Previous Byron Bird Award for Excellence in a
Research Publication Recipients
Call for Nominations
The Byron Bird Award for Excellence in a Research Publication was first presented in 1980. The award recipient, who must be a tenured College of Engineering faculty member, is chosen by a faculty committee. The publication may be a research paper or series of related research articles, a patent, or a textbook that has had a profound influence on research. The publication must be more than five years old, and have gained wide acceptance and been influential in the academic or industrial community.
The award is a memorial to Byron Bird. He received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Iowa State University in 1912 and a graduate degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1915. He served as a civil engineering professor at three universities and as a military officer in World Wars I and II. Though he had broad experience as a consulting engineer and as a city engineer, much of his professional career was dedicated to public service as a member of the U.S. Engineers' Office. He made major contributions to solving water supply problems related to the rapid growth of the Washington, D.C., area.
Previous Recipients of the Byron Bird Award
- 2012 Paul F. Nealey, Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker Professor
- 2011 David E. Foster, Phil and Jean Myers Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- 2010 Marc A. Anderson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 2009 Juan J. de Pablo, Howard Curler Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- 2008 Rolf D. Reitz, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- 2007 Chang-Beom Eom, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- 2006 Sanford A. Klein, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- 2005 James B. Rawlings, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- 2004 B. Ross Barmish, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 2003 James D. Callen, Kerst Professor of Engineering Physics and Physics
- 2002 James A. Dumesic, Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 2001 James E. Smith, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 2000 Thomas F. Kuech, Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1999 Raymond J. Fonck, Professor of Engineering Physics
- 1998 Bezalel C. Haimson, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- 1997 John H. Perepezko, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- 1996 Stephen M. Robinson, Professor of Industrial Engineering
- 1995 John R. Conrad, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
- 1994 Noah L. Hershkowitz, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
- 1993 David C. Larbalestier, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- 1992 David S. Malkus, Professor of Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics
- 1991 Warren E. Stewart, Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1990 George E.P. Box, Professor of Industrial Engineering
- 1989 Max G. Lagally, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- 1988 Dale F. Rudd, Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1987 W. Harmon Ray, Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1986 Roger W. Boom, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering
- 1985 John J. Uicker, Jr., Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- 1984 Y. Austin Chang, Professor of Metallurgical & Mineral Engineering
- 1983 W. Robert Marshall, Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1982 Henry H. Barschall, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
- 1981 John A. Duffie, Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1981 William A. Beckman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- 1980 Arthur S. Lodge, Professor of Engineering Mechanics