneth W. Boling	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Design of Mechanical Testing Machines
1987	Stephen C. Jacobsen	University of Utah	Utah-MIT Hand
1988	Kenneth J. Waldron	The Ohio State University	Adaptive Suspension Vehicle
1989	Dimitry G. Grabbe
1990	Victor Scheinman	Automatix, Inc.	ROBOTWORLD
1992	Stepen J. Bartholet	Odetics, Inc.	Odetics Walking Machine
1995	Robert R. Donaldson	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Large Optics Diamond Turning Machine
1996	Steven A. Velinsky	University of California	Davis Automated Crack Sealing Machine
1997	Sridhar Kota	University of Michigan	Plural Output Differential for All Wheel Drive Vehicles and Universal Grippers
1998	William C. Shaw	IMAX Corporation	IMAX Rolling Loop Motion Picture Projector
1999	David L. Trumper	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Novel magnetically levitated stages for precision positioning in applications such as photolithography and scanned probe microscopy
2000	Joel S. Spira	Lutron Electronics Company	Lighting Controls
2001	Ralph L. Barnett	Illinois Institute of Technology and Triodyne Inc.	Interlocks
2002	Paul Sheldon	Giddings & Lewis Inc.	VARIAX Milling Machine
2003	J. Edward Colgate	Northwestern University	Development & Design of Intelligent Assistive Devices
2004	Alexander S. Slocum	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Kinematic couplings
2005	Dara Sabahi, Donald  R. Sevilla, James A. Baughman, Randel A. Lindemann, Richard A. Rainen, Adam D. Steltzner, Joseph Melko, and Christopher J. Voorhees	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Mechanical design of the Mars Exploration Rover spacecraft and the Spirit and Opportunity rovers

Nominating Procedure

The ASME Design Engineering Division Honors and Awards Committee invites you to recognize and reward the excellence embodied in your friends and colleagues by nominating them for one of our divisional awards. A formal nomination package should be prepared and submitted, according to the format provided in the Nomination For ASME National Awards (doc) template.