The Benjamin G. Lamme Meritorious Achievement Medal
Benjamin G. Lamme, ME 1888, achieved international acclaim as a pioneering inventor and engineer for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company at Pittsburgh. For 21 years he served as chief engineer for Westinghouse. Among his 162 patents were new inventions on railway motors, induction motors, converters, and the developments pertaining to the first Niagara Falls power system. In his will he provided that a gold medal be presented annually to a technical graduate of his alma mater for "meritorious achievement in engineering."
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2008 Benjamin G. Lamme Meritorious Achievement Medal Recipient
Michael D. Winfield
Michael D. Winfield is a native of Grove City, Ohio. He received his bachelor of chemical engineering degree from The Ohio State University in 1962 and earned a master’s of business administration degree from the University of Chicago.
Winfield began his career at Universal Oil Products Company, the world leader in providing technology, products, and services to the oil refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries. Starting as a Development Engineer, over the next 35 years he assumed a series of positions of increasing responsibility, including Chief Technical Advisor to UOP’s customers with respect to the commissioning of UOP Process Technology, Manager of New Refinery Projects, Director of Business Development, Vice President of Engineering and Technical Services, Vice President of the Refining and Petrochemical Group, and in 1992 was named President and CEO. He has received patents for improvements in catalytic reforming, hydrocracking and fluid catalytic cracking.
The recipient of numerous awards, Winfield is a Distinguished Alumnus from Ohio State’s College of Engineering. He was also awarded the Fuel and Petrochemicals Award from AIChE and an Honorary Membership in the Instrument Society of America. He received, on behalf of UOP, the National Medal of Technology Award from the U.S. Government, the highest honor for an organization, symbolizing continuous innovation and commercialization of technology that has made a dramatic, positive impact on mankind.
Winfield has been active in technical societies such as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Petroleum Institute, Catalyst Society of America, American Chemical Society, and the National Petrochemical and Refining Association.
Winfield and his wife of 44 years, Arlene, have two sons and three daughters.
The Benjamin G. Lamme Meritorious Achievement Medal Past Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Graduation Department/Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Michael Winfield | CHE 62 |
| 2007 | Charles Martin | EngPhysics 1960 |
| 2006 | William Fillmore | ME 36 |
| 2005 | George Hoddy | EE 26 |
| 2004 | Robert Nerem | AAE 61, 64 |
| 2003 | Warren Bulman | EE 58 |
| 2002 | O. Lester Smithers | CHE 63 |
| 2001 | Daniel Kimmet | MET 71 ME 72 |
| 2000 | Robert Friedman | EE 60 |
| 1999 | Larry Hench | CER 64 |
| 1998 | Ralph Rockow | ME 58 |
| 1997 | Thomas Hanratty | CE 50 |
| 1996 | Dr. Eugene Jarrett | CHE 66, 68 |
| 1995 | Frank Schuh | CHE 65 |
| 1994 | Jason Lemon | ME 62 |
| 1993 | John Hirth | MET 59 |
| 1992 | William Lowrie | CHE 66 |
| 1991 | Marlin Thurston | EE 55 |
| 1990 | Paul Torgersen | IE 56, 59 |
| 1989 | Gary Kimmet | ME 66, 69 |
| 1988 | John Moll | Eng Phys, EE 43, 52 |
| 1987 | Robert Shurtz | MIN 37 |
| 1985 | Ted Harley | CER 43 |
| 1984 | Richard Morrow | MIN, PET 48 |
| 1983 | Harold Sorgenti | CHE 59 |
| 1982 | Cloyd Reeg | CHE 48 |
| 1981 | Sun Chun | CHE 64 |
| 1980 | Stanley Harrison | EE 58 |
| 1977 | Donald Garrett | CHE 50 |
| 1976 | Rupert Atkin | ME 41 |
| 1975 | Donald Rhodes | EE 45 |
| 1974 | John White | ME 52 |
