CEE Faculty Profile

Ward O. Winer, Ph.D., P.E.

School Chair Emeritus

Honors

  1. Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of Michigan: Institute of Science & Technology (1961-1963 at Cavendish Laboratory - Cambridge University), 1961
  2. '38e Distinguished Service Award to an Outstanding Young Faculty Member of the College of Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1967
  3. Georgia Tech Faculty of the Year, Graduate Student Government, 1986
  4. ASME - Engineer of the year in Education (Atlanta Section ASME), 1986
  5. ASME - Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award (ASME & Pi Tau Sigma), 1988
  6. ASME - Fellow (1980), Life Fellow, 2001
  7. ASME - Honorary Member, 2006
  8. NASA - Certificate of Recognition, 1977
  9. AAAS - Fellow, 1988
  10. STLE - Fellow, 1992
  11. The Jacob Wallenberg Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 1983
  12. Tribology Gold Medal from the Tribology Trust of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Production Engineers, the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Department of Industry and Trade, Great Britain, 1986
  13. Boss of the Year, Cobb 20th Century Chapt-American Business Women's Assoc, 1982
  14. "Ga Tech Night - Honor Program - Ward O. Winer for 25 Years of Service to Tribology," Atlanta Section of Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, November 9, 1987
  15. National Academy of Engineering, 1988
  16. Metropolitan Atlanta Engineer of the Year in Education, 1988
  17. Engineers of Greater Atlanta, Engineer of the Year, 1989
  18. ASEE - Fellow, 2004

Awards

  1. Alumni Society Merit Award for the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, 1998
  2. The Monie A. Ferst Memorial Sigma Xi Award for Sustained Research at Ga Tech, 1975
  3. Distinguished Professor Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987
  4. Georgia Tech Human Relations Director's Award (to Woodruff School), 1991
  5. ASME - Melville Medal, 1975
  6. ASME - Centennial Medallion, 1980
  7. ASME - Best Paper Award (ASME Tribology Division), 1984, 1991
  8. ASME - Mayo D. Hersey Award, 1986
  9. NLGI - 47th Annual Meeting - Clarence E. Earle Memorial Award, 1979
  10. NLGI - Author of the Year Award, 1987
  11. STLE - International Award, 1997
  12. ASEE - Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, 1995
  13. ASEE - Donald E. Marlowe Award, 1996