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.
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 |