Werner Goldsmith, P.E., was one of the winners of a 2001 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award, which is given by the Berkeley Engineering Alumni Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Goldsmith is an ASME Honorary Member and an ASME Fellow. He is a graduate school professor in the mechanical engineering and bioengineering departments at Cal-Berkeley. In addition to his role as an educator, Goldsmith is a legal consultant and an internationally acclaimed and widely published authority on collisions of solid objects involving analytical, experimental and numerical investigations, with special emphasis on head and neck injury and protection, striker penetration, rock mechanics and dynamic material properties. He has been a member of ASME since 1946.

Clayton D. (Dan) Mote, Jr., P.E., president of the University of Maryland at College Park, also received a 2001 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award from the University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Engineering Alumni Society. Mote is an ASME Honorary Member and an ASME Fellow. He began his tenure as president of the University of Maryland and Glenn L. Martin Professor of Engineering after serving on the University of California, Berkeley, faculty for 31 years. Mote is internationally recognized for his research on gyroscopic systems, including high-speed translating and rotating systems like saws, computer memory disks and tapes, as well as his work on the biomechanics of skiing injury. A past recipient of ASME's Dedicated Service Award and the C.R. Richards Memorial Award, he has been a member of ASME since 1962.

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