Loper Award
+Established in 2006, this fund honors Dr. Carl R. Loper, Jr. who served as an FEF Key Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for over 30 years. Dr. Loper is an Honorary Life Member of the AFS (Howard Taylor Award, Penton Gold Medal, Hoyt Memorial Lecture), a Fellow Member of the American Society for Materials, and a member of the American Welding Society (Adams Memorial Award). He has also received the Merton C. Flemings Award from the Manufacturing Processes Institute and the EJ Walsh Award from FEF.
| 2024 | Michael Jones - Georgia Southern |
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | Logan Chatman (Pittsburg State) & Hayes Pateidl (Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology) |
| 2021 | Brian Borkowski (Northern Iowa) & Michael Seitz (Cal Poly Pomona) |
| 2020 | Erik Herzog (Wisconsin-Platteville) & Mark McAllister (Northern Iowa) |
| 2019 | Andres Segura (Northern Iowa) & Ryan Williams (UAB) |
| 2018 | Thomas Houston (Tennessee Tech) & Colin Ridgeway (Ohio State) |
| 2017 | Mark Emmendorfer (Missouri Univ of Science & Technology) & Jacob Whitehead (UAB) |
| 2016 | Emily Dunn (Trine University) & Sara Karp (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
| 2015 | John Hambleton (Pittsburg State) & Seth Rachwitz (Western Michigan) |
| 2014 | Nicholas Barningham - University of Wisconsin-Platteville |
| 2013 | John Calhoun - Univ. of Alabama |
| 2012 | Shawn Moody - Pittsburg State |
| 2011 | David Hengst - Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology |
| 2010 | Spencer Nast - Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology |
| 2009 | Rose Torielli - Penn State |
| 2008 | Kevin Woodson - Purdue-Indianapolis |
| 2007 | Ryan Eller - Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology |