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:

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 & 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 & 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 Hershkowitz, Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics

1993

David C. Larbalestier, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

1992

David S. Malkus, Professor of Engineering Mechanics & 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 & 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 & 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

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