New award honors engineering professor

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has created a new educational award honoring Phillip S. Myers, an emeritus UW–Madison professor of mechanical engineering.

Called the Myers Award for Outstanding Student Paper, the national award recognizes the best paper submitted to SAE by a student. Papers can be done on any topic and by students anywhere in the world.

The award recognizes Myers and his wife, Jean, for their lifelong devotion to students and education. Myers is an expert on internal combustion engines, and the Myers have been longtime advocates of student involvement in SAE.

The very first award, presented in February, went to Michael Koenig and Matthew Hall of the University of Texas at Austin. Hall served as Koenig’s faculty assistant in the paper. Koenig received $2,500.