The Dean's Award for Achievement is presented each year at the SEAS
Commencement ceremony. Each year, dating back to 1978, the school gives
this, its highest honor, to someone who has made a substantial
contribution to the practice of engineering or the applied sciences and/or
has had an exceptional professional career. Quite often the recipient has
also performed outstanding service for the school or university.
2007
recipient: Mark H. Karwan, Professor and former Dean.
Past recipients:
2006
recipient: Douglas P. Taylor, President of Taylor Devices, Inc. and Tayco Developments, Inc.
2005
recipient: Steven L. Lerner, Senior Vice President and chief technology officer of Praxair
2004
recipient: George C. Lee, Samuel Capen Professor of Engineering and Dean Emeritus
2003 - Hadi Makarechian, BS CIE 1972; Chairman of the Board, Chief
Executive Officer and President of Capital Pacific Holdings, Inc.
2002 - Lawrence L. Peckham, BS IE 1969; Chairman, retired, LPA
Software/Xelus, Inc.
2001 - Henry Stone, BS ME 1949; Vice
President, retired, General Electric
2000 - Erich Bloch, BS EE
1952, ScD (Hon) 1985; Distinguished Fellow, Council on Competitveness;
Principal, Washington Advisory Group, LLC
1999 - Eli Ruckenstein,
Distinguished Professor, UB Department of Chemical Engineering
and John Zahorjan, PhD IE 1974; Adjunct Professor, UB Department of
Industrial Engineering
1998 - Hiroshi Morihara, PhD
ME 1971; Chairman and CEO, Peninsula Laboratories, Inc.; President, Via
Press, Inc.; President, CGC, Inc.
1997 - Calvin C. Chien, MS CIE
1970, PhD CIE 1974; Environmental Fellow, DuPont Company
1996 -
Anthony L. Russo, PhD ME 1969; Executive Director, Calspan-UB Research
Center (CUBRC); Vice President, Calspan Corporation's Advanced Technology
Center
1995 - Hatim A. Tyabji, MS EE 1969; Chairman, President, and
CEO, VeriFone, Inc.
1994 - Robert H. Goldsmith, BS ME 1951;
Chairman, President, and CEO, Exten Industries, Inc.
1993 - Irving
H. Shames; Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, UB SEAS
1992
- Lee H. Runk, BS IE 1961; President, Harvard Industries, Inc.
1991
- Sol W. Weller; Furnas Professor Emeritus, UB SEAS
1990 - Ray W.
Judson; President, The Parsons Corporation
1989 - Gerald D.
Albertson; Vice President, Linde Division, Union Carbide
Corporation
1988 - Henry P. Semmelhack; President, Barrister
Information Systems Corporation
1987 - H. Robert Leland; President,
Calspan Corporation
1986 - Gregory B. Jarvis, BS EE 1967; Hughes
Aircraft Company; NASA Payload Specialist; Awarded
Posthumously
1985 - Howard E. Strauss, MS ME 1954; Professor and
Associate Dean, UB SEAS
1984 - William C. Moog Jr.; Chairman of
Board and President, Moog, Inc.
1983 - Charles M. Fogel, BA PHY
1935; Professor and Director of Industrial Liaison, UB SEAS
1982 -
Martin Kasbohm; Director, Research and Development, Linde Division, Union
Carbide Corporation
1981 - James DeSerio; President, DeSerio
Engineers
1980 - Paul E. Mohn; Professor Emeritus and former Dean,
UB SEAS
1979 - Wilson Greatbatch, MS EE 1956, ScD (Hon) 1984;
President, Wilson Greatbatch, Ltd.
1978 - James W. McLernon, BS IE
1950, DocHL (Hon)1998; President, Volkswagon Manufacturing Corporation of
America
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