SAE Awards: The Mobility Industry's Highest Honors

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Recognizing mobility industry professionals, educators and students, SAE Awards represent mobility’s highest honors. The Awards program is administered by SAE’s Board of Directors and supported by a distinguished group of volunteers. 

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2025 SAE Spring Awards Ceremony

Forty+ SAE members and volunteers were recognized during the Spring 2025 SAE Awards Ceremony which was held during SAE’s WCX™ World Congress Experience in Detroit, MI.

One of the highest awards is the SAE Medal of Honor, recognizing an individual’s contributions to SAE International. Andy Jeffers earned the honor for 2025.

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SAE Service Awards:

SAE Medal of Honor

  • Dr. Jay Zhou – VP of Ford China Quality and New Model Programs, Ford Motor Company (Retired)

SAE International Cooperative Engineering Medal Honoring Arch T. Colwell

  • Francesca Margherita Favaro – Head of Safety Management and Best Practices, Waymo LLC

SAE International ESC Outstanding Achievement Award Honoring James M. Crawford 

  • Francesca Margherita Favaro – Head of Safety Management and Best Practices, Waymo LLC

Leadership Awards: 

SAE International Award for Technical and Leadership Excellence honoring Rodica Baranescu

  • (COMMERCIAL VEHICLE) Myra Blanco – Chief Growth Officer, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

  • (AERO) Melissa Bravin – Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing 

  • (AUTO) Amanda (Mandi) Damman – Executive Chief Engineer, General Motors

SAE International Award for Emerging Leadership in Mobility

  • Jacqueline Zimmy – System Owner - Hybrid Engine Stop Start, General Motors

SAE International Award for Influential Executive in Automotive honoring Henry Ford II  

  • Jim Campbell – Vice President - Performance & Motorsports Commercial Operations, General Motors

SAE International Award for Outstanding Student Leadership in STEM honoring Max Rumbaugh  

  • Bridget O'Connell – ERAU Women's Baja SAE, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

SAE International Award for an Influential Aerospace Executive Honoring the Wright Brothers

  • Ravishankar Mysore – Vice President, Engineering, Collins Aerospace (Retired)

Innovation Awards:

SAE International Award for Safety in Transportation honoring Arnold W. Siegel

  • Elham Sahraei – Associate Professor, Temple University

SAE International Humanitarian Award honoring Arnold W. Siegel  

  • Jennifer Goforth – I-CAR Board of Directors/SAE Foundation Trustee

SAE International Award for Outstanding Research in Mobility Fuels and Lubricants  

  • Yuanjiang Pei (Lead) – Aramco Americas

  • Balaji Mohan – Saudi Aramco

  • Ji-Woong Park – Lab Scientist, Aramco Americas

  • Anqi Zhang – Senior Research Engineer, Aramco Americas

  • Abdulla S. AIRamadan, Lead Lab Scientist, Aramco Americas

SAE John Johnson Medal for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines

  • Paul Chester Miles – Research Manager, Sandia National Laboratories

SAE John Johnson Paper for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines

  • Harsimran Singh (Lead) – Ph.D. Student, University of Illinois Chicago

  • Almoutazbellah Kutkut – Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, West Virginia University

  • Pinaki Pal – Principal Research Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

  • Suresh Kumar Aggarwal – University of Illinois-Chicago

  • Hailin Li – Professor, West Virginia University

SAE International Award for Student Achievement and Technical Proficiency Honoring Phil and Jean Myers

  • David Fernandez (Team Lead) – Graduate Research Assistant, Clemson University

  • Pedram MohajerAnsari – Graduate Research Assistant, Clemson University

  • Amir Salarpour – PostDoc Fellow, Clemson University

  • Mert Pese – Assistant Professor, Clemson University

SAE International Award for Quality Leadership honoring Subir Chowdhury

  • Meg Richards – Director, Service Diagnostics and Programming, General Motors

SAE International Award for Excellence in Innovation

  • Kumar Vijay Mishra – Senior Fellow, CISD, US DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory 

SAE International Sustainable Aviation Award honoring Ramesh Agarwal

  • Fabian Bauer and The Condor Team, Airbus Commercial Aircraft

SAE International Award for Computational Fluid Dynamics Honoring Ramesh Agarwal

  • George Em Kamiadakis – Professor, Brown University

SAE International Award for Motorsport Safety Honoring John Melvin

  • Thomas W. Gideon – Engineer, Motorsports Safety Consulting, LLC

SAE International Award for Propulsion Innovation Honoring Franz Pischinger

  • Michael K. Anderson – Vice President, Global Battery & Propulsion Engineering, General Motors

STEM Education Awards:

SAE International Award for Outstanding AWIM Volunteers honoring Bill Agnew 

  • Rian Johnson – Senior System Integration Engineer, Daimler Truck North America

SAE International Educational Award honoring Ralph R. Teetor  

  • Albert Patterson – Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

  • Zhenghui Sha – Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

SAE International Award for STEM Education Excellence Honoring Lloyd Reuss

  • Anitra Morin – 5th Grade Teacher, Country Place Leadership Academy

SAE International Formula SAE Grant Honoring Bill Adam

  • Formula Polytechnique of Montreal



Special thank you to our award donors: Dr. Ramesh Agarwal, Dr. Rodica Baranescu, Subir and Malini Chowdhury, Ford Motor Company, Dr. John H Johnson, Phil and Jean Myers, NASCAR, Max E. Rumbaugh, Jr., Arnold and Stephanie Siegel, and Ralph R. Teetor.