The ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award is bestowed on individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of heat transfer through teaching, research, practice and design, or a combination of such activities.  

Each award is based on achievement through publications, patents or inventions, in an area of heat transfer or through the application of science or art of heat transfer. One award may be made annually in each of the three following categories: the science of heat transfer, the art of heat transfer, or the general subject of heat transfer.

The award was established by the Heat Transfer Division in 1959 and operated as a division award until 1974 when it was elevated to a Society award. 

This year two ME faculty members have been selected to receive awards.

Professor Costas Grigoropoulos has been selected to receive the 2007 Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the art category "for contributions to the fundamental understanding of the heat and mass transfer and phase change of laser-material interactions applied to microfabrication and microprocessing."

Professor Van P. Carey has been selected to receive the 2007 Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the science category "for seminal and sustained contributions to thermal sciences, particularly near interface microscale phenomena and transport in liquid-vapor systems; and for development of widely used monographs and textbooks on phase-change phenomena and microscale thermophysics."

The award consists of an honorarium, plaque and certificate. Formal presentation of the award is scheduled to take place at the Heat Transfer Dinner, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposiition, November 10-16, 2007 in Seattle, Washington.