Professor Yonggang Huang is selected to receive the 2010 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award

Professor Yonggang Huang is selected to receive the 2010 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award.

The Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, a joint award of Pi Tau Sigma and ASME, is presented to the engineering graduate who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering twenty years or more following graduation. Any person who, on July 1 of the year of the award, graduated twenty years or more from the regular engineering program of a recognized college or university shall be eligible for recognition.

The award, established in 1944 by Pi Tau Sigma in coordination with ASME, honors Charles Russ Richards, founder of Pi Tau Sigma at the University of Illinois, former head of mechanical engineering and dean of engineering at the University of Illinois and later president of Lehigh University. He was a member of ASME and served on its Board of Governors.

Professor Yonggang Huang was also a recepient of Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, similarly established as a joint award of Pi Tau Sigma and ASME to recognize the outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering by the enginering graduate between ten and twenty years following graduation.