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."
Alumni Award Nomination Form and Information
2009 Benjamin G. Lamme Meritorious Achievement Medal Recipient
Burn Jeng Lin
Dr. Burn Jeng Lin received his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1963 from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. in EE in 1970 from Ohio State.
Lin is a senior director at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, renowned for
advancing the state-of-the-art in wafer processing.
Lin is considered the leading pioneer in the field of microlithography, the creation of submicron patterns on semiconductor chips. His career has been one of many “firsts.” He was the first person to create a computer program to simulate partially coherent projected images from arbitrary 2-D patterns, which led to numerous breakthroughs including the invention of exposure defocus diagrams, and the first person to present the concept of deep-UV lithography. He wrote the first article on diffraction with exposure-gap diagrams in x-ray lithography. His work is a major reason that Taiwan Semiconductor is the leader in their field.
Prior to working at TSMC, he held research positions at IBM in the T.J. Watson Research Center and General Technology Division and was president
of Linnovation, Inc. He was a recent visiting professor at National Taiwan University, and is editor in chief of the Journal of Micro/nanolithography,
MEMS, and MOEMS.
His honors and awards include: the 2009 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, induction in the National Academy of Engineering, Industrial Technology Advancement Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of China, Distinguished Optical Engineering Award from the Optical Engineering Society of R.O.C., and the first recipient of the SPIE Frits Zernike award.
The Benjamin G. Lamme Meritorious Achievement Medal Past Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Graduation Department/Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Burn Jeng Lin | EE 63, 70 |
| 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 |
