Michael N. Kotzalas was selected by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers as Outstanding Young Engineer in the off-highway industry. The annual award recognizes innovation, teamwork, integrity, community involvement, and leadership in SAE activities. Kotzalas is a technical group leader for the Timken Co., working in power-transmission applications. He holds two patents for cylindrical roller bearing designs and is the co-author of the fifth edition of the engineering reference Rolling Bearing Analysis. Kotzalas, an active member of ASME's Tribology Division, has been an ASME member since 1994.

Kwun Lon Ting, an ASME Fellow, was recently named as one of two winners of Tennessee Tech University's top research honor, the 2007-2008 Caplenor Faculty Research Award. Ting, a mechanical engineering professor, has been awarded more National Science Foundation grants than any faculty member in the Tennessee Tech's history, according to the university. His N-bar Rotatability Law, also known as Ting's Theorem, is acknowledged as a landmark contribution in machine theory and is used in Norton's Design of Machinery, the most popular undergraduate machinery textbook in the United States. Ting is also one of the few top researchers in the world in curvature theory. He has published more than 130 research papers in journals and conference proceedings. He is an editor of the prestigious Journal of Mechanical Design. He has been a member of ASME since 1985.

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