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Previous Byron Bird Award for Excellence in a Research Publication Recipients

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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