Achievement award

The Auburn Engineering Achievement Award is conferred upon a living Auburn Engineering graduate who has attained an outstanding career in the field of engineering characterized by unusually high achievement.

  • The recipient shall be of unquestionable character and integrity.
  • The recipient’s achievements may include patents, inventions, unique designs, technical/professional society service and other evidence of a meritorious engineering career.
  • Engineers who have an intimate knowledge of the accomplishment(s) may substantiate the individual’s achievement of great significance.
  • Multiple awards are permitted.


2008 Raymond W. Monroe
2007 George A. Howell
2006 Linda Figg / James W. Kennedy
2005 J. Madison Hunnicutt
2004 John H. Klingelhoeffer / William E. Warnock, Jr.
2003 Richard H. McSwain / Thomas L. House
2002 John L. Junkins
2001 Russell F. Dunn / Francis Erskine White (deceased)
2000 Ralph M. Hoodless, Jr.
1999 Kilmer L. Hall
1998 Robert E. Hails / Pat Reynolds Odom
1997 T. Dwayne McCay
1996 William P. Albritton, Jr.
1995 H. Troy Nagle / M. Leroy Spearman
1994 N. Jan Davis / Rex B. Powell
1993 Kenneth J. Barr
1992 Charles H. Carlan
1991 J. Richard Cook
1990 Ernest C. Bryan
1989 James B. Saxon
1988 James C. Katechis
1987 William T. Eddins