1. ASHRAE Honors and Awards Committee
Honors and Awards Program

2. ASHRAE Honors and Awards Program
ASHRAE Honors and Awards Committee
Awards are conferred annually in six categories
Personal Honors
Personal Awards for General Society Activities
Personal Awards for Specific Society Activities
Paper Awards
Society Awards to Groups or Chapters
Chapter and Regional Awards
This PowerPoint presentation provides information for presentation to members, committees, chapters, and regions regarding Society Honors and Awards.
ASHRAE Honors and Awards advance the purpose of the Society by recognizing outstanding contributions to the HVAC&R industry.
Respected leaders and new professionals contribute to the advancement of HVAC&R, serve ASHRAE and its members, and participate in civic and community affairs. ASHRAE award winners exemplify the best in industry by continually bringing credit to the profession.
All relevant Instructions for the Nomination submission for Personal Honors, Personal Awards for General Society Activities and all other awards are provided at

3. Who Can Make Nominations?
Personal Honors & Awards for General Society Activities
Chapters, regions, committees or individual ASHRAE members
Personal Awards for Specific Society Activities and Society Awards to Groups or Chapters
Committee/Council sponsoring the award
Paper Awards
Committee sponsoring the award
Regional and Chapter Awards
Delegate from a candidate’s chapter at the Chapters Regional Conference (CRC)

4. Personal Honors ASHRAE Honors and Awards Program ASHRAE Hall of Fame
ASHRAE Pioneers of the Industry
F. Paul Anderson Award
Louise and Bill Holladay Distinguished Fellow Award
ASHRAE Fellow
Andrew T. Boggs Service Award
ASHRAE Award for Distinguished Public
Service
E.K. Campbell Award of Merit
Honorary Member

5. ASHRAE H&A Program Personal Honors
ASHRAE Hall of Fame
This award honors deceased members who have made milestone contributions to the growth of ASHRAE-related technology. Individuals inducted into the Hall of Fame must have been an ASHRAE member (any grade) or a member of a predecessor Society and must have shown evidence of distinction in the Society, either technically or academically.
ASHRAE Pioneers of the Industry
This award honors deceased individuals who have made milestone contributions to the growth of Air Conditioning, Heating, Refrigeration, and/or Ventilation. Individuals inducted into the Pioneers of the Industry must have shown evidence of distinction, either technically for academically.
Nomination Deadline for both: December 1

6. ASHRAE H&A Program Personal Honors
Paul Anderson Award
This award, name in honor of F. Paul Anderson, President of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, is the Society’s highest award. It honors members for notable achievement, outstanding work or service in any field of the Society.
Nomination Deadline: December 1
Louise and Bill Holladay Distinguished Fellow Award
This award honors Fellows of the Society for continuing preeminence in engineering or research work.
Nomination Deadline: May 1
Fellow
Fellow grade honors a member who has attained distinction in the arts relating to the sciences of heating, refrigeration, air conditioning, or ventilation or the allied arts and sciences, or the teaching of major courses in said arts and sciences or who by reason of invention, research, teaching, design, original work, or as an engineering executive on projects of unusual or important scope, has made substantial contribution to said arts and sciences, and has been a full grade member in good standing for at least 10 years prior to the date of election by the Board of Directors.

7. ASHRAE H&A Program Personal Honors
Andrew T. Boggs Service Award
This award , named after Andrew T. Boggs, former ASHRAE Executive Vice President, recognizes past recipients of the Exceptional Service Award for continuing, unselfish, dedicated and distinguished service to the Society.
Nomination Deadline: May 1
ASHRAE Award for Distinguished Public Service
This award recognizes ASHRAE members who have performed outstanding public service.
Nomination Deadline: December 1
Honorary Member
This award recognizes preeminent professional distinction without regard to whether the individual is or has been a member of the Society. Previous recipients include Milton Stover Eisenhower (President of KSU, PSU & JHU) and President Herbert Hoover.

8. ASHRAE H&A Program Personal Honors
E.K. Campbell Award of Merit
This award honors an individual for outstanding service and achievement in teaching and/or research in subject relating to the industry and professions represented by ASHRAE. The final candidate is recommended by the Life Members Club.

9. ASHRAE H&A Program Personal Awards
For General Society Activities
Distinguished 50 Year Member Award
Recognizes individuals who have been ASHRAE members for a minimum of fifty years, and were a past Society President, a Fellow, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, or otherwise performed outstanding service for the Society.
Exceptional Service Award
Recognizes members who have served the Society faithfully and with exemplary effort, far in excess of that required for the Distinguished Service award (45 service points are required). The individual must have been a full grade Member for a minimum of ten (10) years and a past recipient of the Distinguished Service Award.
Distinguished Service Award
Recognizes members of ASHRAE who have served the Society faithfully and with distinction on committees or otherwise given freely of their time and talent on behalf of the Society (15 service points are required).

10. ASHRAE H&A Program Personal Awards
For Specific Society Activities
Lincoln Bouillon Award
Recognizes a member who performs the most outstanding work in increasing the membership of the Society during the course of the year
William J. Collins, Jr. RP Award
Recognizes the Chapter RP Chair who excels in all activities supporting the campaign, including raising funds for all Society programs and promoting research at the chapter level.
Homer Addams Award
Recognizes a graduate student who has been engaged in an ASHRAE research project at a university that has graduate programs in the areas of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and has achieved a high standard of performance in this work
Ralph G. Nevins Physiology and Human Environment Award
Recognizes an individual under 40 year of age for significant accomplishment in the general area of man’s response to the environment.
John F. James International Award
Recognizes an ASHRAE member who has done the most to enhance the Society’s international presence or posture

11. ASHRAE H&A Program Personal Awards
For Specific Society Activities
Milton W. Garland Commemorative Refrigeration Award for Project Excellence
This award recognizes the designer and owner of a non-comfort refrigeration application that highlights innovation and/or new technologies.
Standards Achievement Award
This award recognizes excellence by an ASHRAE member in his/her volunteer service in the area of standards leadership and standards technical contributions
Dan Mills Technical Award
This Award was created to honor the memory of Dan Mills of the ASHRAE Memphis Tennessee Chapter. It recognizes the Chapter Technology Transfer Committee member who excels in promoting technical and energy activities.
Student Activities Achievement Award
This award recognizes a Chapter Student Activities Chair for service related to the goals and growth of student activities at all levels.

12. ASHRAE H&A Program Personal Awards
For Specific Society Activities
Lou Flagg Historical Award
Recognizes a Chapter Gold Ribbon Award winner for compiling information on outstanding historical projects or persons related to HVAC&R.
Chapter Program Star Award
Recognizes excellence in chapter program endeavors.
George B. Hightower Technical Achievement Award
This award recognizes excellence in volunteer service in the area of Technical Committee, Technical Group, and Technical Research Group activities excluding research and standards.
Service to ASHRAE Research Award
This award recognizes excellence in volunteer service in the area of Society research.
Environmental Health Award
This award recognizes excellence in volunteer service focused on environmental health issues.
Refrigeration Comfort Cooling Award for Project Excellence
Recognizes excellence in comfort cooling applications.

13. ASHRAE H&A Program Personal Awards
For Specific Society Activities
Refrigeration “R in ASHRAE” Award
This award recognizes exceptional performance by a Chapter Refrigeration Chair for planning activities and providing technology transfer on the subject of refrigeration.
Young Engineer in ASHRAE (YEA) Award of Individual Excellence
This award recognizes YEA member (s) for superior efforts during the preceding Society year in the promotion of the YEA Institute and representation of the 35 and under demographic of ASHRAE .
Youth Outreach Award
This award recognizes the outstanding effort of a member who actively engages a youth audience in their country, region, or local community through science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities.

14. ASHRAE H& A Program Society Awards
To Groups or Chapters
Technology Award/Award for Engineering Excellence
Recognizes successful application of innovative design which incorporate ASHRAE standards for effective energy management, indoor air quality, and mechanical design management.
Student Design Project Competition
Recognizes outstanding student design projects, promotes teamwork, and encourages students to become involved in the dynamic HVAC&R profession.
Government Activities Award
Recognizes an individual who demonstrates outstanding effort at the state, provincial, and local government level on technical issues important to ASHRAE.

15. ASHRAE H&A Program Paper Awards
Crosby Field Award
Recognizes highest ranked paper for Society year
Willis H. Carrier Award
Recognizes best paper by a member 32 years old or less
Technical Paper Award
Recognizes best technical papers presented at Society meetings
Poster Presentation Award
Recognizes best Poster Session Paper from the Annual and Winter Society Meetings
Journal Paper Award
Recognizes the best article published in the ASHRAE Journal for the year
HVAC&R Research Best Paper Award
Recognizes the best refereed paper published in the volume year of HVAC&R Research, the ASHRAE Research Journal, preceding the ASHRAE Winter Conference

16. ASHRAE H&A Program Chapter and Regional Awards
Regional Award of Merit and Chapter Service Award
Recognize activities and contributions at the regional and chapter level
Ten (10) service points are required for the Regional Award of Merit. Twelve (12) points are required for the Chapter Service Award
Nominations are made by delegate from candidate’s chapter at the Chapters Regional Conference (CRC)

17. ASHRAE Honors and Awards Program
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