The Golden Omega Award is exclusive to the Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC). Recipients are nominated by NEMA.
Year |
Recipient |
Affiliation and Contribution |
2017 |
William (Bill) Finley |
Director of Technology & Innovation, Siemens Industry Inc. |
2015 |
Susan W. Graham |
President and CEO of ELANTAS PDG, Inc. |
2013 |
William George Hammond |
Chairman and CEO of Hammond Power Solutions Inc. |
2011 |
John W. Estey |
President and CEO of S&C Electric Company |
2009 |
Theodore M.H. Huang |
Chairman TECO Group |
2007 |
Lloyd G. Trotter |
President and CEO of GE Industrial |
2005 |
H. John Riley |
Chairman and CEO of Cooper Industries |
2003 |
Dean Kamen |
Inventor, developer of Segway™ |
2001 |
Robert C. Stempel |
Chairman of Energy Conversion Devices (formerly with GM) |
1999 |
Charles W. Denny |
Chairman, Schneider Electric North American Division |
1997 |
J.T. Battenberg III |
President, Delphi Automotive Systems of GM |
1995 |
Charles F. Knight |
Chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric Company |
1993 |
Percy Barnevik |
President and CEO of ABB |
1991 |
Allen F. Jacobson |
CEO of 3M Corporation |
1989 |
Paul W. Cook |
Chairman and CEO of Raychem Corp. |
1987 |
Dr. John Bardeen |
Nobel Prizes – transistor and superconductivity |
1985 |
Harry J. Gray |
Chairman and CEO of United Technologies Corp. |
1983 |
Dr. Joseph F. Engeberger |
Industrial robotics pioneer |
1981 |
Robert W. Galvin |
Chairman and CEO of Motorola, Inc. |
1979 |
Dr. Edwin Herbert Land |
Developer of Polaroid camera |
1977 |
William P. Lear, Sr. |
Developer of Lear jet |
1975 |
Dr. Simon Ramo |
Chairman of TRW-Fujitsu, pioneer in high technology |
1973 |
Dr. Peter Carl Goldmark |
CBS Labs president and director of research |
1971 |
David Packard |
Co-founder Hewlett-Packard, Deputy Defense Secretary |
1969 |
Dr. James R. Killian, Jr. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chairman |
1968 |
Dr. William Hayward Pickering |
Leader in rocket and missile development in U.S. |
1967 |
Dr. Maxime A. Faget |
Houston Manned Spacecraft Center |
1965 |
Dr. Charles Hard Townes |
Nobel prize for Laser-Maser Theory |
1963 |
Dr. James Alfred Van Allen |
High altitude research |
1962 |
Dr. Eric Arthur Walker |
Naval research at Harvard and Penn State |
1960 |
Dr. Mervin J. Kelly |
Bell Labs and industry research consultant |
1959 |
Admiral Hyman George Rickover |
U.S. Navy – developed first nuclear-powered submarine |