In honor of Vice Admiral E.L. Cochrane, USN, this award was instituted by the Executive Committee in 1961 to succeed The President’s Award, which was first presented in 1946.
The following rules govern:
a. a. The award will be presented to the author of the best peer-reviewed paper published by the Society from conferences, symposia, “Featured Papers”, non ship production papers of the Journal of Ship Production and Design, and non archival papers presented at the Annual Meeting. Note that ship production papers are considered for the Elmer L. Hann Award and Archival Papers are considered for the American Bureau of Shipping - Captain Joseph H. Linnard Prize
b. The title of the award is "The Vice Admiral E. L. Cochrane Award."
c. The award is a medallion suitably inscribed.
d. Eligibility for the award need not be limited to membership in the Society.
e. In the case of co-authors, each receives an award.
f. The “Featured Papers” Committee will recommend to the Awards Committee one Cochrane Award nominee, and two Honorable Mention nominees for the Cochrane Award based on their evaluation of significance of the paper’s subject, originality and technical quality.
g. The nomination will require a majority vote of the Awards Committee and approval by the Council.
h. Announcement and notification of the award will be made at the Annual Meeting. The award will be presented with suitable ceremonies at such time as the President of the Society may arrange.
i. The award may be bestowed annually but not more often.
Revised 5/2011.
Past Recipients
| Year |
Recipient |
| 1946 |
K. S. M. Davidson |
| 1947 |
Charles H. Johnson |
| 1947 |
Ralph F. Symonds & Henry O. Trowbridge |
| 1948 |
C. Richard Waller |
| 1949 |
Harold G. Acker |
| 1950 |
Arthur R. Gatewood |
| 1951 |
Mark L. Ireland, Jr., M. D. Wheeler & L. E. Spencer |
| 1952 |
J. D. VanManen & Laurens Troost |
| 1953 |
Robert P. Giblon,William Elmer, Jr. & John F. Nace |
| 1954 |
Charles D. Roach |
| 1955 |
John McDougall & Daniel T. Mallett |
| 1956 |
Laurens Troost |
| 1957 |
Harry Benford |
| 1958 |
Louis L. Shook, Jr. & Chester L. Long |
| 1959 |
J. E. McGill |
| 1960 |
Chester L. Long, John L. Stevens, Jr. & John T. Tompkins, Jr. |
| 1961 |
William E. Lehr, Jr. & Edwin L. Parker |
| 1962 |
E. Scott Dillon, Francis G. Ebel & Andrew R. Goobeck |
| 1963 |
Irving P. Vatz & Robert F. Williams, Jr. |
| 1964 |
Daniel Savitsky |
| 1965 |
Hugh Y. H. Yeh |
| 1966 |
William J. Dorman |
| 1967 |
R. L. Harrington & W. S. Vorus |
| 1968 |
D. C. Tolefson & Leonard Brand |
| 1969 |
Thomas Lamb |
| 1970 |
John P. Breslin |
| 1971 |
E. Scott Dillon |
| 1972 |
Frederic A. Thoma |
| 1973 |
John E. Ancarrow, Jr. & Roy L. Harrington |
| 1974 |
William H. Garzke, Jr., Ralph E. Johnson & Alexander C. Landsburg |
| 1975 |
Guy C. Volcy |
| 1976 |
Alexander C. Landsburg & John M. Cruikshank |
| 1977 |
Frank S. Chou |
| 1978 |
John R. Kane |
| 1979 |
Thomas N. Sanderlin ,Stuart M. Williams & Robert D. Jamieson |
| 1980 |
W. C. Cowles |
| 1981 |
Roy L. Harrington |
| 1982 |
Robert D. Tagg |
| 1983 |
Watt D. Burton, Jr, |
| 1984 |
Archibald C. Churcher, Alex Kolomojcev & Geoff Hubbard |
| 1985 |
Michael G. Parsons & Richard W. Harkins |
| 1986 |
V. Laskow, P. A. Spencer & I. M. Bayly |
| 1987 |
Christopher Cressy, Martin Fritts, John Letcher & Clay Oliver |
| 1988 |
G. Robert Lamb |
| 1989 |
David S. Greeley & John H. Cross-Whiter |
| 1990 |
Jay P. Carson & Barbara Lamb |
| 1991 |
Donald L. Blount &Louis T. Codega |
| 1992 |
Daniel T. Melitz, Eric J. Robertson & Nicholas J. Davison |
| 1993 |
John L. Allison |
| 1994 |
Henry T. Chen & Peter B. Lacey |
| 1995 |
David J. Witmer & Jack W. Lewis; |
| 1996 |
William H. Garzke, Jr., David K. Brown, Arthur D. Sandiford, John B. Woodward & Peter K. Hsu |
| 1997 |
Ou Kitamura |
| 1998 |
Roger H. Compton & Howard A. Chatterton; Jr. |
| 1999 |
Michael Dyer |
| 2000 |
Frank Dvorak, Lawrence B. Elliot, Kenneth Fox, Stanley C. Stumbo |
| 2001 |
Duncan T. MacLane |
| 2002 |
Samson C. Stevens & Michael G.Parsons |
| 2003 |
William N. France, Mark Levadou, Thomas W. Treakel, J. Randolph Paulling, R. Keith Michel, Colin Moore |
| 2004 |
Jeom Kee Paik, Jae Myung Lee, Joon Sung Hwang, Young Il Park |
| 2005 |
Alexander C. Landsburg, Roderick A. Barr, Larry L. Daggett, Wei-Yuan Hwang, Bent K. Jakobsen, Michael A. Morris, Lou C. Vest |
| 2006 |
Wilhelm Magelssen |
| 2007 |
Daniel Savitsky, Michael F. DeLorme, Raju Datla |
| 2008 |
Junbo Jia, Jonas W. Ringsberg |
| 2009 |
Vadim Belensky, Jan Otto deKat, Naoya Umeda |
| 2010 |
Yasuhira Yamada |
| 2011 |
Tin-Woo Yung, Robert E. Sandstrom, Haipeng He and Moses K. Minta
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