Draper Prize

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Named for C. Stark Draper, Massachusetts Beta '22, the world's largest engineering prize was first presented in 1989 to honor those whose engineering innovations and their reduction to practice have contributed to human welfare and freedom. Members of Tau Beta Pi among the 31 engineers who have received this biennial award, given by the National Academy of Engineering, are:
  1989 Dr. Jack S. Kilby, Illinois Alpha '47 for invention of the integrated circuit
  1991 Dr. Hans J.P. von Ohain, Ohio Eta '35 for invention of the jet aircraft engine
  1995 Dr. John R. Pierce, California Beta '33 father of communications satellite technology
  1995 Dr. Harold A. Rosen, Louisiana Beta '44 father of communications satellite technology
  1997 Dr. Vladimir Haensel, Illinois Gamma '35 developer of platinum reforming process for cleaner burning gasoline
  2001 Robert E. Kahn, New York Eta '60 co-inventor of two protocols that enable computers to communicate with each other
  2001 Leonard Kleinrock, Massachusetts Beta '62 for creating basic principles of packet switching
  2002 Robert S. Langer, New York Delta '70 for extraordinary contributions to the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems
  2005 Dr. Edward A. Miller, Maryland Beta '50 for invention of reconnaissance satellite technology
  2005 James W. Plummer, California Alpha '42 for invention of reconnaissance satellite technology
  2008 Rudolf Kalman, Massachusetts Beta '53     for the development and dissmenination of the optimal digital technique (known as the Kalman Filter) that is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health, commercial, and defense products
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