Golden Omega Award Recipients

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