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History of Awards
2011 Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr. Norm Lifshutz
Frank Tiller Award – Dr. Christophe Peuchot
Fellow Member Award - Dr. Peter Tsai
Senior Scientist Award – Dr. Ted Yang
Senior Scientist Award – Dr. Wenping Li
Young Scientist Award - Dr. Michael Doby
New Product Award –Parker Hannifin for its Parker Zander GL series
2010 Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr. George Chase
Wells Shoemaker Award – Jerry Lynch
Frank Tiller Award – Dr. Gerhard Kasper
Fellow Member Award - Dr. Wu Chen
Senior Scientist Award – Dr. Hooman Tafreshi
Young Scientist Award - Dr. Saru Dawar
New Product Award –W.L. Gore & Associates for its Turbine Filters
Engineering Merit Award – Pall Corporation for its FlexBowl™ Pressure Vessel System.
2009 Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award – Ed Gregor
Wells Shoemaker Award – Lew Osterhoudt
Frank Tiller Award – Dr. Ray Collins
Fellow Member Award - Dr. George Chase
Senior Scientist Award – Dr. Dan Japuntich
2008 Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr. Tad Jaroszczyk
Wells Shoemaker Award – Don Olds
Frank Tiller Award – Dr. Jerry Liu
Fellow Member Award - Dr. Wallace Leung
Senior Scientist Award – Dr. Pedro Bastias
New Product Award –Porex Filtration Division for their Tubular Membrane Module
Engineering Merit Award – Donaldson Company for the Torit WSO Mist Collector.
2007 Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr. Shiao-Hung Chiang
Wells Shoemaker Award – Scott Yaeger
Frank Tiller Award – Dr. K.J. Choi
Fellow Member Award - Dr. Norman Lifshutz
Senior Scientist Award – Dr. Barry M. Verdegan
Senior Scientist Award – Dr. Ali Chamkha
Young Scientist Award – Dr.-Ing. Martin J. Lehmann
New Product Award –Dana Corporation for the Multiwister Crankcase Ventilation System
Engineering Merit Award – Cummins Filtration, Inc. for their Cummins Filtration Crankcase Ventilation System
2006 Honorees
Wells Shoemaker Award – Dr. Wallace Leung
Frank Tiller Award – Dr. Tadeusz Jaroszczyk
Fellow Member Award - Dr. Tadeusz Jaroszczyk
Senior Scientist Award – Harold Anlauf, Dr. Ing.
Young Scientist Award – Dr. Benjamin Fuchs
New Product Award –Porex Corp,. Porex Filtration Division for the POREX Radial Cartridge Filter
2005 Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr. Ernest Mayer
Wells Shoemaker Award – Dr. Wu Chen
Frank Tiller Award – Dr. Karsten Keller
Senior Scientist Award – Neville Bugli
Senior Scientist Award – Dr. Daniel Tao
New Product Award – Donaldson Co., Inc. for their XLR Self-Cleaning Air Filtration System with PowerCore Media Technology for Gas Turbine Air Inlet
Engineering Merit Award – BBA Fiberweb for their Reemay Freedom™ Composite Pool & Spa Filter Media
2004 Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award – Prof. Werner Stahl
Lifetime Achievement Award – Wells Shoemaker
Frank Tiller Award – Dr. B.K. Parekh
Senior Scientist Award – Dr. Evan Koslow
New Product Award – KX Industries for their Matrikx® Microbiological Barrier Filter
Engineering Merit Award – Donaldson Co., Inc. for their PowerCore™ AirIntake System Severe Duty Filter
2003 Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award – Benjamin Y.H. Liu
Frank Tiller Award – George Chase, University of Akron
New Product Award – Baker Hughes Corp., Bird Machine Company for its Ultradry centrifuge
Engineering Merit Award – Pall Corporation for its New Magnum high capacity filtration systems
2002 Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award – Frank Tiller
Frank Tiller Award – Wu Chen, Dow Chemical Company
Senior Scientist Award – Wallace Leung, Baker Process
Wells Shoemaker Award – Kenneth Rubow
New Product Award – U.S. Filter for its Haynes HR-160 New Alloy Filtration Media
2001 Honorees
Frank Tiller Award – Richard Hogg
Fellow Member Award – Ed Gregor
Senior Scientist Award – George Chase
Senior Scientist Award – B.K. Parekh
Young Scientist Award – Chandrashekar Venkataraman
2000 Honorees
Frank Tiller Award – Mopei Shirato
Wells Shoemaker Award – Les White
Fellow Member Award – Bernie Scheiner, Ernest Mayer
Senior Scientist Award – Kyung Ju Choi
1996 Recipients
Frank Tiller Award – Ernest Mayer
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